My favorite characters in role-playing games are the ones who develop enough that they surprise me; I don’t see them as having independent existence, but they are effectively a different process I can run on my own personal wetware. They don’t run unless I explicitly switch into their mindset, but when I do, they sometimes make different use of my cognitive resources and have insights and reactions that I wouldn’t.
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Date: 2009-01-09 08:54 pm (UTC)