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Multi User Shared Hallucinating

Time after time

Saturday, July 24, 2004

The Magic Club gets lost in the future effect.

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My world as a MUSH

Monday, July 5, 2004

Actually, if my world was one, I’d be making a different character quite a while ago.

It does look like it has seen better days. I need more communication, and different kinds of it, but there’s nobody suitable around, just the same old people. Moreover, those that I would like to converse to are never around, and those that I wouldn’t shuffle away anyway.

Have you ever woken up in the middle of the night and suddenly decided to take a stroll? Empty streets and dead city, right? Out of the rhythms of the others and into another, empty world.

But what if I yell so loud that I wake up the neighbourhood?…

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Merry go round.

Tuesday, April 6, 2004

Does a merry-go-round usually rotate clockwise or counterclockwise? The one in Sailor Moon Live Action is counterclockwise. The one in Shoujo Kakumei Utena is clockwise. The last real one I’ve seen seems to have been counterclockwise, but I’m not sure — that was quite a while ago.

Suppose you imagine a giant wheel, travelling forward at great speed, and yourself, travelling parallel to it, very close, almost touching the rotating side. Which side of the wheel will you be on, right or left? Why?

This has some serious connotations to the phenomenon of isotropic roleplaying space¹ but I’m not yet sure what they are.

This could be vitally important.

P.S. This phrase is getting to become a habit. “It’s top priority!”

Whenever two people roleplay a scene in a text environment like a MUSH, they will almost always imagine their relative positions in space to be the same, and envision themselves looking in the same direction. This gets particularily troublesome if they roleplay something involving complex motion, because eventually two mental images become incompatible.↩