"The software in a video game is doing a practical job. You aren't looking at
a ROM and admiring its beauty."
Well, I think here is the core of our disagreement.
I am not looking at the rom itself but at the GAME and admiring its beauty.
And no, i'm not working with it, not at all.
"You are loading it onto a computer and executing the software contained
within it. That software is what makes the game experience work."
This conclusion i cannot understand at all.
Game experience is never work for me; my pc might "work", but i'm not.
If I look at a painting (art) that is displayed by a electronic photoframe, i
also don't do any work but the technical device does.
Sure it's not working like a cpu but this technical distinction does actually
not matter at all in reality; at least i don't see any reason why it should
matter.
And even if the photo frame would be -technically- a tiny computer that can't
do anything but displaying a fixed set of preinstalled images, i still just
look at art while i'm using it, though the device might be "working".
I think you're running in some kind of paradox here.
