Gaming as an art form.

[Bodhesatva]

smellygoat said:

Bodhesatva said:

Every word's meaning is constantly under revision. That isn't a trait unique to this particular word.

It isn't that such a discussion isn't valuable (although I'm not sure it is), but rather that every discussion of this type instantly devolves into semantics and never gets beyond it. I want to get beyond it, so rather than get caught in the mire, I hoped we could simply agree that it's a problem for another thread and time.

If we're simply going to discuss the meaning of the word "art," I hope a mod can change the thread title -_-

Was this in reply to my post? I'm not sure.

I simply stated the the idea behind art is to challenge the audience to think in new ways, and that includes thinking of art in new ways.

But of course that was the first 2 lines of my post. The rest was only discussing the meaning of the word "art".

 Yes, it was a reply to you -- however, your post was quite long and I was only replying to the first two sentences, and the rest was irrelevant. 

Again, every single word in the English language is constantly evolving and changing. Art isn't peculiar in that regard. Can we please drop this now? I don't agree with your definition, and it shouldn't be important because the topic is a sinkhole. Please, please move on from this discsussion, so that we can discuss other facets of this topic. 

This topic is already a marathon -- I'm tired of getting stopped within the first half mile.