FrostDragon said:
As for those who think me a troll...
Oh, I don't think you're a troll. A troll posts incendiary things intended to get a rise out of people and start fights.
No, I think you're just joking around with us.
I once read about this scientist, a physicist if memory serves, who wrote a long article and submitted it to a journal of sociology. The article was gibberish, complete nonsense carefully constructed to look like it was saying something when in fact it was just a lot of long words and run-on sentences. The journal published the article, then the guy who wrote it turned around and had a good laugh at their expense.
I think you're doing something like that guy.
I mean, come on.
Innovators such as David Cage spearhead gaming's march toward enlightenment, with his magnum opus Beyond: Two Souls showing us the kind of storytelling games are capable of. B:TS is a piece of transcendental fiction - slipping the bonds of it's medium and becoming something greater than both games and movies, a piece of true art.
B:TS didn't transcend jack shit, it was a hilarious mess.
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You just hate David Cage and can't accept that someone else can enjoy and find meaning in his work!"
Okay, fine, ya got me there. But even this bit is ridiculous:
Video games are the reason why we have solidarity; fighting transphobia, homophobia, sexism, transsexism, racism, and classism is a rally behind the media of video games and developers like BioWare.
I like Bioware, and even I find this silly.
And that's before we get to gems like this:
Think about the Civil Rights Movement. What if Martin Luther King Jr. didn't have the courage to fight for what he thought was right? Now think of Phil Fish. Do you think he could have told his story? Fought for what he thought was right?
Video games are a main reason people in today's society are strong.
I have no problem with video games being art. I enjoy some art-y games. I love
Journey.
The Walking Dead made me cry despite basically being a poorly animated episodic movie. I loved
Bioshock Infinite and
The Last of Us.
And reading your post makes me feel like a Christian who has just stumbled across the Landover Baptist Church [http://www.landoverbaptist.net/] website.
Which is why I think you're taking the piss.