Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 12:04:38 11/17/98
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On November 16, 1998 at 19:05:37, Bruce Moreland wrote: > >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. Since KK says "why" he objects, I see no problem with his listing. I would agree with him, and so that particular listing has value *for me*. Other persons might think that nudity, profanity and violence are wonderful things for a chess program, and such a listing would mean the panned programs are more valuable *to them*. So in either case, we extract value from the descriptions.
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