On 11/26/07, David Goodman <dgoodmanny(a)gmail.com> wrote:
You apparently don't think its important that the
writers of a
contemporary computer game know something about some particular
important philosopher, and expect at least some of the players to
appreciate the reference.
I'm talking about when some kid thinks it's a crazy coincidence that
the character Voltaire in their favourite computer game has the same
name as an actual historical figure. Or when some level in a computer
game is named after an actual place...omg!
It's easy to denigrate the importance of the part
of the world we're
not interested in. It's been decades since I've seen a televised
wrestling match, and I intend to never see one in the future, but if I
ever do want to know about them, they'll be in WP. I never expect to
They'll be in WP, tucked away in that dirty corner I don't go into it
much. Do you really want to see links to wrestling articles from
history articles because some wrestler decided to name himself Alfred
the Great or something?
be on the Kuala Lumpur Monorail, but I might want see
a news or
fiction reference someday to something that happened there, and want
to know about the stations.
it just depends how significant the reference is. If one single KL
monorail station was the setting for an entire series of books that
was a cult classic in Mexico, it might be worth noting. If that
station was the first time that Joey and Sandy snogged after Sandy
broke up with Jimmy in the two-bit anime series "The KL Klub", I don't
want to hear about it.
Steve