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From: erkyrath@netcom.com (Andrew Plotkin)
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Bob Adams (amster@amster.demon.co.uk) wrote:
> > Well, thanks to Pierre Tremblay you can now play AGT games on Macs.
> [...]
> > I don't want to be too rude, since I know there are some AGT fans around 
> >here, (the co-author of the system not least among them) but the games I 
> >tried out were, frankly, pretty dreadful.

> What an absolutely daft comparison! To judge the quality of the writing
> utility by the quality of some third-party written games is quite
> frankly, ludicrous.

> Is a badly driven Rolls Royce a poorly built car?

But is a badly driven vehicle a badly driven Rolls Royce, or a 
horse-wagon careening downhill?

(Is this metaphor a careening wagon? Sorry.)

Put it this way: build a system that even a fool can use, and guess what?

No, I'm not being rude to AGT authors here, since I still haven't played
any AGT games. 

I'm being rude to people who use "WorldBuilder", on the Mac.

Phoo.

--Z

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