Does the term 'art' include video games?
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Are Videogames Art?
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I find the question blantantly stupid, but then again, it's a question that needs to be asked. The answer is an absolute yes, positive, uh-huh, 10-4 good buddy, whatever...
I'd say the base definition of art is a soul or group of souls creating an expression that, at least to them, seems interesting. Maybe we could even space the 'seems interesting' part...
A video game is probably the most creative venture that I can think of for a single soul, or group of souls, to be able to perform. Could you imagine one of the people these days considered a 'GREAT' artist of days of old being able to do something that wasn't just paint or scribbles on paper, but instead something that could move, and more importantly, REACT to the person experiencing that art? That would be something!
I don't think we've even seen such a thing. We were seeing something close back a decade or so ago with the C64 "demo scene" and their crazy stuff. But I've gotta say I've not seen anything that that in years. If the demo scene still exists, or something has since surpassed it, please point me that way. I always liked that kind of stuff.
"Filling DVDs you are? Size matters not. Look at Yoda. Judge him by his size, do you? Hmm? Hmm. And well you should not. For my ally is the Force, and a powerful ally it is. Life creates it, makes it grow. Its energy surrounds us and binds us. Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter. You must feel the Force around you; here, between you, me, the tree, the rock, everywhere, yes. Even between the land and the ship. Better much it is your focus to be on games which to play are intricate and interesting. Filling DVDs indeed. Fill my pants, I could too. More fun would it make me? No."
Nah, this American also says "two units", not "two skus". Maybe the WalMart 'employees' (slaves) call them SKUs, but RealPeople(tm) call them 'units' or 'types' or 'models'.
You're a fucking punk, go stick to your lame little sucky sites. Obviously you don't work on 'real' sites that are so complex that you need something to manage all the files, text-editor boy. Perl for a web site, wow, that's freakin awesome, till ya get above 50 simultaneous users then the whole thing shits itself.
Hell, I bought I 21" CRT from Overstock.com that specifically said it came with a DVI cable. Didn't come with one. I called Overstock and got a bunch of excuses, but no cable. Finally went out and bought one myself. Found that DVI only supports 60hz refresh. So here I am with a monitor that will do something outrageous like 130hz refresh with a VGA connection, stuck with a shitty blinking 60hz refresh. That was an annoying piece of education. (Yah, I now use the VGA connection on the 21", and the DVI cable hangs on the wall, unused, as the two 17" LCDs I also have on the machine do not support DVI, so fuck ya all)
Very true - every time I see a train or a truck going by with one of those Intermodal Transport Modules, I wonder if that's "the one". You know they can't search all of them, just too many. About a million a day from China and rising. Although it will be somewhat funny if "the one" ends up detonating from one of the stack of them next to every walmart out there.
That's a pretty lame link. Some info about the internals of a 1980's phone, then an unsubstantiated comment about "Some telcos now charge an extra monthly fee to users of pulse dial telephones.".
Doesn't prove anything. How about a link to an actual telephone companies site that specifically says they charge extra?
Sounds like a plausible secenario, as long as you pretend that the whole world is the United States. However, with so many people/governments/schools in all the other countries taking to Linux, that's going to create a huge realm of competition and applications that are not accounted for in the article.
So I really doubt this is anything but some MacFan having dreams. (Or posturing to try to inflate Apple stock.) Apple's still dying (As a computer company anyway) in the long term. They may end up an entertainment company, but their machines are irrelevant for the long term. Unless Apple can figure out a way to undercut the price of a server that can run either Linux or Windows. Nobody gives a shit about 'pretty' in the server room.
Um, bullshit. The same equipment that handles DTMF also handles Pulse. Also, they do not charge extra to provide Pulse, they charge extra to provide DTMF, that way they get to charge just about everyone that extra $1 per month, even though it costs them no more to do so.
FUCK YOU and your shitty 64-bit Vista crap-thing. Go wash a toilet with it or something. Microsoft, time to go... Just like Bill already left. Rats/Sinking Ship. Shitty OS.
