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From: Holly Sommer <hsommer@micro.ti.com>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1999 13:30:04 -0600 (CST)
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Organization: Kanga.Nu
On Wed, 10 Nov 1999, J C Lawrence wrote:
> On Tue, 9 Nov 1999 12:49:59 -0600 (CST)
> Holly Sommer <hsommer@micro.ti.com> wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 8 Nov 1999, Matthew Mihaly wrote:
> >> This logic fails, I think, when applied to obnoxious ooc jerks,
> >> of which there is no equivalent in real life communities.
>
> > Don't be too sure of this -- I remember some friends who had
> > friends in SCA, and they *never* came OOC, any time they hung out
> > with us. That's pretty obnoxious.
>
> This also relies on making the distinction between OOC and IC,
> something I do not do in my own games or gaming. WYSIWYG.
Exactly. I don't do that, either -- I'm no roleplayer -- which is why I
said I had conversations with the SCAers, but that it was a maddening
process. At any rate, my point was that "obnoxious ooc jerks" are not
missing from RL communities.
-Holly
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