[Encore] An interesting quote from the master himself.

[Ron Broglio]

Hi Kevin,
Thanks for this. There is a similar sentiment in a recent article:
Steve Jones and Neil Fraistat, “The MOO as Arcade: Minimalism,  
Immersion, and Literary Interpretation," Text Technology, 13.2 (2004  
[2005]). [http://texttechnology.mcmaster.ca/]


Ron


On Jan 9, 2007, at 11:13 PM, Kevin Jepson wrote:

> 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
>
> =====
> 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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