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Icycalm
http://insomnia.ac/commentary/on_the_genealogy_of_art_games/
I have trouble understanding how someone that pretentious could hate art games so much.
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You can be pretentious about anything. It's all about what the pretense itself is.
Also: I was expecting the long scrollbar on that page to be for the comments section that isn't there JESUS FUCK!
It is with extreme disgust that I write this letter and say what will
Thustruly be considered jaundiced by some of my peers. Nonetheless, it
must be stated that Mr. Derek Yu's ventures are a disgrace and an
outrage. Unless you share my view that Mr. Yu has an oversized ego that
is second to none, there's no need for you to hear me further. I
strive to be consistent in my arguments. I can't say that I'm 100% true
to this, but Mr. Yu's frequent vacillating leads me to believe that his
assistants are too impuissant to stand up to him. That's the sort of
statement that some people allege is ophidian but which I believe is
merely a statement of fact. And it's a statement that needs to be made
because he keeps trying to traffic in our blood, our birthright, and our
security. And if we don't remain eternally vigilant, he will decidedly
succeed. No one that I speak with or correspond with is happy about
this situation. Of course, I don't speak or correspond with
self-absorbed usurers, Mr. Yu's confreres, or anyone else who fails to
realize that Mr. Yu must have recently made a huge withdrawal from the
First National Bank of Lies. How else could he manage to tell us that
one can understand the elements of a scientific theory only by reference
to the social condition and personal histories of the scientists
involved?
spoke Mr. Derek Yu of The Independent Gaming Source in response to
increasingly hostile reactions against the newly created pseudo-category
of pseudo-artistic trash games, thereby obliterating every last trace
of respect I had for him. Or, to be more precise, almost all respect,
because one cannot fail to be impressed by the shamelessness with which
he comes out and hurls his insults — such brazen impudence will always
command respect. To come out and trash the labor of entire generations
of master game designers with the insidious implication that their work
is not and has never been art, all the while keeping a straight face,
and even with an air of self-righteousness and indignation about him —
that is no mean feat, even for an indie bum — that is to say the meanest
of the mean. One must have lost all sense of decency, one must have
lost all self-respect, one must have nothing left to lose — in addition
to being a great actor, otherwise one cannot do, one cannot even dream
of doing such things.
I cannot tell the difference between that blog and this random complaint generator.
^^ TL;DR: Art is only supposed to give people pleasure. If it's not doing that, then it's boring people to death. Anyone who calls something in the latter category art is a "child-fagot" whose mother didn't like them reading comic books. In fact, the highest form of art is the Hollywood action movie, since it's the most emotionally powerful of genres.
I'm not even sure which one is supposed to be which!
EDIT: BOO FUCKING MICROSOFT WORD YOU LIED TO ME
Oh my God, he has a team of editors!
http://insomnia.ac/contact/
Can you even imagine what this article must've looked like in its unedited state?