Valadeza Anubis: QUESTION FROM: Gwyneth Llewelyn: Q: Do you think people express themselves more through text-based communication, as oposed to a visual/audio experience? Richard Bartle: the reason people in game-like worlds engage in pointless activities is to get, er, point I can explain why
Valadeza Anubis: question that keeps driving me insane is ...how that might apply to "why do people in VWs engage in so much repetitive and sometimes pointless tasks in them?" (i.e. level grinding in MUDs and MMORPGs, club dancing in SL...) SNOOPYbrown Zamboni: Didn't mean anything like th
Richard Bartle: Look, graphics are newbie-friendly. if you want newbies, you gotta have graphics[,,,] Graphics are easy to assess quickly, but more superficial. Text is harder to get into but can give greater immersion Some people prefer one, some people prefer the other [,,,] So: newbies prefer gra
Richard Bartle: of course there are. if you're blind, you can't see a visual emote it's just an interface issue though I suspect that the difference here comes down to one's view of embodiment, the avatar-as-self, and the distinction between game worlds and social worlds. They looked friendly enough
The public policy agenda seems to be to conflate certain groups of people who self identify as a community with virtue in order to resist the demonisation of these groups - which is all well and good. I suspect that the difference here comes down to one's view of embodiment, the avatar-as-self, and
What struck me immediately about this were the implicitly normative assumptions suddenly being loaded into the idea of Community. In the interests of full and partial disclosure, readers should note that this is a heavily edited version of the transcript. I've gotten it down from 53 pages to 12. Bec
"The recent terrorist events were not committed by any community" Yes, it may be that an Asian internet cafe culture presents a particularly volatile mixture. Perhaps that is less relevant. In the end however we're still talking degrees of separation. The question is how to insert the spac
It was reported earlier this month that the Chinese Government imposed new regulations banning minors under 18 from engaging in online games based on Player Killing (PK). I suspect that the difference here comes down to one's view of embodiment, the avatar-as-self, and the distinction between game w
It was reported earlier this month that the Chinese Government imposed new regulations banning minors under 18 from engaging in online games based on Player Killing (PK). I suspect that the difference here comes down to one's view of embodiment, the avatar-as-self, and the distinction between game w
Doing research on other issues, I stumbled across two interesting state criminal statutes. Permit these a broad interpretation and then apply them to Julian's Bone Crusher theft (described here, discussed by Dan and I here) -- would the statutes criminalize the theft of a virtual item with the inten