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From: shren <shren@io.com>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 17:21:54 -0500 (CDT)
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Organization: Kanga.Nu
On Tue, 13 Aug 2002, Richard A. Bartle wrote:
> On 12 August 2002, Shren wrote:
>> Don't forget, however, that the virtual worlds of the Otherland
>> series literally eat the souls of children.
> No, they don't. Those "children" in the last volume are emergent
> AIs (yeah, books about virtual worlds ALWAYS have emergent
> AIs). The children whose souls were apparently being eaten
> (ie. the ones in comas) were there as a result of some major
> backlash from the telepath "operating system".
> I think it was intended to be a surprise ending, but after 5,000
> pages I was more interested in ANY ending, surprise or not!
Yes, and if you dropped the series at any point before then, you
leave thinking that VR ate the children.
--
We in the USA have plenty of freedom.
We import it from everywhere.
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