Hiding behind the technology is a sociological phenomenon. We tend to forget things like character. (Think Star Wars)
game/not game distinction is really boring.
Some things are just fun in the game, and some are fun for the subversion of the game.
The game world is as wide and varied and open as the real world--there are no illegal moves.
There is a pleasure in performing belief. There is a pleasure in wanting the game to be real--or wanting reality to be more like a game.
Watching people interact with a game in a bar is like watching people interact with a book in a bookstore--if you put Ulysses down in a bookstore, is it a failure?
Posted by at May 20, 2003 06:59 PM