Reply To: JCCC4: Post Mortem (Feedback Thread)
I am a member of the WiFiTempBrig-Reformed. As I am required by maritime law to run Artemis at all cruise ship based events, I was unable to stay with the false prophet David Rees. While many of his teachings are true, some are outdated dogma. Artemis is a local area network game that doesn’t even let players IM each other. It forces them to communicate in the way of our ancestors, using our mouths and tongues to make crude noises that are actually coded messages that only certain people (and some machines) can decode.
Other than Artemis (and the telephone a couple times), I avoided using electronic communication systems. I find it quite relaxing to cut the cord to my cell phone (I fully grasp the irony of that statement). I carry my phone everywhere 51 weeks of the year, it is nice to turn it off and actually talk to people during dinner or whatever. I also did not have pockets most of the time and felt that carrying a purse just to lug around a glorified clock seemed silly. I do not mean to say that Twitt-Arrr or CM are bad or shouldn’t be used, just that I choose not to use them, and I did not miss the things I was not aware of. I had a bit of tongue-in-cheek fun trying to avoid looking at other people’s phones when they had something they wanted to share from one of the systems. I had very little down time as it was (my fault for over scheduling myself in advance) and what time I did have, I spent relaxing in blissful ignorance. I also found that the important things were relayed in meat space, so anything I would want to do was brought to my attention.