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Is this a scam Ergodic cyber something

I really struggled to read this article. Is this actually real? Is this actually a scam? Is there real language and information hear? Is narratology or ergodic actually a word? This guy is straight up on crack. He defines ergodic and cybertext and trys to explain that there is meaning behind it, yet by the time i finished the reading i was more confused then when i started. I even got it translated and couldn't figure it out. This article feels as if the author was over educated and loves to have fun with vocabulary so he made this monstrosity of an article to confuse the reader. This is what i got from the article. There is some sort of cybertext out there that is non linear and does something important. Yet it is not confined to the computer. Instead there is many examples of cybertext, (that could mean ergodic literature) from the past that don't use the computer. Such as the hieroglyphics in temples. Also there are labrinths that are like nets that lead to one point, yet from that point they have infinet possibilities and infinet endings. I guess how this relates to the class is that you the user of a game could be the center of the net and there are infinite possobilities out there from the starting point. This shows us how kids want to feel like they have more then one path then just one linear path by reading a book. Still i don't think the author knows what he is talking about and did to much coke because from the way he is talking he seems to have fried his brain.

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Andy Cox:

Some interesting observations ;-) Putting aside the bad language I think he makes some good points about interactivity and non-linearity as properties of texts in general and not just computer games - indeed some written texts are more non-lineary and interactive than some games.

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