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Posted By: Forrest of B.org | Date: 10/18/06 2:13 p.m. | |
In Response To: whoops, forgot a point (MrHen) : "Player" is not the "Player character", "Main character", or "Security Officer". Question here though: why would we ever be talking about "the player" (the person behind the keyboard) on a Wiki article? That's not one person, there's not anything you can say about "him", because he's all of us, and nobody in particular. It'd be like a Wiki about LotR referring to "the reader". Who? Which reader? There's thousands of them, all different. I suppose it may be useful in some contexts to say something like "the player [whoever it may be sitting at the keyboard] can choose to do such-and-such or so-and-so". But even then, it seems like in most contexts, that could apply equally well to the player-character: the choice is his. About the only place I can see referring to the-player-behind-the-keyboard that isn't equivalent to the player-character is talking about out-of-game-universe things like setting preferences and gathering netgames, or phrases like "many players found such-and-such scenario difficult because...", in which case context should make it abundantly clear that we're not talking about the player-character, but about the people driving their mice around. And in those cases, we wouldn't be linking to an article about "the player", since as I said above there's not really much to be said about "him".
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Terminology questions | MrHen | 10/16/06 6:40 a.m. | |
Re: Terminology questions | Aaron Sikes | 10/16/06 7:01 a.m. | |
Re: Terminology questions | Forrest of B.org | 10/16/06 7:28 a.m. | |
accepted | MrHen | 10/16/06 8:16 a.m. | |
Re: accepted | Document | 10/17/06 2:37 p.m. | |
My own terminology question | RyokoTK | 10/16/06 3:36 p.m. | |
Re: My own terminology question | MrHen | 10/16/06 4:01 p.m. | |
Re: My own terminology question | RyokoTK | 10/16/06 4:48 p.m. | |
perhaps... | MrHen | 10/16/06 5:18 p.m. | |
Re: My own terminology question | Document | 10/17/06 11:51 a.m. | |
Like Halo? *NM* | MrHen | 10/17/06 3:30 p.m. | |
Re: My own terminology question | Forrest of B.org | 10/16/06 6:19 p.m. | |
on The Player | MrHen | 10/16/06 8:11 a.m. | |
Re: on The Player | Document | 10/17/06 3:04 p.m. | |
dissenting opinions, but flexible | MrHen | 10/17/06 3:49 p.m. | |
Re: dissenting opinions, but flexible | Forrest of B.org | 10/18/06 7:07 a.m. | |
Now we are getting somewhere | MrHen | 10/18/06 8:55 a.m. | |
Re: Now we are getting somewhere | Aaron Sikes | 10/18/06 9:58 a.m. | |
Re: Now we are getting somewhere | RyokoTK | 10/18/06 11:56 a.m. | |
Re: Now we are getting somewhere | MrHen | 10/18/06 1:27 p.m. | |
whoops, forgot a point | MrHen | 10/18/06 1:30 p.m. | |
Re: whoops, forgot a point | Forrest of B.org | 10/18/06 2:13 p.m. | |
That's what I'm saying. | RyokoTK | 10/18/06 2:39 p.m. | |
I agree, but come to a different conclusion | MrHen | 10/18/06 3:41 p.m. | |
Re: I agree, but come to a different conclusion | RyokoTK | 10/18/06 3:54 p.m. | |
Re: I agree, but come to a different conclusion | Forrest of B.org | 10/18/06 4:05 p.m. | |
this is getting more off-topic... | MrHen | 10/18/06 4:22 p.m. | |
Re: this is getting more off-topic... | Forrest of B.org | 10/18/06 6:31 p.m. | |
my bad... | MrHen | 10/19/06 4:48 a.m. | |
Re: I agree, but come to a different conclusion | MrHen | 10/18/06 4:13 p.m. | |
Re: whoops, forgot a point | MrHen | 10/18/06 3:26 p.m. | |
Re: Now we are getting somewhere | Document | 10/19/06 8:52 a.m. | |
Re: Now we are getting somewhere | Forrest of B.org | 10/19/06 6:52 p.m. | |
Re: Now we are getting somewhere | Forrest of B.org | 10/18/06 2:01 p.m. | |
Almost there... | MrHen | 10/18/06 3:50 p.m. | |
Re: dissenting opinions, but flexible | Forrest of B.org | 10/18/06 2:22 p.m. | |
now *that* makes sense (final draft?) | MrHen | 10/18/06 3:53 p.m. | |
Final Draft? | Forrest of B.org | 10/18/06 4:13 p.m. | |
Re: Final Draft? | Document | 10/18/06 4:27 p.m. | |
Good. *shakes hands of everyone* | MrHen | 10/18/06 4:28 p.m. | |
Re: Good. *shakes hands of everyone* | Document | 10/19/06 8:33 a.m. | |
:) Go for it. *NM* | MrHen | 10/19/06 9:20 a.m. | |
Re: Good. *shakes hands of everyone* | Forrest of B.org | 10/19/06 6:55 p.m. | |
Re: now *that* makes sense (final draft?) | Document | 10/18/06 4:33 p.m. | |
Agreed *NM* | Document | 10/18/06 3:55 p.m. | |
Re: dissenting opinions, but flexible | Document | 10/24/06 1:47 p.m. | |
in-universe or out-of-universe? | MrHen | 10/24/06 4:41 p.m. | |
Re: on The Player | Document | 10/24/06 2:08 p.m. | |
that solves that. ;) *NM* | MrHen | 10/24/06 4:33 p.m. | |
Re: Terminology questions | treellama | 10/16/06 11:21 a.m. | |
Or Jason Jones? *NM* | MrHen | 10/16/06 11:27 a.m. | |
Re: Terminology questions | Document | 10/17/06 11:41 a.m. | |
*exctend=extend *NM* | Document | 10/17/06 11:45 a.m. | |
Re: Terminology questions | RyokoTK | 10/17/06 12:53 p.m. | |
Re: Terminology questions | MrHen | 10/17/06 3:51 p.m. |
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