Recent content by fromthepoisonwell

I think that most people subconsciously see people with stock avatars/no avatar as outsiders/newbies. I don't really have a problem with it so long as they still treat the people well, because the people probably are outsiders/newbies. I too, get kind of annoyed by mlp avatars. I know I...

You said: And I responded to it in as rational a way as possible, since it seems nonsensical to me in the first place. Clearly I'm not dictating it anymore than I can and should be. What else could you mean by this that I haven't already addressed?

I have played Dear Esther and watched at least partial play throughs of two of their horror games. So no, I have seen enough of it to judge their work. You're not required to play through a company's whole catalogue to judge them. Also, lol wut? I absolutely have the right as a consumer to...

Can you back this up with sources? That's an interesting claim, and would honestly change my outlook if you could solidly confirm it.

Not surprised at all to see people not enjoying this game as much as the original. The Chinese Room should stick to what they know best, pretentious interactive fiction, instead of barging in on well beloved horror games. I'll likely still end up playing this eventually, when it goes on...

I don't see how mashing up a few terrible memes about how shitty reddit (and the associated crowd) is should be funny. Then again, maybe I frequented le reddit too long back in the day and have just been exposed to reddit's self hate too much to find it entertaining anymore.

What? Can you further explain the point of open rimmed glasses or is this meta-irony? Because wearing open rimmed glasses to be silly and laugh at people who 'don't get it' isn't something I'd call 'irony.'

I think that's an interesting way to think of it. Focusing more on the creation process and artist than the product and viewer. Reminds me of an art teacher I had (way back in Elementary, most of the things he said went way over our 3rd grade heads) that seemed to have a similar view. He...

I doubt the world is ever really going to agree on what the definition of art actually is, but if we're going by R.E.'s words: Then I can think of quite a few games that I'd consider art.