Gaming Now and 20 Years Ago

Anonymous Coward writes "A cool comparison of video games from the same genre, the only difference is about 20 years of technical development. The Bard's tale vs World of Warcraft is really funny."

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Re:Deeper level comparision

[albino eatpod]

Yes, it's called "marketing", you might have heard of it. Welcome to the 21st century.

Re:"Article" begs the question...

[hyfe]

I'm foreign.. hence, I learn phrases from their actual usage and not their archaic meanings.

Now, 'begging the question' as good as always means the article is practically begging the question to be asked; ie the question is written in bold-faced gigantic invisible letters inbetween the lines and you'd be a bloody retard if you didn't spot it.

'Begging the question' might have been used for a fairly limited context in old times. But I don't care much about that, since old times aren't now. More importantly the phrase actually does make sense in the modern usage. The wikipedia article states that it's used as a synomym for 'raises the question', which I really don't agree with. There is a slight difference in who the one raising the question is. With 'raises the question' the subtext is "I'm so smart that I'm asking this really insightfull question', while with 'begs the question' the subtext is 'this is so stupid, anybody reading this will point this out!'.

In my opinion, holding on to precision and subtetlies in language is a very worthwhile cause. Crusading against stuff that actually makes sense just because your grandfather used the phrase slightly differently is just inane. Language is just communication. If a phrase actually is easy enough for a foreigner to actually understand the first time he's reading it, there is nothing bloody wrong with phrase. If anything, there might be something wrong the archaic definition!