Hell, ya named your last one Windows Sex Pee. Next one to be called Shitsta? Great move there buddy.
What?? 85 degrees? That's actually cool for August. Unless you're talking about some Midwest other than the one I live in (Nebraska), where we're usually floating near 100 this time of the year. We had a couple of 104 degree days in late July, but other than that, it's a cool day.
Also, here in Omaha, we're like 4 inches above normal rainfall. There have been heavy rains here around 7 of the last 14 days.
Not that I don't think we should get away from the coal-fired plants, as they put a lot more crap (including radioactive crap) in the air every year than a couple of nuclear bombs. No wonder smoking is down but lung cancer is up.
Which is funny, because there really are demons and spirits (and far worse!) in that box. Wool's been totally pulled over their eyes.
And the International Space Station is really the biggest voodoo project of all time, if you look, you can see human heads, baseball pitchers, and more! It's scary!
If you truely haven't done anything wrong, then what true right does anyone have suspect you of anything? None! And be offended if someone accuses you of something if you have truly gone to the trouble of not doing anything wrong.
Just because they have no conclusive information on you, but have a "hunch"? That does NOT give them a right to invade your privacy! Just because you have shifty-eyes? That does NOT give them a right to invade your privacy! Just because you look like or live near or once spoke to a person that did something wrong? That does NOT give them a right to invade your privacy!
Just because you MIGHT have done something wrong? That does NOT give them a right to invade your privacy!
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I find the question blantantly stupid, but then again, it's a question that needs to be asked. The answer is an absolute yes, positive, uh-huh, 10-4 good buddy, whatever...
I'd say the base definition of art is a soul or group of souls creating an expression that, at least to them, seems interesting. Maybe we could even space the 'seems interesting' part...
A video game is probably the most creative venture that I can think of for a single soul, or group of souls, to be able to perform. Could you imagine one of the people these days considered a 'GREAT' artist of days of old being able to do something that wasn't just paint or scribbles on paper, but instead something that could move, and more importantly, REACT to the person experiencing that art? That would be something!
I don't think we've even seen such a thing. We were seeing something close back a decade or so ago with the C64 "demo scene" and their crazy stuff. But I've gotta say I've not seen anything that that in years. If the demo scene still exists, or something has since surpassed it, please point me that way. I always liked that kind of stuff.
Interesting. No idea. Maybe it's the cheap Nvidia FX5200 card I'm using, when in DVI mode it will not let me select anything but 60hz.
Of course, because hiding leads to fear, fear leads to anger, and anger leads to the dark side!
Every single one of the Egyptians who used these nanoparticles are now dead. What's that say for the safety of these things?
If someone has broken no laws, and has nothing to hide, then they should be doubly pissed that someone invades their privacy.
What's a hardcode 'gammer'? Is that like when you take out your false teeth and "gammer them tater chips"?
"Filling DVDs you are? Size matters not. Look at Yoda. Judge him by his size, do you? Hmm? Hmm. And well you should not. For my ally is the Force, and a powerful ally it is. Life creates it, makes it grow. Its energy surrounds us and binds us. Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter. You must feel the Force around you; here, between you, me, the tree, the rock, everywhere, yes. Even between the land and the ship. Better much it is your focus to be on games which to play are intricate and interesting. Filling DVDs indeed. Fill my pants, I could too. More fun would it make me? No."
Nah, this American also says "two units", not "two skus". Maybe the WalMart 'employees' (slaves) call them SKUs, but RealPeople(tm) call them 'units' or 'types' or 'models'.
Didn't you catch the article yesterday? It was FlavorAid, not KoolAid.
You're a fucking punk, go stick to your lame little sucky sites. Obviously you don't work on 'real' sites that are so complex that you need something to manage all the files, text-editor boy. Perl for a web site, wow, that's freakin awesome, till ya get above 50 simultaneous users then the whole thing shits itself.
