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18121: RE: [MUD-Dev] off-line pk

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From: Jeremy Noetzelman <jjn@kriln.com>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 12:34:05 -0400 (EDT)
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Organization: Kanga.Nu
On Tue, 5 Jun 2001, Matt Mihaly wrote:
> On Mon, 4 Jun 2001, Freeman, Jeff wrote:

>> I think it would be more interesting if it happened the other way
>> around.  Now THAT represents a compelling gameworld: When
>> something IRL ticks you off and you get your revenge - and are
>> *satisfied* with that revenge - in VR.

> I notice that happening a lot and have for years, particularly
> among teenagers. They get in pissy little arguments outside the
> MUD and start trying to take revenge on each other in it.

Indeed ... When I was still adminning on Duris, we routinely had to
deal with people stealing their roommates characters because of some
RL slight, or former best friends getting mad at eachother and
deleting eachothers characters.  Great fun, I tell you.

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