On Sun, 4 Jun 2000 LLWatts@aol.com wrote:

>I haven't done any simming, but a friend of mine has on-line.  If her 
>experience is anywhere close to typical, I wouldn't want someone looking at 
>simmers and thinking that's what I do.  (Let me put it this way, some of the 
>things pulled in those sims would get my 7 year old nephew a very sore 
>bottom.)  I'm still getting caught up on e-mail after vacation, though, have 
>we put together a working definition of simming yet?

Not exactly, although I think we're getting closer.

Yes, a lot of sims are outlets for people to express their, um, secret
fantasies about a particular TV show.  (It's got a lot in common with
fanfic in that regard.)  Which, after its own fashion, makes it guilty of
some of what conventional roleplayers get accused of (although *our*
fantasies are assumed to consist of hacking people up with swords rather
than jumping into bed with them).

-- 
Karen J. Cravens  silver@phoenyx.net



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