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7580: [MUD-Dev] Re: Room descriptions

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From: "Jon A. Lambert" <jlsysinc@ix.netcom.com>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 20:08:19 -5
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Organization: Kanga.Nu
On 30 Sep 98, Nathan F Yospe wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Sep 1998, J C Lawrence wrote:
> :On Mon, 28 Sep 1998 15:32:58 -0700 (PDT) 
> :Adam Wiggins<adam@angel.com> wrote:
> 
> :> I don't think this sort of constructed world will ever be
> :> interactive in the way that I'm thinking; it will always be a
> :> sophisticated Zork spinoff, which is to say you only have the
> :> interactions which are coded by whoever created the area.
> 
> :Bingo.
> 
> Which is to say, there can't be anything more than case switching without
> a full scale simulation?
>

Even a full scale simulation is nothing more than case switching.
No?

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