[MUD-Dev] You, the game of philosophy.

[coder at ibm.net]

On 19/11/97 at 09:49 PM, Adam Wiggins <nightfall at user1.inficad.com> said:
>[Richard Woolcock:]
>> Derrick Jones wrote:

>> This may be going a little off-topic, but if your 'puppet' can exist without
>> you, is it really a puppet?  In your mud, is your character:
>> (a) A 'mud' person, who's personality you temporarily replace with your own

>If you *replace* their personality with your own, it's not role-playing,
>which is (I thought) the whole point.  The idea is that you create a
>personality for them and then play that personality to the best of your
>abilities.

Are we really recreating the whole method acting debate in RP guise? 
Whether method acting is really acting has been debated futily for years.

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