Moo Y'all
I have mixed feelings about this weeks assignment. I really enjoyed the time I spent in Zork playing. I remember my older brothers playing games like this when I was younder. I would watch them type in commands and then map out on paper where they were. It was fascinating. The hours of playing in Zork were fun. I found that for that sort of game I loved to explore the world and try to map out where I had been, like I had seen my brothers do. I found it hard to navigate the game without mapping.
LambdaMoo was a different story. I never had problems connecting with the server, but I had problems once inside the world. It took me quite a bit of time to grasp the commands. In the mean time the other people in the rooms with me laughed at me, jeered. At one time someone had mentioned that they were new (like me) and that they were a student. Someone who obviously was well known to the world said, "No one is holding class here. We're a small community that really resents untrained students being assigned to drop in." I wonder what kind of personality that person has. A killer perhaps? Or mabey a socializer that doesn't want to be interupted by newbies?! I don't know. I ran into a lot of rude people who talked back with bad language and then rooms where no one would communicate with me when it was obvious others were in the room. This was really frustrating. So, I found myself becoming more of an explorer than a socializer. I went through the gardens, the vineyard, many rooms in the house (setting off alarms too!), the forest, and even being taken into a mirror to a bar. It was fun reading details about things I found. There was more, but I won't bore you readers with the details of my explorations. I can see why somepeople don't socialize.
The social interaction in the MOO was interesting. I guess I need to spend copious amounts of time in it to really be appreciated by the other people and to begin to understand it more. Right now I am having a hard time seeing the benefits of the social interaction. Most of the people talking in the rooms I visited seemed to be talking in short hand. Not full sentences that everyone could understand. Mabey that comes with a lot more experience? The articles I read got me really excited about the possibilities for communication in a MOO. Now that I've been in one I don't share that same excitement as I did. What are some good ways to interact in the MOO that I should have employeed?
LambdaMoo was a different story. I never had problems connecting with the server, but I had problems once inside the world. It took me quite a bit of time to grasp the commands. In the mean time the other people in the rooms with me laughed at me, jeered. At one time someone had mentioned that they were new (like me) and that they were a student. Someone who obviously was well known to the world said, "No one is holding class here. We're a small community that really resents untrained students being assigned to drop in." I wonder what kind of personality that person has. A killer perhaps? Or mabey a socializer that doesn't want to be interupted by newbies?! I don't know. I ran into a lot of rude people who talked back with bad language and then rooms where no one would communicate with me when it was obvious others were in the room. This was really frustrating. So, I found myself becoming more of an explorer than a socializer. I went through the gardens, the vineyard, many rooms in the house (setting off alarms too!), the forest, and even being taken into a mirror to a bar. It was fun reading details about things I found. There was more, but I won't bore you readers with the details of my explorations. I can see why somepeople don't socialize.
The social interaction in the MOO was interesting. I guess I need to spend copious amounts of time in it to really be appreciated by the other people and to begin to understand it more. Right now I am having a hard time seeing the benefits of the social interaction. Most of the people talking in the rooms I visited seemed to be talking in short hand. Not full sentences that everyone could understand. Mabey that comes with a lot more experience? The articles I read got me really excited about the possibilities for communication in a MOO. Now that I've been in one I don't share that same excitement as I did. What are some good ways to interact in the MOO that I should have employeed?
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