Khuutra on 20 April 2010
| The Ghost of RubangB said: When the hell did he "slip out of relevancy" though? That was the most over-the-top insult right there. Is there a new wave of famous critics or something, or is that just the author's way of saying "I don't like him anymore?" Ebert made a very solid argument, and if you have a problem with it, you SHOULD argue back. But now gamers who supposedly really care about art are stalking a 68 year old man on Twitter and freaking out at his every response. This is really embarrassing for gamers and it makes Ebert look like he was right. He's a real art critic and we're an internet mob of whining babies who can't take any criticism from the only real critic we've ever had to deal with. If I was Ebert, at this point I'd be Tweeting "games are the sux0rz biyaaaaaatch pwned." |
I think that part of this isn't Ebert's fault, though I wouldn't go so far as to suggest that he doesn't know how the mahcine works - he had to have nown that by making that blog entry he was going to be stirring the pot again. And, given time, the furor would have died down just like it did before. He knew he was going to be getting comments from idiots, because idiots are primariy the people he gets comments from, be they idiots who like movies or idiots who like video games.
Gamers who attack him deserve whatever he says. But after saying something like that, it's difficult to sympathize with him. Shit, that one insulted me.
