The 36 Dramatic Situations

The exact amount of plots is, of course, a prime number.

Shika Senbei said:

The exact amount of plots is, of course, a prime number.

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It's threve.

Neurofizz: Sometimes the human need to characterize and categorize amounts to little more than intellectual masturbation. Whether the number of plot types can be limited to four or expanded to thirty-some is a wayward seed-toss when the variety of stories that can emerge is infinite in any and all categorizations.

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MC: Capriciously engages in intellectual masterbation, under the guise of responding thoughtfully to innocent posting. Intellectually speaking, tosses seeds "into the ring" for his own personal titillation.
Setting up the Conflict: Unwashed masses wise up and call him on it, via an online forum.
Conflict: He wants to have his cake and eat it, too. They want to string him up by his gonads. Literally.
Resolution? No, he's strung up by his gonads. Mods lock thread. Unwashed masses troll AW for other possibly titillating threads, never admitting they beat the proverbial meat while reading others' titillating posts.
Moral of the Story: 'Tis all intellectual masterbation. We don't hesitate calling others on it, but in the privacy of our own homes, we do it to ourselves.