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On 19/11/97 at 09:49 PM, Adam Wiggins &lt;nightfall#user1,inficad.com&gt; said:
&gt;[Richard Woolcock:]
&gt;&gt; Derrick Jones wrote:

&gt;&gt; This may be going a little off-topic, but if your 'puppet' can exist without
&gt;&gt; you, is it really a puppet?  In your mud, is your character:
&gt;&gt; (a) A 'mud' person, who's personality you temporarily replace with your own

&gt;If you *replace* their personality with your own, it's not role-playing,
&gt;which is (I thought) the whole point.  The idea is that you create a
&gt;personality for them and then play that personality to the best of your
&gt;abilities.

Are we really recreating the whole method acting debate in RP guise? 
Whether method acting is really acting has been debated futily for years.

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<LI><strong><A NAME="00320" HREF="msg00320.html">Re: [MUD-Dev]  You, the game of philosophy.</A></strong>, 
Adam Wiggins <a href="mailto:nightfall#user1,inficad.com">nightfall#user1,inficad.com</a>, Thu 20 Nov 1997, 05:34 GMT
<LI><strong><A NAME="00326" HREF="msg00326.html">Re: [MUD-Dev]  You, the game of philosophy.</A></strong>, 
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00346" HREF="msg00346.html">Re: [MUD-Dev]  You, the game of philosophy.</A></strong>, 
Adam Wiggins <a href="mailto:nightfall#user2,inficad.com">nightfall#user2,inficad.com</a>, Sat 22 Nov 1997, 06:28 GMT
<LI><strong><A NAME="00381" HREF="msg00381.html">Re: [MUD-Dev]  You, the game of philosophy.</A></strong>, 
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Derrick Jones <a href="mailto:gunther#online1,magnus1.com">gunther#online1,magnus1.com</a>, Thu 20 Nov 1997, 08:43 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00637" HREF="msg00637.html">Re: [MUD-Dev]  You, the game of philosophy.</A></strong>, 
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00728" HREF="msg00728.html">Re: [MUD-Dev]  You, the game of philosophy.</A></strong>, 
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