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[Jain]

[natas]

[Jain]

Yes, the fourth post down on page four. It said a lot more yesterday but he edited it out.

[you.]

Re: Just got this in my inbox...

[natas]

Re: Just got this in my inbox...

[thebruce]

it's a big discussion that gets into the philosophy of reality... so in simple forms, it's carried out as a TOS rule - PMs can't post in their own game thread, and characters should avoid referencing/recognizing OOG material that defines them as fictional. That doesn't mean PMs can't watch and use what they see in the forums, but if it's used, it has to make sense in an in-game way that doesn't require acknowldgement of UF.

It's like a cloak of invisibility - The obect (uf) is still there, but the observer (character) doen't know. Light ("game"play) can be affected by it, bent all the way around it; the light's path can be actually altered by the object, but the observer can't tell the difference. The puppetmaster knows aout the object, but the observer doesn't.

Brings me back to the beginning of Star Trek Insurrection with the team observing a civilization inside the cliff-side. The civilization wouldn't understand, couldn't comprehend the reality that would be presented by the team.
Very rough, insufficient analogy, but essentially, in the character's "alternate" reality, they can't comprehend that they could be fictional. For gameplay's sake, UF is considerd OOG as a safehaven for discussing the game as a game, without the characters getting information they otherwise wouldn't, via this 4th-wall-breaking resource. It goes deep.

There are resources that discuss the philosophy, and debates still going about it, but basically - UF TOS: PMs do not post in their UF gamespace, and characters shouldn't use information gleaned by the PM from that source.

[natas]

I knew that eventually someone would come along who could explain it better than I.

[you.]

Okiedokie then, thanks for the clarification

[degravedi]

Hmm, it seems that it may have been part of the game after all and wasn't meant to be refering to this specific website? (Either that or the PM quickly rethought his gameplan, certainly not a bad trait). At first I thought this was just a mass reply from another player, but I guess not.

[Boomer52]

[inflamzalive]

[Boomer52]

[inflamzalive]

and if hes upset that this guy post 0012 and 0015
does that mean they're posted somewhere else?

[Boomer52]

[degravedi]