Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 16:05:37 11/16/98
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On November 16, 1998 at 13:26:24, Komputer Korner wrote: >While I agree in principle with your liberalism Bruce, as you get older you will >realize that since there is a time and place for everything, chess is not that >time or place for vulgarity or nudity. I would have thought that at age 35 I was getting to be immune to this particular argument. > I have listened to others who have the >same viewpoints as yours and I can't help thinking of our desensitizing to the >violence that has taken place in society. We in Canada for the most part abhor >the gun culture in the U.S. and some other countries but even here we see >increasing desensitizing to violence. That is a slippery slope towards madness. >Young people (males mostly) have always been attracted to war and violence ( >witness the eager volunteers for the 1st and 2nd World wars and the mass >audiences for professional fake wrestling ), but do we have to put up with >violence in a chess game? Your list can be whatever you want, of course, but I wince whenever I see this list. You essentially made a list of things that suck, and what this means for me is things that have a lot of bugs and/or were shipped before the beta, so to speak, or where the game doesn't achieve what it set out to achieve. I'm concerned that this might be a good program, but that you just disagree with the content. I haven't seen the program, but from the title it's obviously a send-up of something, and send-ups tend to be at least a little outrageous. If somebody read the box and said to themselves, "yeah, this sounds fun", would they be disappointed when they installed the program? This is different then saying that they should hate the product because they never should have liked what was on the box. bruce
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