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Does a merry-go-round usually rotate clockwise or counterclockwise?
Suppose you imagine a giant wheel, travelling forward at great speed, and yourself, travelling parallel to it, very close, almost touching the rotating side. Which side of the wheel will you be on, right or left? Why?
This has some serious connotations to the phenomenon of isotropic roleplaying space¹ but I’m not yet sure what they are.
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1. Whenever two people roleplay a scene in a text environment like a MUSH, they will almost always imagine their relative positions in space to be the same, and envision themselves looking in the same direction. This gets particularily troublesome if they roleplay something involving complex motion, because eventually two mental images become incompatible.
This could be vitally important.
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