May 25, 2016, 11:52 PM

@ThatGuyThere said in Cultural differences between MUDs and MUSHes:

Then how was the time of one hour decided on? Just because something is the same for everyone does not mean it is not arbitrary.

  1. If you get stabbed in the abdomen and have one hour to live starting immediately.
  2. If your finger gets chopped off, you're already beaten half to death, and you're bleeding, you have one hour to live starting immediately.
  3. If you have cancer, you've had it for 2 years intermittently, and now it's spread so badly you're dying, and you now have one hour to live.
  4. If you're 102 years old, haven't been ill even once since that hooker in 'Nam, dying of old age, and you now have one hour to live.

All of these would be considered 'critical' on the MUD. It's the point of time - not an arbitrary point, but the specific point of time in your injury/malady in which you now have one hour left to live that is considered critical. If this is a vocabulary debate though, sure we can call it arbitrary if we're also calling having 24 hours in a day arbitrary, or 60 seconds in a minute.