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From: aa382@Freenet.carleton.ca (Marc Sira)
Subject: Re: Lurking Horror
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Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1993 20:46:38 GMT
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In a previous article, jrs@netcom.com (John Switzer) says:

>Not to mention that the game in question is seven years old, and its second release
>is almost one year old. Insisting on spoilers for something like that is like
>insisting on spoilers about Casablanca.

I see no validity in this. I-F games are more like mystery novels than films,
and there is a pretty well-understood convention of not giving things away
unless explicitly requested. Just because you and I have played the thing to
death doesn't mean that Jane Doe has, now or twenty years from now.


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