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28713: RE: [MUD-Dev] Removing access to entertainment

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From: "Michael Sellers" <mike@onlinealchemy.com>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2003 11:02:29 -0600
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Organization: Kanga.Nu
Matt wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Nov 2003, Amanda Walker wrote:
>> On Nov 19, 2003, at 6:16 PM, apollyon . wrote:

>>> As others have stated, games are about fairly and equitably
>>> overcoming a challenge.

>> Nonsense.  Multiplayer games are about storytelling and building
>> communities through shared experience.

> [Muds] are not generally about storytelling: They're generally
> about achieving mechanics.

And so we argue about the nature of the elephant, each revealing our
own biases in the process.

Mike Sellers
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