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Re: LEGOFan.net - central community run hub for all areas of the LEGO community.
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lugnet.general
Date: 
Fri, 13 Feb 2004 01:03:05 GMT
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Bruce Schlickbernd <corsair@schlickbernd.org> wrote:
> > Sure. And worse. Like I said, *BB isn't very nice.
> And like I said, I disagree (but at least we agree on the boring part).  :-)

Hey, if you like boring, that's fine with me. To each his own, and all.


> > > Text adventures died, is all that I can say. :-)
> > Now there's a non sequitur.
> What part of "boring" didn't you parse? :-)
> I shall be more forceful in my comparison, Maximum Borosity. (all those
> who never saw the phrase "maximum verbosity" are left wondering at this
> conversation)

So, basically, you think BB style forums will die out? Or do you mean that
both BB and Lugnet will be replaced by the futuristic VR chatrooms I
mentioned?


> Oh, alright - text adventures gave way to graphic adventures.  Time
> marches on. Visually boring is left along the way side. It's happened
> before - it just struck me as to the similiarity of your comments to the
> old text/graphic adventure debate.

But there isn't an analogue to the graphical adventure in anything we
talked about. Unless you meant Lugnet, and I don't think you did.

--
Matthew Miller           mattdm@mattdm.org        <http://www.mattdm.org/>
Boston University Linux      ------>                <http://linux.bu.edu/>



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  Re: LEGOFan.net - central community run hub for all areas of the LEGO community.
 
(...) You seem confused - I was refering to Lugnet's visual appearance. (...) Yup, confused. Sorry if I wasn't clear along the way. I meant Lugnet was a step up visually from r.t.l., as newer boards are a step up visually from Lugnet. (...) (...) (23 years ago, 13-Feb-04, to lugnet.general)

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  Re: LEGOFan.net - central community run hub for all areas of the LEGO community.
 
(...) And like I said, I disagree (but at least we agree on the boring part). :-) (...) What part of "boring" didn't you parse? :-) I shall be more forceful in my comparison, Maximum Borosity. (all those who never saw the phrase "maximum verbosity" (...) (23 years ago, 12-Feb-04, to lugnet.general)

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