On Tue, 2007-09-04 at 03:56, nleric2002 wrote:
> everyone
> seems to have forgotten about my attempt to do the same by creating an
> imagestreaming game, this was started by me a mere two weeks ago,
>; during that time out of 2,000 people registered to this list, only
>; about 5 replied, and at the moment there is a poll running, asking if
> people would be interested in joining a list that would require people
> to be active with Win's techniques rather than just paying lip
> service, the poll closes at midnight tonight and at the moment only 11
> people have responded (out of over 2,000, and the NO's are winning
> 6-5, incredible result for a group called imagestreaming and the
> 2,000+ people registered on it, makes you wonder why they are on the
> list if they are not willing to try to imagestream....very strange.
It wasn't forgotten about; it was widely dismissed as a bad idea. Don't
get stuck on it, try again. IS doesn't provide you with absolute truth,
it's a shortcut to interesting hypotheses to test; that one flunked. My
IS says it flunked because keyboard and mouse are absurdly slow and
clumsy interfaces between an ISer and an external focus. That's not
necessarily true, of course, but it's an interesting hypothesis to
test...
Computers have their uses as external foci; recorder (audio and video),
autotranscription, script search, et cetera. Gaming IS doesn't seem to
be one of them.
As for your poll, I voted no. I am of course a respondent, messages
from me to the list go back, on and off, for years; but I think
*mandatory* response will sharply increase noise. One of the images I
got for such a list was a rookery; a loud one.
If you *can't* distinguish between ISing, reading about it, and posting
about it, that's a failure of intelligence, not character, and I won't
hold it against you. If you're deliberating conflating them just to
score points on people, though, tut.
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