How do we/should we talk about video games?

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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Debate & Discussion > How do we/should we talk about video games?

Nosfereefer: Jun 15, 2011; IF YOU FIND THIS POSTER OUTSIDE BYOB, PLEASE RETURN THEM. WE ARE VERY WORRIED AND WE MISS THEM

twodot posted:

If we should ignore the story telling in a game, why not ignore the story telling in a book, and declare them glorified rocks?

From a death-of-the-author perspective we kind of might as well?

# ¿ May 17, 2016 17:12

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Nosfereefer: Jun 15, 2011; IF YOU FIND THIS POSTER OUTSIDE BYOB, PLEASE RETURN THEM. WE ARE VERY WORRIED AND WE MISS THEM

[fair enough]

Nosfereefer fucked around with this message at 14:48 on May 25, 2016

# ¿ May 24, 2016 21:48

Nosfereefer: Jun 15, 2011; IF YOU FIND THIS POSTER OUTSIDE BYOB, PLEASE RETURN THEM. WE ARE VERY WORRIED AND WE MISS THEM

A medium in itself is not art, otherwise random textbooks would be art in the same way the Odysseus is. Can video games be art? Oh course, in the same way art can be created through any medium, even, and often famously through rocks. They can also be a source of debilitating addiction, such as WoW turns out for some people.

# ¿ May 31, 2016 19:48

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