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This guy is obviously an attention whore



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Wagram said:
If video games aren't considered art, then I suppose movies can't be either.

While the summer block busters designed to mindlessly entertain can't be, every movie doesn't work like that. 



Wagram said:
If video games aren't considered art, then I suppose movies can't be either.


Correct Roger Ebert shouldn't be attacking an entire medium one that he doesn't even seem to be familiar with.       





Back in the days what he did for fun was push a hoop with a stick, with a STICK.



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deskpro2k3 said:
Back in the days what he did for fun was push a hoop with a stick, with a STICK.

Imagine what our grandsons would say about us.



Ok Christians that obviously means you don't "get" video games either so you'd best stop taking part in something you don't get because you obviously can't appreciate them.

Christians read the Bible, the Bible is the Word of God, God is the perfect being whose intellect far surpasses the collective intellectual capacity of the entire human race (and all other sentient beings in the universe), hence it is impossible to be more well read than reading the Bible, well read people are incapbable of "getting" video games, thus by definition Christians can't "get" video games.

All other religions of course are the devil's spawn. Being the devil's spawn means the complete opposite of God, meaning all other religious people are the total opposite of what it is to be well read, meaning all other religious people are so poorly read that they can "get" video games. Yay for me!!

Atheists and agnostics, well obviously it depends on each individual so it's impossible to apply a stereotype in your case. So yay for some of you, and too bad for others.

On a lighter note: this simply serves to demonstrate the elitist snobbery that exists among certain people who dwell within the hallowed halls of the traditional arts.



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My reaction (upon reading this):



 

 

Translation: my head is so far up my own ass I have noi dea what I am talking about.



alfredofroylan said:
Khuutra said:
 

I expect this out of gaming journalism.

I do not so much expect it from a man who's been the premier cinema critic in this country for like three decades

A man who doesn't like videogames. It's difficult to talk about something that you don't like, I guess people is really overacting this a lot, I've seen 4 different editorials from gaming sites about this, and they tried really hard to look intelectual and serious........ but then I remember that some days ago they're sparking flamw warz over the Internetz so that actaully took some of the credits from those articles.

So... it is okay because it is difficult? I don't like rap. I don't have much to say about the topic. If someone asked me, even if someone pressed me for my opinion all I could say is I don't like it. I suppose I could even say why I don't like it or say I don't understand how it is concidered music (this part is not true, I get the musical qualities and talents in the genre.)

But now let's say I am famous and everone reads my comments about rap. Fans of the genre want their voices heard as well. They want me and others to know that rappers are musicians.

Some of them make personal attacks at me. That is inexcusable.

I attack back and call the whole lot of them ignorant and stupid... but it is okay because I couldn't tell you the number one rap single this year?



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