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From: bdb@becker.UUCP (Bruce Becker)
Newsgroups: misc.misc,news.admin,news.groups
Subject: Re: Dedication
Message-ID: <1857@becker.UUCP>
Date: 7 Jan 90 05:15:20 GMT
References: <$`J9$$@masalla.fulcrum.bt.co.uk> <1990Jan6.184007.8142@banzai.PCC.COM>
Reply-To: bdb@becker.UUCP (Bruce Becker)
Organization: G. T. S., Toronto, Ontario
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In article <1990Jan6.184007.8142@banzai.PCC.COM> jay@banzai.PCC.COM (Jay Schuster) writes:
|igb@fulcrum.bt.co.uk (Ian G Batten) writes:
|>...flame-fests.  I have one question: what do people get out of this?
|>
|>In the 70s, they played D+D.  Now they play the net.  All the
|>words, actions and statements are really just role playing;
|>people taking big stances about worthless things.  I attack the
|>goblin.  I call Richard Sexton a rude name.  
|
|This is an *inspired* interpretation of what the net is.
|
|One, large, anarchic, Fantasy Role-Playing Game.  We can be anyone
|we want.  We can play high and mighty or small and meek.  We can
|collect brownie points from the other powers-that-be.  We can get put
|on shitlists or can gain general recognition.  We can be famous.
|
|I think I am going to view flame-fests in a very different light now.

	It would be interesting to have some kind of
	rating system, so that each can determine
	their net worth...

	...Yeah baby, right there, right in the interface,
	yeah that feels good, you got nice packets baby...

	..and there he goes down the court, he's up,
	he's just dunked T*d's head thru the hoop,
	the net hardly even quivered!, how about that
	sports fans...

	...and all you urban guerillas can replay the
	Net Offensive, pick your sides, let's go...

not just a neterosexual,
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