lol i was joking but you ended up righting another essay about some
pointless qustion.


"Galen" <galennews@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> In news:%23KhHhYMhFHA.272@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl,
> James <james@yahoo-mail.com> had this to say:
>
> My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:
>
> > i agree with mike, you are infact all wrong
>
> You're quite welcome to agree with anyone you'd like but I don't think you
> can say someone is wrong can you? After all we all have different taste in
> games probably. For me it was Zork which was a simple text based RPG in an
> age when graphics really weren't even considered really. Even if they were
> considered they were generally 8 bit Atari-like games such as Oregon
Trail,
> a few Amiga games, Intelivision, etc. At that time there was no other RPGs
> available and this game was pretty limited but, at that time, pretty
> limitless all things considered. (It even had the ability to save the game
> which was unlike most other games at that time and you could print out
your
> steps taken to reach the place you were at to make a map but on dot-matrix
> printers that took forever and a day.) So, from my perspective, that was
the
> greatest game. For some people the greatest computer game might be an
online
> game of poker, chess, or checkers... It might be coding in VB .NET or C#.
It
> might be designing Lego® Robots. It might be any one of a number of games.
> Each person is likely to have their own thoughts and there's no way that
we
> can say who is wrong and who is right. Who are we to judge another's
> opinions?
>
> Simply typing that you agree that the people who've responded were wrong
and
> not offering your opinions on the subject adds nothing to the conversation
> and benefits nobody as near as I am able to tell. Instead, in my opinion,
it
> would be better if you told us what you felt was the best game and why you
> felt it was the best. Then, for starters, we'd know where you were coming
> from to draw your conclusion. We'd be able to see what you were thinking
> about the game. We might be convinced to try the game. We might even then
> agree with you. The point of a newsgroup is to share, grow, learn, and
> teach. It's meant to exchange information (and opinions) but the opinions
> should be backed up with reason. To simply cite that you're convinced that
> everyone is wrong and you are right doesn't give us the opportunity to
> understand why you feel the way that you do nor does it give you the
chance
> to show us what you know and we (or at least I) welcome anyone's opinions.
>
> Galen
> --
>
> "But there are always some lunatics about. It would be a dull world
> without them."
>
> Sherlock Holmes
>
>