[MD] Food for Thought

[Dan Glover]

Hello everyone

>From: "ARLO J BENSINGER JR" <ajb102 at psu.edu>
>Reply-To: moq_discuss at moqtalk.org
>To: moq_discuss at moqtalk.org
>Subject: Re: [MD] Food for Thought
>Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2007 15:49:57 -0500
>
>[Dan]
>In a hundred years, where will that new shared reality be? Can you honestly 
>say
>that anyone alive then will give a shit one way or another about the games 
>you
>are playing? You may as well be sitting in front of a tv set.
>
>[Arlo]
>Dan, I could make the same argument against playing basketball, or fishing, 
>or
>hiking, or golifing, or chess... who'se gonna care in 100 years about the 
>hikes
>you take?

[Dan]
You're right. No one is going to care. Unless I write about taking hikes and 
playing basketball and fishing. And if I write well enough perhaps one day 
in a hundred or two hundred or many even in a thousand years someone might 
just read what I wrote and gain some small value from the words. That will 
never change as long as there's reading human beings.

Games change so that in a few years all the games of today will seem 
outdated and mediocre by comparision. It doesn't matter how well a person 
plays the game if the game is no longer worth playing. All the time the 
player puts into honing skills is lost.

But I could be wrong,

Dan