To start in no way shape or form am I trying to say that we should all be all knowing characters that know every detail of everyone's life. However there are three things that lately have suddenly become "taboo knowledge" the Live Events boards, cinematics, and the movies. The point of this is state why each of these things should be allowed to be used IC.
Live Events: This surprised me when someone said they were not usable. Why not? It's a message board on Data node one something that has always been referred to as a means of redpills to communicate and in which information has been taken off of and used IC. So why is it now that the LE boards which is still apart of DN1 is suddenly off limits? I brought this up in another thread about a thread by Agent Gray in that board. But first according to some knowledge gained off the LE boards is considered as you "god modeing" unless you were there. Well then recursion machinist are full of them because how else would they know about this meeting huh? Not to mention as I look back threw a few threads I see a lot of IC responses to events that the characters were not there for and shouldn't be arguing there case on. After all LE boards OOC right? Messages posted on the LE boards are apart of DN1 and should be seen as an IC report on what has happened and yes while it never says that its an RP board how many responses to the events do you post that start off OOC?
Cinematic: Same as the LE boards. IC we were not there so how do we know it happened. Surveillance cameras maybe watching it? Well that would make since but what about 5.2 where we had those two people fighting and no one knew what the heck was going on when that happened as a LE. There was a camera there to see it so they should have know right? And what about with Morpheus meeting the Oracle in 1.2. We were not there to hear it but then how do we know that happened. Last I checked no one that was there ever said that meeting took place so how do we all know about that? According to the same logic behind the LE boards we shouldn't know that information ether but I can't think of anyone that plays dumb to it. Then why do we know it happend? Because we are ment to know that it happend. Thats why they put out the cinimatics so that the player base knows what is going on.
The Movies: Now this one has more to do with private conversations and events that happened. We were not there IC so we shouldn't know about it. Ok well then why is Debir court so special again? And what's up with some freeway chase I keep hearing about. Who's the keymaker and why dose the operator in Pandora's box get a weird vibe from the government building and why do some Zionist see it as a special spot? OH even better. Why do machinest all of a sudden know who the architect and his status before PoBS? Only TWO people saw him. The Oracle and Neo. Ones dead the other has never mentiond him to anyone and nether has Gray or Pace. Its always said that he's just some kind of higher being then an agent but where you get this idea that he made the matrix is just weird. same as the cinimatics the movie are there because we are ment to know what happend before the MxO story line picked up. And both LESIG and LET show us day after day that that is how there supose to be seen. There always asking questions or anwsering them that deal with thing in the movies and the Architect is a perfect example of just that. Hell even the LE characters know thigns they shouldn't accorind to the "you were not there" rule. The Kid for isntance in this thread quotes Neo. He wasn't there, he wasn't even free yet but why does he know that quote? OMG GOD MODER! No its just expect of him to know it and expected of us.
Is it so hard to believe that such a simple reason as to why you know something is that they hacked a mainframe, read it in the Zion archives, or saw it on DN1? People now are calling for elaborate reasons and when they cant find one there own they just write it off as OOC knowledge.
I'm not trying to force anyone to use these tools and add them to how they play there character. That's up for you to decide. What I am asking is that the people that choose not to use this info as IC knowledge stop accusing those that do as "god modeling" or being some all knowing being. We all have our own ways of RPing so don't get upset when someone uses tools that you don't.
