mud

From: bc@FCCN01.FCCN.PT (Beatriz Carmo/Luis Sequeira)

Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1992 08:51:24 +0000

jblonon@midway.ecn.uoknor.edu (Jason B Lonon) writes:

>I'm sure I am missing the point.. but my question is why go to all this
>trouble for a PBM game through internet, when there are literally 100's
>of MUDS scattered throughout the net.

Hmmm... is there really an issue here? What I mean is: I don't like
playing chess, I prefer XConq, why don't you chess players just play
XConq if it's more fun?

Everyone likes this and that game more than others! Isn't that
reasonable? I mean, why bother to post on rec.games.pbm if you hate
PBM's and love MUDs?

I admit the first game I installed on my site was TinyMUD. I loved it,
and still do. However, all my other players deserted the game - now
I'm playing by myself. No much fun here. But if I had fanatic players
here, I'm sure I'd continue to play MUD. But this doesn't mean I'll
quit playing PBMs too. Or XConq. They are different games, you see. If
I want player-to-player interaction with text, I play MUDs. If I want
strategy games on real-time, I play XConq. If I want strategy games
*without* real-time, I play PBMs. If I want to ose on the 5th turn, I
play chess.

This is like the old question about: why bother to program in Fortran,
if C is so wonderful? Well, why indeed? I hate Fortran and turn green
when I see some of its lines - but, all in all, both are compiled to
assembler, aren't they? And (on my site) Fortran even compiles better
and faster than C... so, why do I stick with C?

Because I *like* C!

So simple. So, JB Lonon, if you *really* love MUDs and hate PBMs, get
out of this newsgroup! What are you doing here?? Isn't rec.games.mud
not enough for you?

And forget about all those arguments as
"I-like-MUDs-'coz-they're-real-time-and-free" or
"but-PBEMs-are-free-too-and-they-are-more-fun",
"no-MUDs-are-more-fun,-PBEMs-suck", "no-MUDs-suck-PBEMs-are-great!"!

You can't force everyone to like what *you* like. Arguments are
unnecessary here. This is just a question of personal taste, and not
something you can argue about.

If there are still more replies to JB Lonon's post, I'll start a
discussion about how I hate Duelmasters. I've never played it, of
course; but it's *really* tiresome to skim through news just to find
one article of interest. No, it's just DM, DM, DM...

Anybody cares to discuss this? :-)

- Luis Sequeira

P. S. Ok, I *won't* discuss Duelmasters. It surely looks like a
fantastic game. What about creating a new newsgroup just for DM...?