So many ppo spend massive chunks of their lives gaming & I wonder how they live with themselves. I suppose there isn't much time to think about it, but I also imagine that they have some dark moments of clarity, like a heroin junkie hitting a drought.
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I think that I genuinely prefer the anime/manga dorks because their medium has a modicum of complexity, while video games are less like art than they are like psychological torture/gambling/drugs/etc.
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& before any whinging dullards enter here to assuage their anxiety with a lame justification: no video games are good. There is not a single video game that is as good as even a shitty pulp romance novel.
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Replying to @Logo_Daedalus
Its often an addiction, and its foolish to try and portray an addiction in a positive light so I won't. Realized for myself that I needed to have an absolute zero tolerance policy to vidya. The vast majority of things written are trash and the best games are easily better as art
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Replying to @EnjoytheDecline @Logo_Daedalus
It just occurred to me I've stepped into your McLuhan nonsense again unwittingly, fuck how do I keep letting this happen
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Replying to @EnjoytheDecline @Logo_Daedalus
Of course if you thought content was irrelevant you'd think of vidya and books in this way. Thank god this is not how reality works
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Replying to @EnjoytheDecline
You keep assuaging yourself that the Medium is not the Message; why?
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Because the core of truth (that the medium has important consequences) is being distorted by a ridiculously strong claim that has no actual support (that content is irrelevant). Read Understanding Media closely enough and you'll see McLuhan failing to believe his own thesis
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I am being a bit harsh calling him nonsense, because he comes up with insights I would never in a thousand years manage. These insights are counterbalanced by an equal number of ridiculous statements I'm careful enough not to make
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