Thinking about that online music critic theneedledrop - the guy who somehow failed to notice the political commentary in Richard Dawson's 2020, but who yet managed to still think it was great - and why he rubbed me up the wrong way. (1/)
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But it's a love that demands the best of people - his skewering is an expression of disappointment in devs' compromises or spiritual laziness. When something's good, though... he said that Spiritfarer brought him to tears, which is hardly a cynic's attitude. (10/)
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@carolynmichelle (soz for retagging), who treats games as the first volley in a conversation that she takes up, exploring herself (and by extension *us*) in new ways, these new ways being what was given to her by the artwork, no matter how 'successful' it was. (11/)Show this thread -
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@yacobg42, who treats games as contributions to a large-scale conversation within all the arts and indeed society at large, in which history is forever playing variations on itself and reshaping itself, sprouting new sources of delight. (12/)Show this thread -
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@MrGervaisWrites, who seems tortured by the spiritual demands laid upon him by even terrible games that he has to exorcise himself of them in these long, exquisitely crafted essays that spiral onto deep and subtle observations. (13/)Show this thread -
idk. As a sometime critic myself, I think a lot about what we're supposed to be doing when we take someone's labour of love and talk about it publicly, without consent, with cruel honesty. It can seem absurd and hostile. The above critics keep me honest, I hope. (14/14)
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