Longknife

Also apparently wikipedia editing is srs business: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B8XsB7hCYAAY9Jz.jpg I just can't really picture myself having that kind of reaction. A reaction of "that's bull****" or "you gotta be kidding me," sure, but he sounds like he considers Loganmac his arch nemesis now. Dude wtf it's a wikipedia edit that no one will recognize you for. It's a very solitary act that hardly even qualifies as a hobby, why would he care THIS much?

I suspect the reality of publishing gets in the way here. Game Reviewers are probably more than likely backgrounded as gamers and not journalists (because one of the pre-requisites is being willing to play a lot of games for a long time). Game Reviewers probably don't get to finish a game before having to review it, making their reviews more of extended hands-on previews than reviews that can discuss the game as a totality (and thus keeping them from making more nuanced critical analysis if that is their want). Yeah don't get me wrong, my questions are practically rhetorical in that we all know the answer here. The answer is they're liars and not remotely professional. As I said, it was more of a second realization that these dudes are dragging the term "art" through the mud, alongside several others.

It is subjective, but to me there's art and there's art. Art is the idea of expression and should be defended to the grave, art is expression done eloquently and coherently. I don't mean to sound pretentious or condescending, I simply feel we'd all be lying to ourselves if we dared claim there isn't "art" that isn't art at all. We've all encountered something that technically qualifies as art that doesn't feel like art at all, and I don't think we should be afraid of acknowledging this truth. That said, trying to use that truth as a reason to go on a crusade to legislate art is part of the reason we're even having an issue with the video game industry, so you let that guy piss on the bible, you let that guy nail a banana to a wall and you let that guy make his giant buttplug tree in France. I merely wished to highlight that if someone were to ask me to put into words what makes Cowboy Bebop, Binding of Isaac, the Importance of Being Earnest, Fallout New Vegas or Death of a Salesman art (and I mean art), I could put it into words in the form of a speech or essay. Despite this, we apparently have an industry that's supposed to house people who write for a living - professional journalists - and yet they can't do this. To top it off, these very same journalists often claim art is what they'd like to see more of and that's the true reason why they're critical of the industry. But of course, "art" when spoken by them remains an ambiguous term and they make no attempts to define what art means to them (as I've done in my previous posts), and the result is a bunch of seemingly random incoherent judgements where a game that seems to meet their criteria will get completely overlooked while another that offers very very little in the way of artistic value gets resounding praise. All I'm saying is I've again realized (cause I'd already realized it before) that the term art is being dragged through the mud by these people, all in the interest of defending their corruption. And that to me is disgusting, especially when I'm now playing the first game I've wanted to praise artistically in years, and I see it's received no such praise by these alleged professionals. (or at least I haven't found any)

I was actually typing up another wall of text in response to this, but decided it's largely a tangent relating to my take on feminism and male-female interactions. What I do wanna say though is: When did feminism become synonymous with art? Dear Esther doesn't get more artistic points for being pro-feminism, that's not how it works. And yet we live in a day and age where video games journalism thinks this is the case. Art is about addressing an idea, concept, emotion, experience, or whatever that's SO important to you that you feel it's worth dedicating artistic work towards. Art is about making something that speaks for itself and represents that concept, to a degree that people who are also familiar with said concept can intuitively recognize something about the artistic work and enjoy it, whether they understand why or not. That's why people who can't let go of the past or have some life-changing event that haunts them or changed them (a LOT of people) are fond of Cowboy Bebop, that's why those who feel they've been lied to by society might enjoy Death of a Salesman, that's why those who feel plagued by a society that misses the point might enjoy the Importance of Being Earnest. THIS is art: Feminism is more politics, and has little to do with art, if anything at all. I think I've mentioned before that I took a couple english classes and for a term paper we had to interpret a classical work of literature in a way it hadn't been interpreted before (or reinforce a minority opinion in a meaningful way) using one of the interpretations we'd been taught. I actually chose feminism, and you know why? Because it was the easiest ****ing one, and the one with the most citation work to build off of. It wasn't out of an interest in the interpretation, it was a lament that the guidelines felt counter-intuitive and restrictive ("interpret a 400 year old work of literature in a way that hasn't really been done before using the preset interpretation guidelines taught to you" THEN IT'S NOT NEW IS IT. Sorry english majors, I think you guys learn some neat stuff, but the attempts to validate itself seemed like an absolute ****ing farce 90% of the time to me) and I couldn't actually write a paper the way I wanted, so I was copping out with the easy road. And big surprise, most of the class picked feminism too. But I digress... Again, my point is more that I feel these people wouldn't know art if it took a dump on their faces while they were sleeping. And yet here they are awkwardly claiming to know what's art, and they're actually getting paid for it, even when - as your post highlights - there's this weird belief within the industry that art is about political statements rather than expression. Yes there's a double standard in their methods, but even if there were not, their methods are fundamentally flawed to begin with. Wasn't my meaning. My meaning was more, video games have the exact same artistic potential as TV, cinema, literature and any other form of media. Despite this, thusfar developers primarily seem interested in realizing it's financial potential rather than it's artistic potential. We're an industry of Michael Bay films, where movies about explosions are the expected and accepted norm. I would not be against seeing this go 50-50 with mindless, fun entertainment vs. art rather than 95-5. I would not mind seeing game franchises like Elder Scrolls and Far Cry be motivated to hire at least one god damned writer worth a darned.

