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Heh, good point - but that's not really what I meant. Art is about somehow representing some kind of abstraction in some way. Viewing art is the proces of creating meaning out of this abstraction. So it's something else than just explaining yourself poorly. But by the above definition, I...

One of the currently running Starcraft I tournaments in Korea has Korean Air as it's main sponsor. Probably just a commercial cashing in on that fact.

Boudelaire and Kant were pretty much agreeing that Art was the process of producing a glimpse of nothingness and then making the observer of the Art contemplate it's meaning and through that educate him/herself (I don't know if educate is the precise word to use, but I believe it's adequate at...

By some obscure coincidence the Western world has decided that the age of 18 is somehow magical, and that when people turn 18 they're suddenly capable of making rational and sensible decisions all by themselves. All governments have responsibility for their respective populations, and because no...

Only Stardock didn't develop Demigod - they only published it. Chris Taylor's Gas Powered Games developed it. Too bad that Stardock took alot of heat for the buggy launch of Demigod, issues they didn't really have any thing to do with.

Well, the point is not about Yahtzee is a "proper" reviewer or not. The discussion doesn't really care about that. I still think, that the question he raises (whether he does so on purpose or not) about "generic gaming" is valid, no matter what you may think of his reviews. I might not have...

Okay, okay. Aside from the cheesy meta-topic-title, this is actually what I thought I'd do. You see, "Yahtzee" Croshaw of Zero Punctuation made a very good point when he recently reviewed the latest installation of the Wolfenstein IP. He decided to make the review in iambic pentameter, simply...

Pretty much all the Lonely Islands texts are idiotic. But then again - it's a spoof. They do it on purpose.

Well, being a betatester on EWoM I can testify that there is not very much fun to be had. What I do get from it, is an insight into the developing of the game and a chance to shape the game in minor ways. That, and I decided to buy the game a long time ago anyways...

I guess the thing the Pirate Bay representative's talking about is the fact that p2p-sharing per se isn't illegal. I believe that downloading stuff off of pirate sites (in the EU at least) isn't illegal. It is however insanely illegal to distribute the stuff. Personally I couldn't care less...

OP: If by "right wing" you mean "has lots of guns in it" (and that's pretty much what I'm reading into your post, then SURE. But isn't that more a product of game developers, firstly, being guys for the most part, and secondly, wanting to make cool games? It's an advanced game of "cowboys...

The best example of uninformed sensationalism was when i last week picked up a copy of a free newspaper (which obviously lives off of selling ad-space in the paper). The front page read: "Vestas fires 1300 employees in Denmark" (Vestas is the worlds largest producer of windmills, based in...

I happen to like youtube.

As a gamer and a homosexual, I'd rather have a (hawt) straight protagonist in a game, whether it's action/RPG/whatever, than I'd have a stereotypical flaming gay guy running around. Being a normal guy, who just so happens to like guys, I find the usual portraying of (male) homosexuals rather...

I had this discussion with a friend yesterday, and I wanted to call it an RTT - as in Real Time Tactical. My argument was the difference between tactics and strategy. But a great point was made: Even though "classic" RTS revolves alot around basebuilding, that's not the only thing that makes...