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Adults Only for Alphaville?
In the discussion threads to a number of articles people have discussed the possibility of making Alphaville an adults-only server. I thought it might be good to have a thread dedicated just to this issue. Actually, there are two questions to consider. 1) Is it a good idea?2) Is it technologically feasible? I declare the [...]
Full StoryOf Interest & Rebuttal
Fristly, Lawmeme’s James Grimmalman has posted an Excellent discussion of the State of Play Confereance and what it’s ramifications are and may be. It is officially required reading for the lot of you. Here is a direct link to said article. For those of you interested below you will find a rebuttal to recent comments [...]
Full StoryGames, World-Games Games-in-Worlds, Worlds and Realities, Part 1
Hi everybody, sorry to break from the gossip and muck-raking but I thought I would post the first part of my latest endeavor. It’s an attempt to codify exactly what it is that we’re doing here, are we playing games? Are we building virtual worlds? Both? Neither? Any attempt to answer this crucial question involves [...]
Full StoryThe State of Play: Post 2
Sorry I’m being so slow about posting summaries of these sessions. Here it is almost a week later and I’m only up to my 2nd post. Nevertheless… Session 2 on Friday was entitled “‘Century 21′: Property, Intellectual Property and Creativity in the Virtual World.” The session included presentations by Dan Hunter, Ted Castronova, and Yochai [...]
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Most MMORPGs have some way of marking achievement (moving up through a guild or acquiring weath, for example), and TSO is no exception; the game is designed so that one can achieve both by acquiring virtual goods and currency and by attaining social status (which is indicated by posted rankings). The problem is that the [...]
Full StoryReview of On the Internet, by Hubert Dreyfus
Forthcoming in Teaching Philosophy Peter Ludlow (aka Urizenus) The first time I saw a talk by Jacques Derrida, he was expounding on a claim (which he attributed to Heidegger) that the sign of a great thinker is that he has but one thought. I think his point was that leading intellectual figures can take one [...]
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