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Re: Watching

Postby Darien » Thu Jan 28, 2010 6:37 am

Chacal wrote:What's with kids and their short attention spans these days have you seen the new iPad? It's AWESOME!

I looked up AWESOME in Wikipedia. It had a picture of the iPad! :o
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Re: Watching

Postby ddb174 » Thu Jan 28, 2010 10:54 am

(Gmz comes back after what? a year? two years? just to say that a not-very-long post was too long? Oo Back to old times :P)

Anyway, this is one of the things I did not like about Uru: purposefully confusing truth and falsity. People would tell true stories in the cavern often, and of course there were people who would lie, but also people "in-cavern" pretending. And all this confuses some people and can result in bad feelings. Some people thought someone had actually died during the Wheely thing. Even if people can point out which things are obviously pretend and which are not, when they think about it, often they will not think about it and just have something in the back of their mind. Please don't believe a prophet invented by a corporation for a game.
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Re: Watching

Postby Justintime9 » Thu Jan 28, 2010 11:48 am

I see what you're saying there, and I agree completely. The post was meant to be written about the Watcher (IC) even though it also had OOC references. Of course I don't believe in a prophet invented by a game company, but what Cyan wrote as the watcher's prophesies rings true. Just because the Watcher is not real doesn't mean that the words he supposedly wrote are not wise, and good advice.
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Re: Watching

Postby Chacal » Thu Jan 28, 2010 10:45 pm

ddb174 wrote:Some people thought someone had actually died during the Wheely thing.


What?
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Re: Watching

Postby keiya » Thu Jan 28, 2010 11:38 pm

ddb174 wrote:Some people thought someone had actually died during the Wheely thing.

The only way I could see anyone believing that is in terms of Real Life Writes The Plot. (Warning: TVTropes link!) And in that sense, it's possible... though I don't think they'd have trouble finding a replacement puppeteer (the best term I can think of) for a character like her anyway.

Personally, though, I like the IC/OOC confusion. If I actually get confused to the point I'm worried about someone, I'll ask, but careful application of doublethink, 'believing' that it's real, for a while, is a big part of the fun for me. It's called suspension of disbelief, and Uru just encourages you to take it a little further than normal, it's by no means unique.
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Re: Watching

Postby teedyo » Fri Jan 29, 2010 9:55 am

ddb174 wrote:(Gmz comes back after what? a year? two years? just to say that a not-very-long post was too long? Oo Back to old times :P)

Ahh, but if you read it as kaelis... did; then it may well be the single, most profound statement gmz has ever made.
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Re: Watching

Postby diafero » Fri Jan 29, 2010 12:12 pm

ddb174 wrote:Some people thought someone had actually died during the Wheely thing

I never heard of anything like that... you can't do any story-telling if people take it that serious. I mean, people could also believe that things like linking could actually work, or that someone actually killed thousands of people in the cavern many of us enjoy so much. You have to assume your audience can separate story and real life.
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Re: Watching

Postby gmz1023 » Fri Jan 29, 2010 9:11 pm

teedyo wrote:
ddb174 wrote:(Gmz comes back after what? a year? two years? just to say that a not-very-long post was too long? Oo Back to old times :P)

Ahh, but if you read it as kaelis... did; then it may well be the single, most profound statement gmz has ever made.



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Re: Watching

Postby Chacal » Sat Jan 30, 2010 9:06 pm

That's pretty insulting for doorknobs.
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Re: Watching

Postby gmz1023 » Sat Jan 30, 2010 10:26 pm

Isn't it? lol.
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