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From CRPG Addict
Apr. 24th, 2021 10:34 amA comment I left on the CRPG Addict blog.
As another person whose ethical system originated from Ultima, I think I have a new way to look at the difficulties you've faced when it comes to skipping ahead.
You develop your conscience by developing your virtues; and there are such things as intellectual virtues and a conscience of the intellect. Intellectual virtues include such traits as discipline, thoroughness, rigor, and openness. (By the last, I mean being open to criticism and suggestions.) And of those four, "thoroughness" and "openness" certainly characterize the blog; you reviewed Dragon Warrior, of all things.
The conscience, including the intellectual conscience, speaks when conscious reasoning goes astray; and to me it sounds like your intellectual conscience spoke up when it came to time to skip ahead. This might be because skipping was too big a departure from your vision for the blog, or it might be because there was an unnoticed flaw in the method you intended to use.
Say you used random number generation to select the game. This still leaves open the possibility of randomly selecting, say, Fallout, and then you'd face the prospect of "properly" reaching 1996 having already played its best game. But I don't know what method you chose, so I can only speculate.
Anyway. Thanks as always for a venue in which to articulate my thoughts. More than two decades on I remain a proponent of virtue ethics, and you can see why.
As another person whose ethical system originated from Ultima, I think I have a new way to look at the difficulties you've faced when it comes to skipping ahead.
You develop your conscience by developing your virtues; and there are such things as intellectual virtues and a conscience of the intellect. Intellectual virtues include such traits as discipline, thoroughness, rigor, and openness. (By the last, I mean being open to criticism and suggestions.) And of those four, "thoroughness" and "openness" certainly characterize the blog; you reviewed Dragon Warrior, of all things.
The conscience, including the intellectual conscience, speaks when conscious reasoning goes astray; and to me it sounds like your intellectual conscience spoke up when it came to time to skip ahead. This might be because skipping was too big a departure from your vision for the blog, or it might be because there was an unnoticed flaw in the method you intended to use.
Say you used random number generation to select the game. This still leaves open the possibility of randomly selecting, say, Fallout, and then you'd face the prospect of "properly" reaching 1996 having already played its best game. But I don't know what method you chose, so I can only speculate.
Anyway. Thanks as always for a venue in which to articulate my thoughts. More than two decades on I remain a proponent of virtue ethics, and you can see why.