And even so, I meant more in that... I think there's one thing SJWs got right: games should be more artistic. My difference in opinion is I can recognize this is my wish whereas they seem to want to somehow legislate art, which I consider to breach freedom of speech. We also disagree on what makes something art. Make no mistake, games are art. Any form of media where one can express themselves has the capacity to be an art form; just because 95% of video games choose not to utilize this does not invalidate their capacity to do so. This is what amazes me though: they claim to want to see more artistic statements from art, and yet where are the articles attempting to disect meaning from games? Binding of Isaac has very short, ambiguous "endings" you get upon completion of a successful run. Me personally, I watch those endings and feel confused or uninformed. The curious part of me hates this, so I strive to dissect meaning from the endings, until I either do so or deem the game as a meaningless, pretentious piece of ****. Why does this not happen in games journalism? Why do we not see these very same journalists attempting to explain why something is art beyond empty statements such as "the story and characters are enchanting and memorable?" Why does the very same nitwit hooligan who claims "art without purpose/a statement is meaningless" fail to derive any meanings from New Vegas beyond "female hookers, MISOGYNY?" I could, quite easily, write up an explanation for you right now that explains my interpretation of the Isaac endings, what the story is as a whole and what meaning I personally derive from it, while also tying in the quality of the soundtrack and music in that explanation, all while combining all of that within a review of the game. It's not that hard, and yet I personally never see anything beyond empty statements from these journalists, as if there's this pretentious attitude of claiming to understand art and it's artistic value while not actually being able to explain why something is art. Flashy **** with lots of cinematics like Gone Home and Heavy Rain gets praised as art, subtle stuff that doesn't need flashy lights to make it's case like Dark Souls and Binding of Isaac gets COMPLETELY overlooked. Then lo and behold, go onto youtube or metacritic, Dark Souls has a big cult following that dissects every statue, every enemy and every item and finds purpose and story plot within it, whereas Binding of Isaac is ranked second amongst Metacritic scores. Meanwhile Far Cry 4 gets a pass for horrendous terriawful writing, much like 3 did. (at most journos acknowledged gamers thought the story sucked, but then gave the devs a platform with which to try and explain it) I'm confrontational by nature. I have a stance that no, not EVERYTHING is art like some willy nilly "EVERYBODY WINS AND IS SPECIAL!" label that you get just for making something. By all means if you make something, good for you, but let's not go about being so broad that CoD gets to be called art. No, to me art in a meaningful sense of the word means the creation has purpose and meaning that was expressed wonderfully and coherently, and yes, I do believe one can explain and analyze what makes something art in that sense of the term, and if you cannot, then it probably isn't art in that sense of the term. So overall tl;dr, the amount of claims that these guys know "art" while doing **** all to defend that claim, meanwhile neglecting titles that deserve the recognition, is insanity.

Irony moment: I felt compelled to write up something on another forum about how Binding of Isaac is art, an analysis of what it's trying to say and why it should qualify as art and not "just a game." I then realized I feel I could do a much ****ing better job at that than actual video games journalists. Not like in a "lol they're so bad anyone could do it," but like I feel analyzing stuff is something I'm good at. And here I am hunting for work while these guys are getting paid money and bribes to say "Far Cry 4 iz gewd, go buy it." Meanwhile the SJW crew wants to scream about how games need more artistic meaning, but they have a clear agenda and bias that prevents them from...yknow, actually recognizing the artistic titles. (New Vegas, Dark Souls (not 2. Sorry 2, you're a good game but you had no story), Binding of Isaac) Crazy world... :c

I've been told before that missing a limb could actually make me a better swimmer, though it was never explained how, and I'm not big on swimming anyways. You know what has a wonderful habit of ruining any event where a disabled person has to take their prosthetic off? Little kids. So yeah, not a big fan of going to the public pool.

