Re: Hardcore Computist Magazine online...

["vector" <someasshole@aol.com>]

On Sat, 14 Feb 2004 22:10:13 -0500, Paul Guertin wrote:

> I probably had more fun boot-tracing The Bard's Tale, and hacking the
> data disks to give my characters 65535 hit points, than actually playing
> the game -- which of course I played honestly, otherwise why play? The
> hacking part was my reward for winning.

I respectfully disagree.  The point of a game is its challenge to beat it,
right?  If I hack it myself, I credit that as a valid victory.  That's the
original out-of-the-box thinking -- "How can I beat this system into doing
what I want?"  If it's easier to win with a hex editor than straight game
play, as long as the hack is yours, you win.  Using someone else's patch
or saved game files, now *that* is cheating.