Psychology of MUDs

[Karmei]

Check this out

So, anyone have any thoughts on this? Know any other links related to that sort of research?

I just happened to stumble onto this when I was playing around on Wikipedia earlier today and I thought it was damn interesting!

[Pyrosama]

There seems to be alot of truth in that. I find that I'm very much less judgemental now than I was 10 years ago and I attribute much of it to having been socialized into the online communities that technology has brought into my home.

There's alot to be said for breaking down the barriers that we struggle with in RL. Doing it on different planes/surfaces just makes it easier to accept yourself in reality just a little bit easier and to be more forgiving of others when they don't share the same thoughts or knowledges.

I enjoyed it alot. I plan to link it to those colleagues at work who become exasperated with me and are forever going, "Why in the world would you get off work, just to go home and get right back on the computer?"

I'm not as bad as I used to be, but people just do not understand the culture and the knowledge that you gain from the discoveries about self and universe when you interact in different environments and within the different groups that you experience in the gaming world.

It's funny when my lesbian colleague and I share interesting tidbits of our own backgrounds and culture...when we want a different twist on something we just go, "Holla at me"

[Karmei]

I am sure that I expand my "inner selves" via threshold. It gives me an open canvas to conceive something I would like to try, and in a sense put it into application to try out. I also have become more socialized to ideas and concepts I normally would have been skittish of, or outright unsettled by, because I grew up in a very small town. (Think MAYBE 20,000 people)

I just became so intrigued with that study I have been looking up information on it since!

[Rosuav]

Umm... admins... sorry, I forgot my password on your mud "RL". I can't log out of other muds without logging into yours, and the poor folks on Threshold are getting sick of me, so if you could just set my password to "pitotwohundreddecimalplaces", I'd so appreciate it. (Setting my password to pi to two hundred decimal places would also be fine. But please don't set it to "iamamudaddict" like last time - please?)

[Sebboe]

I think there is a place in Vishnu's clergy for the author of that essay.

[Cyrinne]

I wrote an essay about MUDS in college. It's actually why I came here in the first place. I'm glad I lost it, otherwise I'd feel like I should share it for nostaligia purposes. But I was eighteen and pretentious and it was probably nonsense.

Got an A though!