23rd May 2005, 9:41 PM
My "beef" with the numeric system can really be summed up this way. If it was possible to enumerate opinions, then I would agree that it would be an effective tool. It's not so much a matter of whether or not one can be objective, I do believe that is important for the actual text. It's really a matter, to me, of the fact that numbers are really intended for very concrete things that actually exist and can have some math applied to them, and really I can see no way in which a numerical value can really be assigned to such fuzzy concepts as game satisfaction. It's really more along the lines of a philosophical and logical issue, and I only stick to it because I can adhere to the rather unusual scrupples I develop pretty fastidiously. I'm not so stuck on that that I would start a war over it. I'd give a numberical value if I had to (though I likely wouldn't put much thought into it, maybe giving things a "I liked it/10" rating or something as a joke now and again, to remind people of my stance). I just thought I'd bring it up. They went ahead and slackened on that, which I appreciate, but again, it was nothing worth starting a war over, just something I felt worth pointing out for a moment to see what they'd say.
I don't believe any issue is black and white, not in the sense of "right and wrong". What I mean is that there are LEVELS of the amount of care people can have. There ARE stages between "I don't care at all" and "JIHAAAAAD!".
I don't believe any issue is black and white, not in the sense of "right and wrong". What I mean is that there are LEVELS of the amount of care people can have. There ARE stages between "I don't care at all" and "JIHAAAAAD!".
"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)