06-12-2003, 04:00 AM
LIfe is unlimited. Games are finite. Games have well spelled out rules. Games offer us an opportunity to be better than average, in purity, due to the simplicity of the rules. It is a damned shame that folks cheat at games, since in a game, the rules define it. Without the rules, we have no game.
RL. The last perfect person I ever heard of was Jesus Christ, and maybe Ghandi came close. Hard to say.
So, if I go 60 in a 55 now and again, am I evil? No, but not pure, and I do risk other travellers on the road who expect me to be at 55. Use judgement.
The finite world of bnet, due to its inherent limitations, requires for us to all make a small sacrifice to others so that the game can exist 'as a thing in itself.' Loop hole exploiting does not bother me as much as blatant cheating wherein the game code is modified.
The cheating in self defense argument will never go away, since no one is pleased with how Blizz deals with the worst hacks: dupes, drops, triggers, scrolls. Too slow, too lame, that is the common perception on how the ref calls the game and penalized cheaters. Even this last round was 'warn' not 'ban' CD keys for cheating. Not good enough.
Last item.
Can't we hope, in this artificial world of Diablo, that we can play the game as presented? And if not, is it not the players who are to blame, since the succumbed to temptation?
Yep. Just as the teenagers, he and she, are to blame when she gets pregnant. They both fell to temptation and forgot what the rules of the game are.
RL. The last perfect person I ever heard of was Jesus Christ, and maybe Ghandi came close. Hard to say.
So, if I go 60 in a 55 now and again, am I evil? No, but not pure, and I do risk other travellers on the road who expect me to be at 55. Use judgement.
The finite world of bnet, due to its inherent limitations, requires for us to all make a small sacrifice to others so that the game can exist 'as a thing in itself.' Loop hole exploiting does not bother me as much as blatant cheating wherein the game code is modified.
The cheating in self defense argument will never go away, since no one is pleased with how Blizz deals with the worst hacks: dupes, drops, triggers, scrolls. Too slow, too lame, that is the common perception on how the ref calls the game and penalized cheaters. Even this last round was 'warn' not 'ban' CD keys for cheating. Not good enough.
Last item.
Can't we hope, in this artificial world of Diablo, that we can play the game as presented? And if not, is it not the players who are to blame, since the succumbed to temptation?
Yep. Just as the teenagers, he and she, are to blame when she gets pregnant. They both fell to temptation and forgot what the rules of the game are.
Cry 'Havoc' and let slip the Men 'O War!
In War, the outcome is never final. --Carl von Clausewitz--
Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum
John 11:35 - consider why.
In Memory of Pete
In War, the outcome is never final. --Carl von Clausewitz--
Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum
John 11:35 - consider why.
In Memory of Pete