Comments on: All Hope Abandon http://sweetjoni.wordpress.com/2008/02/20/all-hope-abandon/ Just another WordPress.com weblog Thu, 10 Sep 2009 14:50:38 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Jason Dyer http://sweetjoni.wordpress.com/2008/02/20/all-hope-abandon/#comment-2 Jason Dyer Sun, 24 Feb 2008 02:13:13 +0000 http://sweetjoni.wordpress.com/?p=14#comment-2 "Accepting" is a bit much -- you're referring to the particular flashpoint where something becomes famous enough to be controversial, and no interactive fiction fits that definition. By the same reasoning you'll hardly find people up in arms about <a href="http://www.wurb.com/if/game/2829" rel="nofollow">Jesus of Nazareth</a>, where Jesus slays stuff in RPG-style combat. The type of media is also vital for these sorts of things. Nobody cared about The Last Temptation of Christ until it was made into a movie. “Accepting” is a bit much — you’re referring to the particular flashpoint where something becomes famous enough to be controversial, and no interactive fiction fits that definition. By the same reasoning you’ll hardly find people up in arms about Jesus of Nazareth, where Jesus slays stuff in RPG-style combat.

The type of media is also vital for these sorts of things. Nobody cared about The Last Temptation of Christ until it was made into a movie.

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