Getting back to smellingbottle's original post and the point about AF's probable opinion of online RPGS (I agree that it would probably be very low), I do think it would have been fascinating to see what the Marlows and the Internet made of each other. There isn't a huge amount of difference between becoming overly identified with a character who doesn't have your problems (or, as in the case of Rupert, has problems you're a bit afraid you do have, and can explore using the character as a medium) and coming up with Walter Mitty-like fantasies on mailing lists.
I can quite see Ginty claiming to have chestnut hair and brown eyes and to be afraid of nothing to, for example, a mailing list full of fellow fans of The Constant Nymph, and then getting into a horrendous mess when she has to meet members of the list IRL...
And, of course, there are a few people out there who really shouldn't be allowed to go round pretending they are someone else because they might do themselves a mischief, just as there are paedophiles like Uncle Gerry. Fortunately, just as one can visit Oxford in the reasonable hope of not running into a fake uncle in a brown suit, one can hang about with roleplayers for years and not get shot. ;)
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Date: 2007-03-28 09:47 pm (UTC)I can quite see Ginty claiming to have chestnut hair and brown eyes and to be afraid of nothing to, for example, a mailing list full of fellow fans of The Constant Nymph, and then getting into a horrendous mess when she has to meet members of the list IRL...
And, of course, there are a few people out there who really shouldn't be allowed to go round pretending they are someone else because they might do themselves a mischief, just as there are paedophiles like Uncle Gerry. Fortunately, just as one can visit Oxford in the reasonable hope of not running into a fake uncle in a brown suit, one can hang about with roleplayers for years and not get shot. ;)