Mantastic
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Mantastic
Moderator | Sunday, October 08, 2000 - 07:32 pm  Mantastic walks into the Red Room confessional and sits down facing the screen. The Interrogator says: Good evening. Feel free to say anything you wish. Maybe something you didn't give voice to while talking with the other players, or some opinion you want to state. Mantastic appears to think for a moment and then says: Impressions? Hmmmmmm ... It's tough to be a part of the game right now, because I am not good at chatting. I read what people say; the easy style of roger ramjet, the confessional style of arreal, glibness of moondance, etc are impossible for me to emulate. So I try to throw biggish bits of my mind/muse out, and hope that they will represent me; my committment to playing this game, etc, in the place of participating in repartee and the ongoing joke/metaphor that we are, in fact in a BB house. That's my admission for the day. Mantastic waits a moment, then stands up and leaves. |
Moderator | Wednesday, October 11, 2000 - 10:10 am  Mantastic enters the read room and sits down. He says: hi. You know what's hard for me? Getting into the whole 'house' thing... I simply have nothing to say about LRs, BRs, Hot tubs, pretend beer, and all that. I guess that just does not fire my imagination in any way. I still like the idea of the game, but the thing is, it's really strong enough to stand on its own as a concept--it doesn't need to be a trailer, dragged along behind the metaphor of the Big Brother house. I don't know if it's the other BGs doing it, or the format imposed on the game. I don't even read the whole 'Virtual House' thread. He pauses for a moment and shakes his head. Then he says: Of course I know this costs me. Perhaps I am viewed by the Game Watching Public as too aloof, or a snob, or self-involved, and certainly the other BGs notice it. I'm not refusing to participate on purpose--I think my natural iconoclasty/misanthropy/shyness is just not allowing me to jump in. All the warmth and fuzziness does not really interest me either. Mantastic chuckles and says: I am sure there is a lot of criticism and casual nastiness in the discussion area, and plenty of it to go around. But I hope some people somewhere like what I have to say, even if it all comes out in stories and narrative. That's just how I communicate. But for them, I'll try not to 'produce myself' as Paul Romer criticised the HGs in BB of doing, and... urg, chat more. He smiles and says: That's all I have to say, just now. The Interrogator says: Then we will talk again later. Mantastic smiles and leaves the Red Room. |
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