From: Emlyn O'regan (oregan.emlyn@healthsolve.com.au)
Date: Tue Jun 11 2002 - 00:01:32 MDT
I'm a big fan of first person shooters, as well as real time strategy; the
more gore, the better! However, when recently offered a job involving
building software which actually looks like a strategy game, but is in fact
a battlefield command system (ie: the units are real), I had to turn it
down; I couldn't bring myself to build stuff that helps to kill people. It's
a pity, really; the experience I gained would have been invaluable in
getting work making games. Some kinda weird irony there I think... in the
end, it's important that r=239,g=44,b=10 isn't actually blood.
Emlyn
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Samantha Atkins [mailto:samantha@objectent.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, 11 June 2002 2:08 PM
> To: extropians@extropy.org
> Subject: Re: more funny [was fluff]
>
>
> It is not the violence itself that turns me off so much as the
> gratuitous indulgence in violence and abhorrent attitudes that
> many of the players would never display or want any part of in
> real life. It is all so one-sided. One can engage in rage and
> murder endlessly with no risk to oneself and often not even much
> real gore from the act to give one a moment's pause.
>
> The classic battle of good against evil is a timeworn favorite
> that I have no problem with per se and may have real and deep
> value as metaphor. Seeing quite complex situations is such
> simplistic terms is much more prolematic while taking sheer joy
> in nothing but killing as "entertainment" is to my mind much worse.
>
> I have far less problem with strategy games of various kinds.
>
> - samantha
>
> Olga Bourlin wrote:
>
> > From: "Samantha Atkins" <samantha@objectent.com>>
> >
> >>Personally I have never found "virtual space" violence any more
> >>palatable than the physical space variety. I abhor both.
> ... Where
> >>does reality end and virtuality begin?
> >>
> >
> > First let me say ... I don't know.
> >
> > But I wonder if watching action films or reading comic
> books with a lot of
> > ... good guy/bad guy (gender-not-specific use of "guy"
> here) PUMMEL!-
> > KAPOW!- WHOOSH!-type stuff would also qualify as gratuitous
> violence? What
> > about (some) fairy tales? Or horror films? I recall
> reading Bertrand
> > Russell wrote of his fondness for murder mysteries and
> detective novels. He
> > implied it tamed his beasty nature ... and he was a
> world-class pacifist.
> >
> > Olga
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