Wasn't aware transgender people were all toasters. Isn't it expensive as **** to keep an attack like that running this long? Also, I've recently been playing the hell out of Binding of Isaac, and Judas is OP as ****. Magdalene, Jesus' friend who loved the D, is also pretty good, whereas Eve - a strong independent woman who eats apples and don't need no man - is kinda meh. Let's flip our lids and accuse the developers of Binding of Isaac being anti-religion and discriminatory because the game encourages playing as the guy who betrayed Jesus or encourages women to love the D instead of being independent if they want to survive.

Look at how much wrist she's showing, omg... Wish someone would move those books.

Archive today is being attacked. Because they are sexist. Yeah that's it.... ....Because they are sexist...

I googled sexy burka: Fun Fact: I have officially visited and posted in this thread more than the real counterpart.

That is Cheong, the other Asian dude with glasses that is stuck in to this. If there ever was a "try hard" to be a socially justice minded person on Twitter, it is him. Let's create a rhyme to help everyone distinguish the two: Chu wants to get laid by Zoe and Wu, Cheong wants to kill all that isn't the same race as Long(knife) That should help.

I actually knew this but took the excuse to post the video anyways because I was in the mood to post a video. I regret nothing.

Seriously wtf, girl seems like a sociopath. To be honest I'm amazed you guys are surprised GG is treating her "harshly" and frowning upon the site. Based on evidence from past endeavours she's been involved with, there's every reason to have skepticism with her goals and intentions.

Nah if that were the case, the Journalism corruption thread would get axed too.

Totally off-topic but gotta admit, the correlation between ridiculous hair dye colors and the inability to use facts, logic and evidence is beginning to seem pretty strong. Maybe somebody should actually research this. Bonus points for how the title of that video actually does ironically play into the "gamers are sexist!" narrative. xD

Speaking of the Escapist, how much does Jim Sterling make per month via Patreon?

It's the "progressive stack". A white male is mocking the religion of people of color. Thus "punching down". Thus unacceptable. Yo McIntosh, it's against my religion for the sexy women I hang out with to wear tops. Don't hate or you're oppressing me.

yeah it's quite schizophrenic - we want more womens in games but dont hurt them! Equality my ass The entire thing is schitzo. FFS McIntosh and Anita flip their lids if someone criticizes Muslim culture but simultaneously call themselves feminists. How exactly does that even work?

Btw, most underrated workout ever? Rock climbing. Seriously go try it. Imagine a workout where you don't have to feel the burn and instead you just feel awesome. That's rock climbing.

With all due respect, that to me is a mentality that allows your disability to define who you are rather than recognizing it as just one trait. I get very sick of all the emails I get from well-meaning friends showing off Blade Runner or whoever the disabled guy of the hour is saying "look how fast he runs! See you can do it too!!" Cool, except 1) He's wearing prosthetics costing 10's of thousands of dollars which are already well known to be fast as God himself but are only available to richer folks, so this is nothing new, and 2) why does having one leg automatically imply I have this dream of running fast? I don't, I don't give a ****. I also like how the thread has a tone of "I'm out of Youtube, now what can I do to fill the void" (though it's joking of course) and the top recommendation is fitness, because that's exactly what a person who used to sit on their ass watching videos would wanna jump right into.

Felt depressed.

Start power lifting. * is predictable * longknife has mentioned more than once that he is disabled, so, depending on the type o' disability, that may not be the ideal advice. Could, but lifting with only one leg is basically akin to doubling the weight being lifted, so it'd be hard and require more effort. Also probably not a wise idea since knees are notoriously bad at coping with age. People who lift furniture often have back and knee problems as they get older and I'd imagine I'd be more susceptible to this since I got only one knee getting twice the normal stress. Professional p0rn watcher sounds better since my junk works perfectly. Where do I sign up for that?

I don't know this wonderful feeling. Senpai never notices me, regardless of the Senpai. I got a comment on Vinny's Tomodachi Life soap opera series with 290 upvotes and tons of people saying they were gonna email the comment to Vinny or the like cuz amazing comment, and he still didn't notice me. :C Wait, I had a conversation with a porn star about various studies regarding video games, violence and sex. Nevermind, I don't need senpai.