[gameprogrammer] Re: Are AO games bad for CVs?

I think it is a really good idea...so can you tell me when you selling
it?????????

On Jan 11, 2008 11:00 PM, Bob Pendleton <bob@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
> On Fri, 2008-01-11 at 10:23 +0100, Sam Nova wrote:
> > > Here is something you should read:
> > >
> > > <quotation>
> > > In 1970 President Richard Nixon appointed the President's
> > > Commission on Obscenity and ography, also known as the
> > > Lockhart Commission. The commission's eighteen members spent
> > > over $2 million reviewing the extant research, interviewing
> > > experts, and also funding a survey of its own. The final
> > > report concluded that there was no evidence demonstrating any
> > > significant social harm from ography depicting consenting
> > > adults, and recommended that existing obscenity laws should
> > > be repealed. President Nixon refused to accept either the
> > > report or the commission's conclusions. </quotation>
> > >
> > > You really should look up that report. If you can find it.
> > >
> > > To the best of my knowledge there is no, zero, zip, evidence
> > > that the availability of material depicting
> > > consenting adults does any damage to individuals or society.
> > > On the contrary, sexually open societies seem to have less
> > > problems with crimes than do sexually repressive societies.
> > >
> > > If you can not personally verify that something is true, it
> > > probably isn't.
> >
> > So that was before the 'computer' and 'vhs/dvd' age, where people had a
> > much more limited access to and violent material. Just look back
> > the last 10 years of games and see how much it changed.
> >
> > I'm just saying that the report might not reflect the world we are
> > living in now but at the same time I'm not saying that games and the
> > movies are 'triggers' for bad behaviour. Would be great if they redid
> > the research to get to the bottom of this. Sure you often see it in TV
> > that some did some very limited research and yes, sometimes they say
> > games are bad for you, but I see teachers, professors, shrinks say just
> > the opposite (that games are not reasons for people going crazy). Guess
> > we will never really know.
> >
> > I guess it is down to the people who develop games to decide if they can
> > accept the type of game they are developing. I'm much more into kids
> > games now (got two kids myself) than I was before but I'm not skipping a
> > session of Gears of War from time to time ;-)
>
> I guess it is time to wrap up this discussion. It is of course all a
> matter of your personal moral code and being able to look at your self
> in the mirror. I have very strong feelings on these matters as do most
> people. (I once quit the cushiest job in the world with a 6 figure
> income because I could not stand working for what I consider to be an
> immoral company.)
>
> The whole issue of what is and is not moral is one that we will not
> solve on this list. I wish we could. The trouble is that any final
> agreement on morality has to be accepted by all humans, it can not be
> imposed by anyone on any else. (Of, course, that last statement is based
> on my own views of morality which I know are not shared by many of
> people I have met. :-)
>
>        Bob Pendleton
>
> >
> > -Sam
> > ---------------------------------------
> > Blog: http://www.SamuelNova.com
> > Games Portal: http://www.NovaCastle.com
> >
> >
> >
> > >
> > >     Bob Pendleton
> > >
> > >
> > > >
> > > >         Hi,
> > > >
> > > >         An , SM stuff, offered me some really
> > > nice money for
> > > >         a simple game, not bloddy, and I'm considering to make it.
> > > >         Since this would be the first game with my name on it and
> > > >         since I'm really serious about getting into game business I
> > > >         would like to ask the professionals here: Should I
> > > accept the
> > > >         offer?
> > > >         It's not about money, since I have a nicely well paid part
> > > >         time job. But that's something I could in my free time,
> > > >         quickly, nice payment, nice number of users and it's not
> > > >         agains my religion (hehe). I WON'T do it just for
> > > the money, I
> > > >         would do it ONLY if I can use it on my CV.
> > > >         What do you think? A nice game studio would reject
> > > my CV if I
> > > >         put a game like this into my application?
> > > >
> > > >         Thanks,
> > > >         Dirso
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
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