[arg_discuss] TINAG and the curtain: necessary?

[Morbus Iff]

> It was a reaction to your statements about it requiring a mix of IG and OOG

> elements to enjoy an ARG. I was offering up the wrinkle that is only true if

> you're not utilizing OOG where you could find a cleverer way to execute it

> IG (almost as a corollary of the "show it don't explain it" mindset of

> immersion that is part of TINAG attempted to express.) So, no, not meant as

> a specific comment on your project, just a reaction to the essay you linked


Gotcha - my particular sentence/intent didn't mean OOG in the sense of a 
PM talking OOG (due to lack of curtain), but rather that healthy OOG is 
important (along with "both IG and OOG, both TINAG and TIAG, both story 
and discourse"). I consider "huh, what tangent are they going off on 
now" healthy. I consider "oh, jesus, they're trying to relate things to 
that faked website" unhealthy.

"Essay" is faaaAAR too kind. This was "merely" a "post",
a "this project is inspired by and why", not an essay.


> up a Curtain Defense :) In general, though, if something is playing out in

> real time, you don't necessarily want a running meta-commentary (like a

> sports broadcast) at the same time ... especially not from someone who

> already knows how the game ends :)


Agree.

When I lament about curtains, I do so not to banish them, but instead to 
make them translucent - I think that term was even used in the ARG chat 
the other night - Mind Candy had a translucent curtain, and so, now, 
does EE. (Though, one could torture the curtain metaphor further and 
further, arguing that the curtain was translucent as soon as one WHOIS'd 
BeSeeingU, but only now, with schmeldritch, do you actually "admit" it).

I support the OOG/BTS orgy, but certainly agree that the scenes
must, in fact, be finished, before one can go behind them.

I think we should replace "curtain" with "bathroom stall" - you can peak 
under to see there are feet there, and certainly knock to hear someone 
say "occupied", but anything more (say, sticking your hand under and 
feeling around) can get pretty ooky until the door is actually opened 
and you can see what's going on.

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