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22167: Re: Re[2]: "Advanced" use of virtual worlds? (Re: [MUD-Dev] MMORP Gs & MUDs)

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From: Cynbe ru Taren <cynbe@muq.org>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: 02 Feb 2002 19:10:42 -0600
References: [1] [2] <-newest
Organization: Kanga.Nu
J C Lawrence <claw@kanga.nu>  writes:
 
> Perhaps a better qualifier:
 
>   You can't tell when a good roleplayer is roleplaying.  

> It should be indistinguishable, even with considerable effort,
> from, err, reality -- which seems the real brunt of RP in many
> ways: to realise a mental character/identity construct fully.

Maybe you should just call it 'acting'. :)

Seems to me much the same questions are raised with respect to
professional actors.  (Especially when they go into politics...)

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