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From: "Ben A L Jemmett" <bal.jemmett@ukonline.co.uk>
Subject: Re: "Led by the nose"
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"Jon Ingold" <ji207@cam.ac.uk> wrote in message
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> To which I respond (as ever, I'm afraid): "Why would being able to affect
> the story make it any more satisfying?"

But if the story runs in the same way no matter what the PC does, it's
hardly interactive fiction, is it?  It's more like piping a text file
through $PAGER...  I don't know about anyone else, but if I've sat there
paging through the text, having to type something which won't have an
effect, I get annoyed and look for a good old printed book.

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