Re: Heroism: "more symbolic than useful"?

From: Nick_Brooke_at_...
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 18:34:55 -0000


Bruce wrote:

>> That seems a strange thing to say. Aren't *lots* of heroic
>> actions going to be more "symbolic" than "useful"? I'd have
>> thought HW games would *encourage* these, not disparage them.
 

> That's exactly the point. And they do. Or, at least my ones do.

And so would mine. But (from reading what he wrote) I didn't get the impression Christian's would. Which is why I wrote.

But Christian's games would, too. It's just that he didn't use the phrasing he wanted to. So we've been going round in circles, really.

Cheers, Nick

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