28th April 2005, 3:13 PM
You know, that's not entirely logical... To insist that one must be wrong about ANYTHING they say because SOME things they say have been wrong in the past isn't entirely logical. To say you are skeptical of what they say because of the past is more logical. To say there is some sort of absolute sense of art however, well, I have yet to see any member of the scientific community state what is and is not art, and since science is the only thing that can say with any sort of certainty what Is and Is Not, then I must say that art is, well, subjective to the utmost as far as we can tell. This may go far to explain why scientists, as a general rule, have some very odd tastes in fiction.
Oh and, lots of MMORPGs keep your characters indefinitely. This isn't exactly one of those mind you, I'm just saying that games like WOW and such keep character data on their servers no matter how long you've had your account actually CANCELLED OUTRIGHT. By contrast, Square-Enix will delete characters 3 months after the account they are assigned to was cancelled. It's popular because it's Final Fantasy, meaning a lot of the players have no idea that that is NOT a standard practice, so they don't know enough to realize they should be complaining.
Anyway, as you may or may not realize, I've done a lot of background research on these types of games, just trying to figure out what each one offers and such. I've only played a few thanks to generous friends and/or open betas though.
Oh and, lots of MMORPGs keep your characters indefinitely. This isn't exactly one of those mind you, I'm just saying that games like WOW and such keep character data on their servers no matter how long you've had your account actually CANCELLED OUTRIGHT. By contrast, Square-Enix will delete characters 3 months after the account they are assigned to was cancelled. It's popular because it's Final Fantasy, meaning a lot of the players have no idea that that is NOT a standard practice, so they don't know enough to realize they should be complaining.
Anyway, as you may or may not realize, I've done a lot of background research on these types of games, just trying to figure out what each one offers and such. I've only played a few thanks to generous friends and/or open betas though.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)