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Comment on Assassin’s Creed by Wolf

Wolf — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 03:35:16 +0000

What do you mean, Serious Moral Judgments? It’s a game. You stab a person made out of pixles with a sword made out of pixels, and the Animated “Templar” does the death animation and dies. It’s simply a game. No moral obligaions needed. And if you won’t play it, some one else will. Don’t gripe about something you can’t change.

Comment on ‘The Crusader’s Tale’ – In Production by Danny

Danny — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:30:49 +0000

Weeeell! Looks like my production finally is being publicly announced! Thanks Paul!

~ Macar de Tier or, if you prefer, the director of the production stated above

Comment on Assassin’s Creed by jason

jason — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 18:06:48 +0000

I recently purchased this game because the gameplay and graphics looked awesome. Having installed it, I find the ideology distrubing. Granted, not everyone will agree with me, but to each his own. As a Christian, I wrestled with the idea of having to slay Templar Knights and found that it simply didn’t accord with my sense of morality. Yes, its only a game, but one that made me feel increasingly uncomfortable – to the extent that I removed it and chucked it in the cupboard. Why? Because I disapprove of mixing religion and gaming. To me gaming is escapism. Fun. Or at least I believe it should be. Being forced to make serious moral judgements between choices that to me are equally unappealing is not enjoyable.

Comment on The Feminization of the Masculine Icon by Dallas

Dallas — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 19:13:30 +0000

Your point is right on here. The implications cannot be overestimated. Thank you for this insightful commentary on life imitating art.

Comment on Call To Arms by OK

OK — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 01:15:07 +0000

Master Paul X

A well drawn sword. Youth isn’t always “wasted on the young” it would seem. To be candid, sometimes it is with more ease that a young man casts hazard to the wind when action is required. The older man can be paralyzed by his many responsibilities and concerns… by his need to maintain his status quo. I know first hand.

The more experienced leaders at Lepanto felt their may be a way to avoid the conflict looming just ahead, but the young leader from Austria, empowered by the pope, kept them from the middle position… the lukewarm, “safe” response that their experience suggested may be possible. Thanks to the young man, whose devotion to Our Lady was well known, the Holy League prepared to meet the enemy, erected the Cross upon their bows and crushed the crescent-shaped wave of galleys that sailed against them with the help of a “favorable wind”.

There is a time for diplomacy, and a time for battle. Seeking the path of least resistance is seldom the proper course, long term. To a large extent, diplomacy has gotten us the world in which we find ourselves. I agree with you that it is time to do what is necessary to extricate ourselves from it. Living in the shadow cast by utilitarian-and-quickly-becoming-totalitarian storm clouds is hardly living at all. We need only pick a battle and get engaged. There are many fronts. Something for every taste… or, as it were, distaste. If we freeze and do nothing, we simply leave a larger, more emboldened elite for the next generation to contend with. I don’t believe this is what we want for our children and theirs… though it would appear, Master Paul, that the next generation may have its own fire and ire building.

Vaya Con Dios.