Let's assume you're right, and that roleplaying is acting. The actor makes moment-to-moment decisions about his character's mental state, is fully aware of that mental state 100% of the time, and never gets contradicted within a given take (because the only thing that could contradict him, the lines and stage directions, are known to him in advance).Totally false.
Every hear an actor asked the question "what did you bring to the character?"
That is them making decision of who or what or why their character is as they are and role playing. To say actors have zero agency is to lie they have the most limited form of agency but then again when it comes to role playing you think anything that doesn't emulate a pen and paper game isn't role playing. Yet role playing isn't about rules. It is about taking on a different role than yourself and those roles can be imposed on by other people.
Often times couples role-play in bed and one person has a fantasy so they "impose" a role on their partner to role-play to fill their fantasy.
I know I know that doesn't count. Because in your imaginary world you have defined role-playing is such a manner that no DICTIONARY definition even comes close.
Hell every definition of role-play I know almost always used the word act as in act out a role. yet somehow acting isn't roleplaying.
Mass Effect doesn't meet even that standard.
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