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Originally Posted by Mesden
Opinions don't have to be legitimate, though. Though who's to say his opinion is unjustified? He believes that the direct interactivity aspect of games separates them from art. I don't know whether he has or not interacted with a game before but if he has then his opinion on that particular matter (which is the one matter he states as his argument) is legitimate. Frankly, if he had a reasonable statement that movies aren't art because X inherent quality is not art and is found in all movies, then his opinion is at the very least justified, if considered silly by others.
He's just an old guy with an unpopular but well worded opinion.
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Yeah, sure, by I took offense to your use of 'legitimate reason'.
Like I said, I don't give two shits about his actual opinion because it has no legitimacy.
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Originally Posted by Fifthfiend
Chess does literally all of those things. Proverbially speaking, it was explicitly created to do that first thing you said.
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Care to substantiate that claim?
'Cause I can't actually find any information on why Shatranj was invented, and the closest I can find to an actual reason for playing chess was nobles during the rennaissance period (at which point Chess had been around in various form for centuries), using it to study tactics.
Which is a lot different, in and itself, from making socio-political commentary.