OK, Eimi wins hard for quoting the intro voiceover.
And I'll grant that Mainframe's User could just be a clueless chainik, though I insist that whoever he's getting his Games from is actively malicious. The consequences of a User win are so rampantly destructive, I can't imagine that being a normal state of affairs.
Anyway, the real reason I don't really like the idea of Doug as a User is precisely because we know so little about them. I tend to think that beings of that class are restricted to their "alien, unknowable overspace", as (looking for source... ah!) Evil Midnight Lurker put it. Nevertheless, I wouldn't put it past the forum (primarily you and DF) to make it work anyway.
And I'll grant that Mainframe's User could just be a clueless chainik, though I insist that whoever he's getting his Games from is actively malicious. The consequences of a User win are so rampantly destructive, I can't imagine that being a normal state of affairs.
Anyway, the real reason I don't really like the idea of Doug as a User is precisely because we know so little about them. I tend to think that beings of that class are restricted to their "alien, unknowable overspace", as (looking for source... ah!) Evil Midnight Lurker put it. Nevertheless, I wouldn't put it past the forum (primarily you and DF) to make it work anyway.