sunrise089 Wrote:@Rowain - My only question (and this is if Athlete really does attack slaze with his own gifted army) is whether you read anything into the personal morals, ethics, or values of Ron Artest, or Barry Bonds, or the kid who gets mad at the way the game is going and knocks the monopoly game on the floor?
Without knowing Artest or Bonds I will talk about the kid. If the kid can't lose and throws the game on the floor than he behaves unsportmanslike. He acts against the spirit of gaming itself and should be teached a lesson. Threatening to leave the game if a certain deal gets broken is in my view equaly unsportmanslike does change how I view the persons morality.
If a player for example reads spoiler threats to gain advantages or reloads till he get favourable results then yes he is of low morality as this are outside of the game actions violating the rules. But a player who plays by the rules is completly right to do so. In the board game 'Civilization' deals/trades have to be honored in the game 'Diplomacy' it is explicitly stated in the rules that deals/treaties can be broken at leisure. In fact if you want to win you must break the one or other deal and still those actions do not reflect on a persons personal real-life morality.
If we start to use ingame actions to judge Outside-behaviour we can get to extrem sillyness without much effort. Just as an example:
Being the 200 pound Brute who stomps over little kids is for sure a sign of low morale so what do we do with India's actions vs Greece? Was Sulllas/Speaker stomping over poor Jowy not exactly the same? (and I mean strictly the ingame military rompage).