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In article <-F7BOR2@xds13.ferranti.com> peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
>In article <1991May9.004140.1116@tc.fluke.COM> kurt@tc.fluke.COM (Kurt Guntheroth) writes:
>> I can't believe all this <expletive> about the programming contest.  How is
>> football or basketball like real life.  It's a CONTEST.  Y'know, a GAME?
>
>And what's a game? A model of a system. The closer it gets to reality within
>the constraints on playability, the better. Look at any war game out there.
>Eastern Front, or Afrika Corps. These games are considered the tops because
>of the level of detail and the closeness to reality.
>

I have to admit that I read the above paragraph at least three times
before I could believe what I was seeing. Would those games become even
more popular if the players ran an actual risk of death or injury? 

I would appreciate some self-editorship else this newsgroup risks being
swamped. I usually try not to respond, but this comment was just too much,
especially with our "just war" so recently over.

mike
-- 
But then, that's one of the great things about living in America:
moral superiority is so damned cheap.
		-- James Crumley "The Wrong Case"