Re: the newsgroup of my dreams


Sat, 23 Sep 1995 09:58:04 +0100

Jacob Solomon Weinstein (jweinste@castor.usc.edu) wrote:

> I had a very strange dream recently.

[Snip]

> I was disappointed to discover that everybody else only wanted to talk
> about Dungeons & Dragons.
>
> The only r.a.if-er who I can remember actually appearing in the dream, by
> the way, was Dave Baggett, who turned out to be a thin-faced young man
> with sandy blond hair.
>
> What does it mean? (Aside from the fact that I've been spending to much
> time reading Usenet.)

Perhaps it was drawing attention to the fact that we mainly discuss the
technical implementation of specific features of specific authoring systems
(well, INFORM anyway), as opposed to the theoretical and artistic side of IF.
I was reading the first two or three archives of rai-f posts at gmd, and the
majority of these were long discourses on IF theory.

Why did this change? I'd like to see more of a balance between the two
aspects. Mind you, I'm as guilty as anyone of asking technical-only
questions, so this isn't a complaint. I'm just wondering. Some present-day
posters were around then (Dave Bagget, Phil Goetz). Perhaps they could
comment.

Thinking about it, though, we have maybe moved back a little to IF theory in
the last few weeks. Hmm...

-- 
Jools Arnold                                          jools@arnod.demon.co.uk