From: smart@mindvox.phantom.com (SmArT M0eDuMb!#)
Subject: Re: MUD
Organization: Phantom Access (tm), Mindvox BBS
Date: Sun, 5 Apr 1992 23:16:30 GMT

dead@phantom.com (Bruce Fancher) writes:

> In article <uFTRiB1w165w@mindvox.phantom.com> dfish@mindvox.phantom.com (Drow
> >
> >As my great granpappy once tole me as he set me upon his knee and
> >bounced me up and down (but that there's anuthah story).  
> >
> >"You got . . ." Oh wait, maybe I can't share this wisdom with all of you, 
> >
> >but anyway . . .
> >
> >It's a GAME . . . it is TEXT . . . it is NOT real life.  If you find 
> >yourself in a situation where you cannot discern the difference between a 
> >line of text, and reality . . . then you have a LOT of problems.  The 
> >biggest by far is probably the fact that in lieu of a real life, you 
> >spend most of your time logged into a MUD.  
> >
> >Dr. Fish would prescribe going outdoors on occasion, and perhaps spending 
> >a day or two doing something other than parking your ass in front of a 
> >monitor.
> >
> >Dr0wned F!sh, Ph.D.
> >
> >"Get a life, or perhaps lease to own!"
> 
> 	Drowned Fish, you are an uncaring and insensitive lout.  You obviously
> have never experienced the fuzziness and warmth that tiny-society brings to
> peoples of all races and creeds.  TinySex is a warm intimate and loving
> embrace of two souls trancendening their ascii streams of emotion...
> 
> 
> And if you believe that.... HAHAHAHAHA!
> Mooooooo hahahahahahaha!
> hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah
> 
> HA!
> -- 
> Phantom Access (TM) node: MindVox

 


You know, I find it quite fascinating that so many of the MindVox members 
choose to act out on this particular board.  What you deem silly, or 
choose to laugh at here, are the very topics that keep so many of your 
own members happy in Maelstrom, which correct me if I'm wrong, is 
something that is going a few steps beyond current MUD's and therefore a 
logical and technical extension of the very concepts that people are 
discussing here.

What you find so amusing, are the topics that others who do not have the 
luxury of owning their own network of NeXT's, find important to the state 
of their social interaction. 

I don't think anyone is saying that MUD's are yet equatible to real VR, 
but again, isn't that EXACTLY what the entire Maelstrom project is 
directed towards remedying?

It gets a "LITTLE" annoying to find people who take VR *very* seriously 
and in fact write their masters thesis on it (right Fish?), go onto the 
usenet and blithley act like 10 year olds, when ADMITTEDLY misguided, if 
not confused, people attempt to compare real rape to virtual rape, they 
are not starting the conversation in the hopes of turning it into one big 
joke.

When people are just plain dumb, they have an excuse.  When people are 
far from stupid, and just think it amusing to prod the confused, that's 
not very helpful. Lord knows there is enough confusion on the usenet 
without any additional help from people who KNOW BETTER.

I JUST KNOW that the minute I enter a room, there is going to be a 192nd 
level Automaton waiting to eat me for posting this.  But that's life.

Larry