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General Chat / Re: Good morning 2015: Creative topic title goes here.

« on: December 23, 2015, 07:35:46 PM »

If Ruby Rose dressed up as Cloud Strife or Irvine Kinneas, I would leave my man. Not like I haven't done something similar before.


H a p p y Holid a a a a y s s s s RPGDL.

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General Chat / Re: Movies

« on: December 22, 2015, 05:42:35 PM »

Saw Star Wars. I don't care for the series, but I liked the movie. Also, Kylo Ren deserves an Emmy for his hair, the sonofaBenedictCumberbatch clone.

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General Chat / Re: Good morning 2015: Creative topic title goes here.

« on: December 17, 2015, 10:21:28 PM »

The end is nigh! I am almost ready to start complaining about a new job.

Offer in hand for one, wrapping up interviews with another. Either way, I'm 99% sure I'll be somewhere new early next year. The relief I feel is palpable.

Awesome!

p.s. I would like you to compare and contrast this statement with your comments re: adulthood.  You're so there.

this.

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Discussion / Re: Thoughts on gamergate

« on: December 16, 2015, 04:51:11 PM »

I kinda doubt it ever will.  I remember the 'Art of Gaming' stuff, and my impression from the outside looking in was, "oh hey the Art world picked up on the fact that videogames have a visual component...aaaaaaaaaaaand that's as far as they've gotten.  Like they understand that if you dissect a game you can root around in its innards and pull out some Art.  But seem not to to quite get that the game as a sum of its parts has value as well.

Yeah, the exhibition was a hijacking, and the catalogue is very bad. They did not appeal to any expert gamers or designers; people encountered tons of game art; many games "on view" were on unplayable mock machines and more. When I visited, I saw either old or young people and few of ages in-between. I believe Ian Bogost in game design at Ga Tech was the only to review the show. I do think of games as gesamtkunstwerk as you're describing, but museums are so outpaced by technology that the most they could do today is incorporate. RE: your second paragraph was on point.

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General Chat / Re: Good morning 2015: Creative topic title goes here.

« on: December 10, 2015, 05:51:33 PM »

I'm holding onto the fantasy of sexy30s as I turn 28 this Saturday.

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Discussion / Re: Thoughts on gamergate

« on: December 09, 2015, 06:50:30 PM »

Art critics of other mediums don't need to respect games for them to be art.  All the people actually consuming games don't even need to respect games for them to be art.  Games will be taken seriously as art by the people that they matter to in that way.  That population will grow as the medium ages if it continues to flourish.  All that it should take for it to matter is that YOU respect games on their own merits as a piece of art.  They sometimes are compromised art.  They are sometimes failures as art.  Sometimes they might not even be art and be a completely consumer based product.  I personally am certainly not going to let a bunch of regressive artistic conservatives ever hold me back from consuming the weirdest fucking games I can get my hands on to see what new things someone is trying.  Of course people that want games to stay the same as they were 10 years ago decry anything different as not art.  The Avant Garde is always where art is going and there is always people that will decry it as "Not Art".

I know I'm posting in an old thread. I'll cut out my re:feminismstillrelevant re:sexismsickandtiredofbeingtiredandnotsurprised re:insidiousgamerculture re:internetandaffect responses. And in the typical pitiful manner of being in graduate school, I learned about GG in Adrianne Shaw's Gaming at the Edge: Sexuality and Gender at the Margins of Gaming Culture text. Sigh. I'll leave re:GG out as well, because I am still quite ambivalent about the appropriation of "social justice" for commodities. But I want to respond to you, Grefter.

I have a huge philosophical issue with the identity of things, and am not concerned with qualifying x in an either-or-binary. What's happened, however, is that there are scholars, critics and writers in academia. They're attempting to expand the identity of "art" as transcending traditional fine art mediums. Art History is a classed field of resources and has been slow to respond. After The Art of Video Games exhibition, meaning museums sanctioned the material, now academes are grasping for ways to engage . The field of Visual Culture developed in response to Art History's tried and true ways in the late 90s, and now people are looking at things "visual" as historical documents with a greater lens. Ivory Tower vanguards are now incorporating.

