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'just a game'!
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'just a game'!
This is obviously a spinnoff of the ethics discussion, were the most often heard argument against a code of ehtics (which seems to have had the support of over half our citizens) was that this is 'just a game' people, so why go throught the trouble. Well, i see two glaring faults with that argument, flaws that are obvious on its face:
First, if it is just a game, then we gamers have the right to play anyway we want, including in a way that creates self-limitations on the play style. Second, if we lose by these self-limitations, so what??? It is just a game so what matters is having fun, not victory or defeat. All that happened is that our fake civ died, big deal, its just a game.
Second, if this is just a game, whats the point of this forum, of all the time spend creating and nurturing political parties, having political discussions, creating war plans, writing a freaking constitution! The very fact of this forum makes the argument of 'just a game' seem ludicrous, since if you trully believe that, why are you here
when you could be playing fine alone, or creating a "civ3 dem just a game forum"?
If someone in this forum has a problem vs. lets say, a code of ehitcs, there are many ways to argue against it: Not historically fitting, a different code, based on the virtues of war better for civ than one based on pity or equal rights, so forth and so on but to say 'just a game' is both wrong as an argument against anything in a game and not fitting for someone participating in this forum.
'just a game'!This is obviously a spinnoff of the ethics discussion, were the most often heard argument against a code of ehtics (which seems to have had the support of over half our citizens) was that this is 'just a game' people, so why go throught the trouble. Well, i see two glaring faults with that argument, flaws that are obvious on its face:
First, if it is just a game, then we gamers have the right to play anyway we want, including in a way that creates self-limitations on the play style. Second, if we lose by these self-limitations, so what??? It is just a game so what matters is having fun, not victory or defeat. All that happened is that our fake civ died, big deal, its just a game.
Second, if this is just a game, whats the point of this forum, of all the time spend creating and nurturing political parties, having political discussions, creating war plans, writing a freaking constitution! The very fact of this forum makes the argument of 'just a game' seem ludicrous, since if you trully believe that, why are you here
when you could be playing fine alone, or creating a "civ3 dem just a game forum"?If someone in this forum has a problem vs. lets say, a code of ehitcs, there are many ways to argue against it: Not historically fitting, a different code, based on the virtues of war better for civ than one based on pity or equal rights, so forth and so on but to say 'just a game' is both wrong as an argument against anything in a game and not fitting for someone participating in this forum.
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