MUDs (Multi-User Dungeons)

Originally posted by NoEarthlyReason
I recently studied these forerunners to MMORPGs (such as World of Warcraft) and virtual words (such as Second Life, Habbo and Club Penguin). In particular I read quite a bit about Habitat, the MUD that ran on the Commodore 64 and was sometimes called a Multiple Undergraduate Destroyer, for obvious reasons.

Are there any people here who played Habi ...[text shortened]... t don't want to share it in the public forums send me a PM and I will give you my email address.

No, Habitat was WAY before my time.

Originally posted by Suzianne
You can't handle the truth.

I'm ready to swap pix, sweetie <3

Originally posted by josephw
The truth is Seitse spends a lot of time alone. 😉

You make it sound as if it would be a bad thing, boyo.

I get it: you're terrified to be alone with your thoughts and feelings.

Some of us matured time ago and are perfectly fine with solitude, though.

Originally posted by Seitse
You make it sound as if it would be a bad thing, boyo.

I get it: you're terrified to be alone with your thoughts and feelings.

Some of us matured time ago and are perfectly fine with solitude, though.

You're never alone when you have an imaginary friend.
Thank god for that!

Originally posted by wolfgang59
imaginary friend.

I never thought of calling that the several voices in my head.

Thanks! 🙂

Originally posted by Suzianne
No, Habitat was WAY before my time.

What about the MMOs you play? Would be interesting to hear about your experiences 🙂

Originally posted by Seitse
You make it sound as if it would be a bad thing, boyo.

I get it: you're terrified to be alone with your thoughts and feelings.

Some of us matured time ago and are perfectly fine with solitude, though.

I love solitude. I was just jerking your chain old boy. 😉

Do you want to know what really terrifies me? It's not solitude or being alone with my thoughts. That's a pleasure really. What really terrifies me is being alone when I'm alone.

Do you understand what I mean?

Originally posted by josephw
I love solitude. I was just jerking your chain old boy. 😉

Do you want to know what really terrifies me? It's not solitude or being alone with my thoughts. That's a pleasure really. What really terrifies me is being alone when I'm alone.

Do you understand what I mean?

No, sorry, I've always been mentally healthy, baruch HaShem.

But you got my moral support, ol' chum. Hang in there, ok?

Originally posted by Seitse
No, sorry, I've always been mentally healthy, baruch HaShem.

But you got my moral support, ol' chum. Hang in there, ok?

Thank God for that. Baruch HaShem.

Are you saying that it is mentally unhealthy, or unhealthy mentally, to believe we are not alone, that there is one who made us and can be with us filling the void in our being that only He can fill?

I think it's mentally unhealthy to have the idealistic illusion that one can be self sustaining. We stand alone unless we are in union with our maker. Without our maker's life sustaining support we fall irretrievably. 😉

Originally posted by josephw
Thank God for that. Baruch HaShem.

Are you saying that it is mentally unhealthy, or unhealthy mentally, to believe we are not alone, that there is one who made us and can be with us filling the void in our being that only He can fill?

I think it's mentally unhealthy to have the idealistic illusion that one can be self sustaining. We stand alone unless ...[text shortened]... e in union with our maker. Without our maker's life sustaining support we fall irretrievably. 😉

It's mentally unhealthy to believe that we are and ought to be
alone, free and on our path to become heroes.

It's called objectivism and it is a mental disease spread by the bite of
the Ayn Rand bug. Yikes!

Originally posted by Suzianne
And.... so??

What's your point? Do you have one?

Short memory span? Damaged goods ring a bell?

Originally posted by Seitse
It's mentally unhealthy to [b]believe that we are and ought to be
alone, free and on our path to become heroes.

It's called objectivism and it is a mental disease spread by the bite of
the Ayn Rand bug. Yikes![/b]

Yes, the mental egoism of our time.

Best to just live one's life and not put a whole lot of analysis into it.

Originally posted by Kegge
Short memory span? Damaged goods ring a bell?

Are you talking to me?

I've never been called 'damaged'...

Originally posted by Suzianne
Are you talking to me?

I've never been called 'damaged'...

You have been called damaged goods, by me. Alzheimer kicking in early?

Originally posted by NoEarthlyReason
What about the MMOs you play? Would be interesting to hear about your experiences 🙂

Not sure you wanna hear about it, and not sure I wanna tell it, at least not in public, and certainly not within Google's earshot.