What's the deal with Cheaters?

[Dis]

you guys have raped my beautiful thread

[Arrian]

Back to the original topic, which was cheat codes, I wanted to clarify something:

Dissident originally posted that he didn't understand people searching high and low for cheat codes (like using the Civ II cheat mode to give yourself 100/100/100 tanks or something in 4000BC). I agreed that I don't get it, unless it's for scenario creation, as the cheat mode in CivII was very useful for that.

Not "getting it" doesn't mean I condemn it. Hell, my signature is from a pretty funny Civ I cheat code that I found amusing for about half an hour (half the fun was looking at the AI's cities to see the bizare things they were doing). Nor do I have a problem with anyone reloading or things like that. It's a game, a SP game for the time being. I myself have activated the super-dooper-human-player-only time machine to backtrack when a strategy failed miserably, so I could see if making a different choice was a better option. I haven't done that in a while, but when I was first learning the game, it helped me figure out how to be successful in war. I quickly discovered that I needed more troops than I originally thought, and a number of other things. I considered those chieftain & warlord games my tutorial.

FacistDictactor - Read my post. I copied and pasted that "history lesson" from a web page, and I listed the link. I was going to explain who Arrian was in my own words, but because it was easier, I did a quick web search on him and used what I found there. Further, I don't recall ANY OF US trying to tell you that you can't cheat, or the Secret Civ III Police will come and get you. Do as you will, I could care less.

-Arrian (who doesn't actually pretend he's Canadian when abroad either, but has at times wished he did).

[Libertarian]

Lib - A technical question. Could one argue that arrogance can be exercised without restraint within the Right, since it does not necessarily affect anyone else's interests?

I'm sorry. I don't understand the question. What is "the Right"? Do you mean the Christian Coalition or something?

[Changmai Beagle]

The Right

I've been out of philosophy 101 a while, but IIRC its the bundle of rules that a society dedicated to maximum liberty has to have to maintain the ability to exercise that liberty. My freedom to swing my fist ends where it interferes with your freedom from being hit. I just thought as a Libertarian you might be into that.
P.S. Were you aware that when Ed Clark (?) became leader of the U.S. Libertarian Party one waggish newspaper called him Ed Who? (Joe Who? being a sort of nickname of our short-lived Prime Minister Joe Clark who was a relative unknown party apparatchik).

And yes, I know we're OT, OT, OT.