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18041: Re: [MUD-Dev] Maintaining fiction.

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From: Matt Mihaly <the_logos@achaea.com>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2001 22:34:30 +0000 (GMT)
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Organization: Kanga.Nu
On Tue, 5 Jun 2001 SavantKnowsAll@cs.com wrote:
> In a message dated 6/4/01 3:57:46 PM Pacific Daylight Time, shren@io.com 
> writes:
 
>> I play a game where I can permanently lose my character.  Try not
>> to speak in such broad generalizations when they arn't true.
 
> Which game is that, if I may ask?  What are the total subscribers?
> And what is the fee?
 
> You can always point to the exception to the rule and say, "Try
> not to speak in such broad generalizations when they aren't true."
> But the exception doesn't discount the rule.

The exception does discount the rule. It turns the rule into merely
an approximation, which means you haven't delved deeply enough to
hit some sort of fundamental principle.

I agree with you on permadeath, incidentally.

--matt

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