Re: Lethality of events

On May 1, 1:38 pm, Ed Chauvin IV <edcf...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Mere moments before death, "gleichman" <Fox1_217NoS...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> hastily scrawled:
>
> >There are things that are BadWrongFun in gaming.
>
> Like?

All sorts of things.

A simple example is the classic "let's rape all the characters of the
female players because it's fun". Effectively virtual abuse of other
players.

Most problems are not BadWrongFun in the sense that it's a problem of
style or mechanics, but in the sense that there is something wrong
with the person(s) playing- and either that they carry that wrongness
into or out of the game. Thus it's almost always a meta-game matter.



One is harder pressed to come up with BadWrongFun caused by mechanics
or style- or at least generally accepted rpg mechanics or styles
(although Ron Edwards claimed that brain damage can result from
playing the wrong games, and thus proved to the world who really was
brain damaged).

One could try for example to link Power Gaming or playing Evil PCs to
negative personality traits the same way one could try to link playing
Grand Thief Auto to the same, and with similar problems in the
attempt.

I do think there's something to be said for such a link, but I
couldn't really prove it- and it likely pales in comparison to other
influences or may well be an outgrowth rather than a cause. Much like
most sexual criminals are heavily into porn, but not all users of porn
are sexual criminals. Very difficult to press the case there to the
satisfaction of any not willing to decide on moral or religious
grounds.

Of course, I'd claim that it's basically impossible to decide much of
anything if moral or religious grounds are rejected :)