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David is an occasional blogger, software engineer, Nintendo fanboy, liberal, news magazine addict, voracious TiVo user, and bibliophile. He was born in St. Louis, grew up in southern Indiana, and returned to St. Louis to attend Washington University. He hasn't managed to escape yet. He's a fan of free wine tastings, too many tv shows to name, and eating out. David makes his living developing web applications used internally by his employer. He doesn't blog about work because he's heard too many stories about that causing workplace troubles. There's more on the about page. |
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13 December 2000
I should be in bed now, as it is 3:32am. Instead, I have chosen to write to you, faithful reader. I made this decision with your best interests at heart. I put your wants and needs before my own. This should make you very happy. Now that you know the sacrifices I am making for you, reading this post should be the highlight of your day.
Phil told me today that building a backdoor into my same game to ensure that I could always get a high score would be unfulfilling, as I would get more pleasure out of writing a program that others are better at than me. I find it hard to believe that Phil knows me better than I know myself (I almost wrote "...that Phil knows what gives me pleasure," but I caught myself in time), so I don't really see how this argument makes sense. Nonetheless, it did spark another argument in our suite: Is it acceptable to use cheats when playing games? I think so, mainly because I don't like losing. michael, who calls himself a "game purist," disagrees. Tell us what you think.
michael finished his Tetris game today, and it looks very cool. You should email him and tell him to post a copy.
Posted by on 13 December 2000 at 12:01 AM
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