Hell, I bought I 21" CRT from Overstock.com that specifically said it came with a DVI cable. Didn't come with one. I called Overstock and got a bunch of excuses, but no cable. Finally went out and bought one myself. Found that DVI only supports 60hz refresh. So here I am with a monitor that will do something outrageous like 130hz refresh with a VGA connection, stuck with a shitty blinking 60hz refresh. That was an annoying piece of education. (Yah, I now use the VGA connection on the 21", and the DVI cable hangs on the wall, unused, as the two 17" LCDs I also have on the machine do not support DVI, so fuck ya all)
Very true - every time I see a train or a truck going by with one of those Intermodal Transport Modules, I wonder if that's "the one". You know they can't search all of them, just too many. About a million a day from China and rising. Although it will be somewhat funny if "the one" ends up detonating from one of the stack of them next to every walmart out there.
That's a pretty lame link. Some info about the internals of a 1980's phone, then an unsubstantiated comment about "Some telcos now charge an extra monthly fee to users of pulse dial telephones.".
Doesn't prove anything. How about a link to an actual telephone companies site that specifically says they charge extra?
Sounds like a plausible secenario, as long as you pretend that the whole world is the United States. However, with so many people/governments/schools in all the other countries taking to Linux, that's going to create a huge realm of competition and applications that are not accounted for in the article.
So I really doubt this is anything but some MacFan having dreams. (Or posturing to try to inflate Apple stock.) Apple's still dying (As a computer company anyway) in the long term. They may end up an entertainment company, but their machines are irrelevant for the long term. Unless Apple can figure out a way to undercut the price of a server that can run either Linux or Windows. Nobody gives a shit about 'pretty' in the server room.
Um, bullshit. The same equipment that handles DTMF also handles Pulse. Also, they do not charge extra to provide Pulse, they charge extra to provide DTMF, that way they get to charge just about everyone that extra $1 per month, even though it costs them no more to do so.
Yah, but virii are like cops - Never there when you need them...
Seriously, where do you go to intentionally get infected with an RC virus? Would be a good defense, but...
FUCK YOU and your shitty 64-bit Vista crap-thing. Go wash a toilet with it or something. Microsoft, time to go... Just like Bill already left. Rats/Sinking Ship. Shitty OS.
Hell, ya named your last one Windows Sex Pee. Next one to be called Shitsta? Great move there buddy.
One of the best Metallica songs ever, track 7 on Pastor of Muppets.
Some correlation between Masters of Orion and the song Orion being on Master of Puppets?
He said "Ass Burger" huh huhuhuh
Where did they come up with those two? K for Search, L for an address? Doesn't make sense, hard to remember.
Kearch? Laddress?
What?? 85 degrees? That's actually cool for August. Unless you're talking about some Midwest other than the one I live in (Nebraska), where we're usually floating near 100 this time of the year. We had a couple of 104 degree days in late July, but other than that, it's a cool day.
Also, here in Omaha, we're like 4 inches above normal rainfall. There have been heavy rains here around 7 of the last 14 days.
Not that I don't think we should get away from the coal-fired plants, as they put a lot more crap (including radioactive crap) in the air every year than a couple of nuclear bombs. No wonder smoking is down but lung cancer is up.
Boy her husband is gonna be PISSED when he gets back.
You let a bunch of geeks do WHAT??
Which is funny, because there really are demons and spirits (and far worse!) in that box. Wool's been totally pulled over their eyes.
And the International Space Station is really the biggest voodoo project of all time, if you look, you can see human heads, baseball pitchers, and more! It's scary!
Even more to the point:
If you truely haven't done anything wrong, then what true right does anyone have suspect you of anything? None! And be offended if someone accuses you of something if you have truly gone to the trouble of not doing anything wrong.
Just because they have no conclusive information on you, but have a "hunch"? That does NOT give them a right to invade your privacy!
Just because you have shifty-eyes? That does NOT give them a right to invade your privacy!
Just because you look like or live near or once spoke to a person that did something wrong? That does NOT give them a right to invade your privacy!
Just because you MIGHT have done something wrong? That does NOT give them a right to invade your privacy!
You've never done ANY of them? Come on, tell me another one. I call bullshit on you.