[MUD-Dev] Re: Affordances and social method (Was: Re: Wire d Magazine...)

["S. Patrick Gallaty" <choke#sirius,com>]

-----Original Message-----
From: J C Lawrence <claw#under,engr.sgi.com>
To: mud-dev#kanga,nu <mud-dev#kanga,nu>
Date: Wednesday, July 29, 1998 4:53 PM
Subject: [MUD-Dev] Re: Affordances and social method (Was: Re: Wire d
Magazine...)


|On Thu, 9 Jul 1998 12:28:48 -0500
|cat <cat#bga,com> wrote:
|
|> [JCL:]

< My comment was >
|>> Dr. Cat does the extreme.

<Dr. Cat's response>

|
|> I think this perspective may be fairly typical of the people on
|> mud-dev.  It's why I feel like a kangaroo at the annual emu and
|> ostrich convention.  There's nothing wrong with being an emu or an
|> ostrich, but kangaroos don't necessarily have enough in common with
|> them to have much to talk about.
|
|> And I mean, really, you have to be really, really into your
|> ostrichness to think "oh, being featherless is some kinda extreme
|> unusual thing".


To clarify, the question that I was responding to was
"Doesn't anyone provide a 'safer' environment?" to wit I responded
that Dr. Cat does the extreme of 'safer' meaning completely
non-competitive.  I don't use the term 'violent' because the basis
of these games is not violence it is competition.

I think Dr. Cat knows better than to think that I personally am stuck in any
sort of ostrich-hood.  I do think that his point about this list being
primarily composed of competitive game designers is completely
correct, but that doesn't make him unwelcomed I would hope.