04-10-2003, 12:20 AM
Hi,
I sense that your tongue is squarely in your cheek, and that you are using a caustic voice mentally as you present the term 'third party.'
'Bout half and half. I think the "third party" argument sucks both for the cheaters and the anti-cheaters. It is just no good. It is both too inclusive and not inclusive enough. Some people have used it to denigrate perfectly valid programs, including mods. Others use it to justify what any primate would recognize as cheating.
My point is that third party programs are not the problem, cheating is. If it is done by bug abuse, if it is done through third party programs, it doesn't matter. And if there is no cheating involved, then third party programs don't matter either.
I was most uncharitable to the fellow in reply.
Wish I'd been there ;)
--Pete
I sense that your tongue is squarely in your cheek, and that you are using a caustic voice mentally as you present the term 'third party.'
'Bout half and half. I think the "third party" argument sucks both for the cheaters and the anti-cheaters. It is just no good. It is both too inclusive and not inclusive enough. Some people have used it to denigrate perfectly valid programs, including mods. Others use it to justify what any primate would recognize as cheating.
My point is that third party programs are not the problem, cheating is. If it is done by bug abuse, if it is done through third party programs, it doesn't matter. And if there is no cheating involved, then third party programs don't matter either.
I was most uncharitable to the fellow in reply.
Wish I'd been there ;)
--Pete
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