[Encore] An interesting quote from the master himself.

[Kevin Jepson]

Good Evening

I found this quote in a paper that I am going to post at the Barn.

Food for thought on this chilly evening.

Ciao
KJ

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Pavel Curtis :
It is substantially easier for players to give themselves vivid, detailed,
and interesting descriptions... in a text-based system than in a graphics
based one. In McLuhan's terminology, this is because MUDs are a ‘cold’
medium, while more graphically-based media are ‘hot’; that is, the sensorial
parsimony of plain text tends to entice users into engaging their
imaginations to fill in missing details while, comparatively speaking, the
richness of stimuli in fancy virtual realities has an opposite tendency,
pushing users’ imaginations into a more passive role. I also find it
difficult to believe that a graphics-based system will be able to compete
with text for average users on the metric of believable detail per unit of
effort expended; this is certainly the case now and I see little reason to
believe it will change in the near future.28

Pavel Curtis, Mudding: Social Phenomena in Text-Based Virtual Realities
(Submission to the 1992 conference on Directions and Implications of
Advanced
Computing, 1992)

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