[MUD-Dev] \"An essay on d00dism and the MMORPG\"

[Travis Casey]

Saturday, December 02, 2000, 8:36:18 PM, Lars Duening <lars at bearnip.com> wrote:
> Travis wrote:
>> Lars wrote:

>>> Therefore, if a Mud doesn't provide a linguistical/cultural 
>>> background for their races in the first place, not to mention 
>>> languages, then talking about the racial appropriateness of names in 
>>> such an environment is a joke.
>>
>>Yes, it is.  I've never said otherwise.  That's why I spoke of strong
>>RP muds -- those are the ones most likely to bother with such things
>>as linguistic consistency.  I probably should have been more explicit.

> Maybe. I stressed it because quite a lot of the 'strong RP'ers I have met in 
> my live did not really think about the background they were RPing against.

> As for the rest, I think we are in almost violent agreement :-)

Wait a minute... if we're going to be in violent agreement, I need to
put on my padding.  :-)

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