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October 30, 2006
Only perverse people touch the velvet....
My first experience with interactive fiction was quite funny. Galatea and I got into a conversation about the black velvet around her and she said it was perverse to touch it, I was just being cheeky and I offeneded a statue. It was sort of creepy, I felt like I was in the mall talking to a mannequin or something and everyone would be giving me weird looks. It's hard to believe people would talk with the computer as if it were a therapist. At the same time, the really crappy ones on TV just paraphrase everything you say just like the computer anyway. The idea of typing your responses really makes you think about how well you articulate because one wrong phrase and bam! Game over!
Posted by ErinWaite at October 30, 2006 03:39 PM