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From: jwtlai@watcgl.waterloo.edu (Jim W Lai)
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Subject: Re: Reference to MUD newsgroup (Was Re: Virtual Reality)
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In article <11599@milton.u.washington.edu> andrew@calvin.doc.ca
(Andrew Patrick) writes:
>I think D&D has told us what people like.  Who would have thought that
>people would pay for an nearly-empty box containing a very small
>booklet telling you how to sit and imagine your someplace else.

Television has offered non-interactive virtual worlds of nearly-empty
content.  Or did you mean adolescent power-fantasy?

>Andrew Patrick, Ph.D.       Department of Communications, Ottawa, CANADA
>               andrew@calvin.doc.CA    andrew@doccrc.BITNET
>        HDTV:  higher resolution, improved colour, wider screen,
>            "sit-com" reruns.  What's wrong with this picture?

And even worse, game show reruns.  The Wheel of Fear--er, Fortune in HDTV?