Recent content by Contextualizer

What is with all the beta-male impotent rage and hate fantasies here? This guy did not flood the Gulf coast with crude oil and irrevocably destroy the environment. He did not lead a nation into a horrifying war that was a huge waste of money and life and that ultimately led to the ultimate...

Since there was a bump from my original thread, I figured there would be demand to see my Steam game grid all updated and nice looking. Here's part 1 with 152 games. [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/profiles/view_message/5340948] Interestingly enough, the games I've been playing...

Like what? With Xpadder or Joy2Key, I can't think of any games you can't use.

...You do know that just about all PC games support dual thumbsticks?

...When this is something that's naturally going to happen in a culture where everyone likes music that is extremely melodically, harmonically, and rhythmically constrained. It doesn't matter if you listen to really angry thrash metal, really wanky progressive rock, or really "indie" rock music...

What exactly was wrong with BFBC2? For my friends and I, it's honestly the best FPS out there. And we've been playing them for longer than most people here have been alive.

You're making the assumption that everyone is as rigidly nationalist and/or culturally homogeneous as you are. My family comes from one country, I was born in another, and yet, I grew up and live in another country altogether. Which one should I be not okay with "opposing"?

How is this a question of belief? "Ape" is a scientific term that is clearly defined. As per those definitions, humans are clearly apes. This thread is ridiculous.

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hat about...both?

On what platform? The PC's been awesome.

Indeed. I'm laughing so hard right now.

You spent an awful lot of time trying to say art is subjective. And it's true, art is indeed subjective. But art is also culturally defined. Each culture has subjectively different ideas of what art is, but they still have those ideas. And people within each culture have subjectively...

I'm guessing by foreign you mean non-American music? Maurice Ravel's French. Artists aren't supposed to explain art to us. They aren't supposed to do anything other than create art. Some may explain how they feel about art, but that's a very different thing compared to anthropologists...

John Coltrane and Maurice Ravel came out long before 12 years ago. And Maurice Ravel isn't even America! What draws you to this conclusion? Creators of art are usually the last people on Earth you want to try and explain overarching principles and dynamics of art. But in any case...