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Joao Mendes wrote:
> Hy, :)
>
> Changed the subject line, as this is no longer Inform-specific.

Why not just eliminate the Inform tag?

> Eric Smith <eric-no-spam-for-me@brouhaha.com> wrote in
> news:qhbs6kjjh0.fsf@ruckus.brouhaha.com:
>>Having the game
>>make a distinction (even implicitly) between the character's thoughts
>>and the players is very annoying.
> I'd like you to expand on this, if possible.

I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest that he meant, basically,
what I've meant, elsewhere:  Don't tell me what I think, lead me to
think it.  "You would never even think of doing that," is a very
sloppy way of keeping the player from trying something.

