Re: Sokoban - cheating?

Quoting Wolfram <johannm@xxxxxxxxx>:
>In my (humble, non-ascended) opinion, taking a backup is always
>save-scumming. Otherwise you start going down a slippery slope, where
>you start justifying to yourself that whatever killed you/robbed away
>your cool artifact/annoyed you was not your fault, and therefore you
>can use your backup.

Well, one doesn't have to. I've taken backups for years on
not-entirely-stable platforms - frex I used to keep savefiles on the CF
card on my Psion, which can't write with too-low batteries - and I've
never been the least bit tempted to use them for anything except machine
instability.

[Using "restore" on the Psion is a PITA because you have to slurp the
files off onto an NT machine.]

Of course the original situation is not a gray area at all.
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David Damerell <damerell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Distortion Field!
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