well I just listened to your file nickle.
Firstly, forcing views on others is not good.
I my self am christian.
Violence?
Ok I aggree some of the sighted games are violent our stuff has
stratogy, I'd never play violent games with no plot or anything.
There are loads of non violent games.
jims card game, and a few others.
The future of blind gaming, well I doubt that any of us would want a
click and shoot game either.
Its fine not to like harry potter or other stuff.
But Maybe if you don't like these thing you can make a game where
someone plants flowers in a guarden and see if it sells.
there is golf and other sport games.
There are text adventures not all would be your cup of tea but most would.
If you don't like a game don't play it.
as for the future, its unsertain.
Games could all go away.
Yeah right now I know, it looks bleak.
Most of the stuff is old and dusty.
But it will get better hopefully.
You may be puzzle orriententated more than some others.
At 05:24 a.m. 1/03/2011, you wrote:
Nicol,
There are two things I want to emphasise myself on this subject, and
I want you to be crystal clear on them..
Number one.
You believe what you want to believe. Don't let anybody brain wash
you into thinking that what I say goes and is the way forward in
life. If you are taught to believe something and you choose to
believe in it of your own free will, then that's fine. But then if
you still choose to preach the reason for your unhappiness to us,
then you are not going by your teachings, but by your own beliefs
regarding them.
If you want to believe that violent games is a way of showing love
for violence, then you go ahead and believe that. Nobody's stopping you.
This brings me very nicely onto point number two.
Please do not try and force those views, opinions and beliefs upon
us. Do not push a hose down our throats and turn the water on simply
because we don't want to drink just yet. There are very few games
out there for the visually impaired as it is, and the way you are
talking may just send more developers crashing to the ground like so
many others before. We should be thanking these guys for bringing
their creations out into the world. I certainly know that I have
been phased beforehand because of some of the thankless emails I
have received complaining about certain features or lack thereof in
my games and have, on more than one occasion, thought about simply
ditching the whole thing. I'm glad I haven't, since I do enjoy
making games. But I don't like some of the ingratitude that
sometimes follows a release.
What I always say is, if you simply don't like the game content, for
whatever reason, whether it be your beliefs or anything that is
personal, you know what you got to do. Just don't play it and stop
moaning at us. If you have anything constructive to say about it,
then by all means do so. But telling us to cut out the violence
simply because it isn't in your religion certainly is not very
constructive. It is more demanding and selfish, and independent
developers, who aren't exactly doing it as a full time job, do not
have neither the time nor the patience to be modifying the game
content just for the sake of a petty complaint.
I will bring forth another point on a slightly less firm note.
I am myself a Christian, but I don't not play games just because
they contain violence, whether in cartoon or gory fashion. My belief
is that fictional violence is fine, since it is not exactly
happening. It is just mixed up sound effects and graphics where
applicable. But I'm not going to tell you to start playing these
games because you should be believing the same as me.
Also, I do not believe that playing violent game shows a love for
violence. In fact, I am completely the opposite. If I see violence
on the street, or indeed anywhere, I would be one of the first to
put myself in between them and break it up. I have a partner whom I
love very dearly and brothers and sisters, nieces and nephews,
parents etc who always have my full support. And where new people
are concerned, I'm as shy as anything. Does that suggest a love for
violence to you?
There's another thing that God wants us to do.
Live and let live.
So why don't we all do that for a change, instead of getting into
flame wars, and sometimes even real wars as far as countries are
concerned, over the importance of religion?
OK, rant over.
Regards,
Damien.
----- Original Message ----- From: "NIcol" <nicoljaco...@telkomsa.net>
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Clement, about the martial arts.
Well, its quite simple.
We are taught at our meetings that martial arts is wrong in God's eyes.
Its as simple as that.
I am not part of the people who prepares the meetings, so I cannot tell you
why we are taught martial arts is wrong.
In our meetings there is no psychology, no complicated stuff.
Martial arts is violence and we are taught, everything connected to
violence is wrong because god hates violence; as simple as that.
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