If you're playing another person, then the technology is just a kind of electronic board the game is played on--sort of like playing chess by mail. I'm not saying that playing with real people is findamentally more legitimate, or even detectable as being different than playing against a machine. A really good chess program is indistinguishable from a person by its play, sort of a Turing Test by game instead of by language.
It's the personal contact, the gossiping between moves, the comments on good or bad plays, the reminiscences of other encounters, the banter and the psychology and mind games that go with any contest against a human opponent, that make games worthwhile. This is why playing well but still losing to a good friend is often so much more satisfying than demolishing a stranger, and why losing to an enemy can be almost unendurable.
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That deaf, dumb, blind kid sure plays a mean pin ball.
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- Anger Management
- Here's hoping the anger subsides, soon.
- So seconded, sans sayonara swan song.
- Take care E' (n/t)
- All these folks are bothering.
- Am I missing something?
- Take a breather...
- Sorry to hear it
- I hope
- Embarrassed?
- Not really almost gone
- "...doing your best to drive Tom out of the HZ"
- I head the 'bites the dust' comment as a taunt aimed at fox
- Embarrassed?
- "And another one gone, and another one gone- Another one bites the dust. Hey Hey." (n/t)
- :( (n/t)
- I'll bother to post this:
- Another voice of reason shouted down? (n/t)