I have many critics. Critics are helpful, wonderful creatures who produce as much pleasure as ire, partly because they provide amusement as often as commentary. Normally I don't respond to the more vocally invective ones, but I'm making an exception for "videogames bitch-site" Remedial Waste. They offer the Remedial Lexicon, a list of "unsound videogame terminology." It's mostly vituperation sans cleverness, with the obvious exception of this gem:
Bogostese: (pron. Bog-ost-eez) po-faced highbrow bullshit, beloved by Gamasutra, and invented by soi-disant videogame “academics” to describe parts of games that could be understood perfectly well by a six year-old: “narratology”, for example means “plot” (or studying it), and “procedural rhetoric” means “making your point using a videogame”. Named after the arch-obscurantist ludo-philosophe Ian Bogost, who is gaming’s answer to Jacques fucking Derrida.
I could point out the erroneous claims, such as the fact that narratology is a term of Todorov's in widespread use, or that my Gamasutra articles are easily the least effective example of esotericism in all of my writing, but what's the fun in that? At the very least, my posting of this should prove that I can't be called po-faced! All your obscurantism is belong to us!