30th April 2004, 12:13 PM
YOU said that wandering around just to explore without actually accomplishing an in game goal was "for nothing", so I had to point out that games really ARE for nothing in the grand scheme of things, working on YOUR terms there. Of COURSE they are for something if you think them to be, but from what you said it would seem like you only think games count for something if you can accomplish the goals they originally intended, or if you can get a perfect save file to impress other people with or something.
"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)