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Jazuela · 02-28-2013, 08:27 PM

Well that's because none of those games are muds. In fact, the term mud no longer exists, it was created by some guys from Denmark who are all in their 60's now. All these games are just text games, obsolete and pointless. You should go play Ultima Online instead, that's a REAL game. Muds aren't even really games. Just call them - chat rooms with atmosphere.

Since we're diluting the meaning of terms because we don't want to be left out of the in-crowd, or because we think the RPI crowd thinks they're so special but they're really not -

I mean honestly - it's the people who have something against the RPIs that are attracting the most attention, by demanding that the RPI crowd stop calling themselves RPIs, or allowing everyone else to call themselves RPIs too.

An RPI, as stated in a MYRIAD of other threads, is nothing more or less than a text game that includes certain criteria - among which are permanent death, no global ooc channel, RP required, and around a dozen other very specific criteria. There are only 5 of these games, mostly because the vast majority of gamers have no interest in playing them. If they did, there'd probably be a lot more of them. They are ONLY of interest to a very small number of people; out of the tens of thousands of mudders on the planet earth, perhaps only a thousand of them are attracted to RPIs.

It's not because they're elite, or special, or better than anyone else. It's for the same reason there are only a very few games about outer space, or star trek - because most people just don't really care about gaming about outer space or star trek. There's nothing innately superior about either, compared to any other type of game.

So all y'all quit with the ridiculous bashing of people who try to keep the RPI label limited to the traditional meaning of RPIs. All you're doing is diluting YOUR game's place in the mudding world, and muddying up the players who are looking for RPIs - and looking for anything BUT RPIs - by insisting that your game, which isn't an RPI, is. If you keep doing that, then we might as well just all proclaim everyone's mud to be an outer space mud because technically, you access it through the internet, which is just space, which is outside your house, therefore it's outer space.

02-28-2013, 08:27 PM	#25
Jazuela Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: New England Posts: 849	Re: So what advantage does the three post rule actually offer? Well that's because none of those games are muds. In fact, the term mud no longer exists, it was created by some guys from Denmark who are all in their 60's now. All these games are just text games, obsolete and pointless. You should go play Ultima Online instead, that's a REAL game. Muds aren't even really games. Just call them - chat rooms with atmosphere. Since we're diluting the meaning of terms because we don't want to be left out of the in-crowd, or because we think the RPI crowd thinks they're so special but they're really not - I mean honestly - it's the people who have something against the RPIs that are attracting the most attention, by demanding that the RPI crowd stop calling themselves RPIs, or allowing everyone else to call themselves RPIs too. An RPI, as stated in a MYRIAD of other threads, is nothing more or less than a text game that includes certain criteria - among which are permanent death, no global ooc channel, RP required, and around a dozen other very specific criteria. There are only 5 of these games, mostly because the vast majority of gamers have no interest in playing them. If they did, there'd probably be a lot more of them. They are ONLY of interest to a very small number of people; out of the tens of thousands of mudders on the planet earth, perhaps only a thousand of them are attracted to RPIs. It's not because they're elite, or special, or better than anyone else. It's for the same reason there are only a very few games about outer space, or star trek - because most people just don't really care about gaming about outer space or star trek. There's nothing innately superior about either, compared to any other type of game. So all y'all quit with the ridiculous bashing of people who try to keep the RPI label limited to the traditional meaning of RPIs. All you're doing is diluting YOUR game's place in the mudding world, and muddying up the players who are looking for RPIs - and looking for anything BUT RPIs - by insisting that your game, which isn't an RPI, is. If you keep doing that, then we might as well just all proclaim everyone's mud to be an outer space mud because technically, you access it through the internet, which is just space, which is outside your house, therefore it's outer space.