The author is absolutely correct when they said "Photography" was not Art until the 60s, and honestly, it's more an 80s situation in the United States. It does not matter if the technology, device or style existed for thousands of years. What matters is that the art-not-Art difference has continued without much disturbance by elite consumer group who finds value in collectibility, shareability and profit. You could not profit from video games as Art until video games hit the mainstream and people began searching for some teleological history of Greats (something "avant-garde discourse" perpetuates as well). I don't agree with high/low culture differences, but capital-a Art is still a prime commodity of classed tastes, and our cultural industries are not doing enough to quit pretending some reified idea of Art is for all.

I'm disturbed by the co-optation of video games in the museum and art spheres, especially since it's pushing a good moment of gaming into a Historicaltrash.bin. You don't have to be a painter to appreciate a painting, you don't have to be a gamer to appreciate gaming, but the experience of being a "User" definitely helps intensify the understanding of craft. What's great and relief to me, however, is that I have yet to see a widespread response of the gaming industry as catering to the cultural institution of Art. That's cool.

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General Chat / Re: What music are you listening to 2015?

« on: December 09, 2015, 06:04:43 PM »

Fetty Wap - My Way

Baby won't you come mah WAAAA~AA~AAA~A~A~A~A~A~A~A~~~A~A~A~A~~~~A~A~AY

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General Chat / Re: Good morning 2015: Creative topic title goes here.

« on: December 09, 2015, 06:01:14 PM »

My small family, and Andrew's small family, means that there are very few big events. His only sibling is a lesbian, mine is a failure to launch. Most of our grandparents passed over 10 years ago. So... No deaths, no births; no weddings, divorces, moves, job changes. Friends' lives changing in a big way is hard to handle.

Yeah, friends' lives do impact yours. I hope the bumps smooth out quickly.

I most certainly don't need to say that everyone's life moves at different paces. But since I just typed that, I want to reiterate that the big 30 is also generally awesome for women: sexual prime, more career experiences, hopefully friend circles with more maturity, etc. Next year will be thirty-onederful. Here's to finding your peace in your newest decade. :]

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General Chat / Re: Idiot of the Day 2015: More stupid than stupid.

« on: December 09, 2015, 05:50:59 PM »

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/david-wright-defends-doxxing-muslims

I vote we nuke Texas from orbit.

Start with Austin first. Let me know a day in advance.

Also, watching media on SCOTUS case of Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin with the most bitter anger I've had towards education today. And Scalia's most recent comment? If the case ends negatively, aka Fisher's case winning, hopefully we wee-grad students can recuperate some respect and change from that point forward.

I am so sick and tired of Texas existing. It is way too big (zing) and sets shitty standards for education nationwide.

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General Chat / Re: Movies

« on: December 06, 2015, 07:34:08 PM »

I saw Creed instead of Hunger Games. I followed that up with Fruitvale Station. Both good movies. Creed was well paced and Fruitvale Station was just a movie I needed to watch.

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General Chat / Re: What music are you listening to 2015?

« on: December 06, 2015, 07:29:14 PM »

Laserkraft3D - Nein Mann!

….. Nein Mann, ich will noch nicht gehen… ich will noch ein bisschen tanzen.

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General Chat / Re: What Games are you playing 2015?

« on: November 23, 2015, 01:59:03 PM »

I finally picked up gaming again. I'm going through Legend of Legacy about 30 minutes or less a night. I just started the Animal Crossing home designer game, and I'll go back to Xenoblade once my semester is officially over. -Ahoy from Idun.

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General Chat / Re: Movies

« on: November 23, 2015, 01:57:28 PM »

Anyone seen the newest Hunger Games? This seems to be the only good movie out this week.