On Mon, 23 Feb 1998, William Lessard wrote:
> Matt McLaughlin wrote:
>
> > It seems that you are wrong once again.. You might create and not just
> > edit .. but for my mud.. i strictly edit. Im not gonna go into detail as
> > to how this might be true.. lets just put it this way.. when you rewrite
> > your room stuff.. to be realistic.. and not just phoney and eat up a grip
> > of memory.. then you will see why my statement holds true.
> >
> >
> > I vote for the OLE.. online editor.
> >
> > -DarkLord
>
> Ya might want to work on your quoting of others looked at first like a blatant
> plagerism of my statement.
>
> So you edit Hmmm You ever write a room description that was original? That is
> creating. You ever make a MOB that was different from anything you ever saw?
> That is creation. I guess since the pencil and paper are invented then no one
> ever creates great stories they just edit them. At least by your definition. me
> I create, I take a blank spot and create an Atmoshpere of Imagination and
> interest.
>
>
You're all wrong! Hahahaha! You don't take a blank spot and create
anything, you take a NULL spot(or confabulated, I don't know THAT much
about UNIX(whether it NULLs out it's junk space or...confabulates it)) and
edit it! You aren't creating anything, except for perhaps in your own
mind(and that's arguable(ie:or is THAT just editing as well?)), but OLE
does nothing for that anyways. Is pen and paper creation or editing? I
certainly hope that it's not creation. I've never heard somebody say that
their characters lived on the paper, they always say that their characters
lived in their minds. Pen and paper were made as a way to express what was
already created(or edited) in their own minds.
Sorry, I was just on a role(get it, MUDs, RPG's?(oh well...)), it wasn't
meant as a, "gee that's stupid," type thing, just as a...well...you get
it.
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