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Something being difficult to define doesn't make them not exist. I've done a bunch of translation and I can tell you dictionaries are mostly useful for spellings... Definitions tend to break down quickly. We can make efforts to define terms in prose but they'll never really fully reflect how those terms exist in our minds or the cultural consciousness. Defining art is a lot like defining love. Words can't really explain them, but the terms exist because we have a need for them.

Some terrifying implications to this one.

Probably not, but there's a lot of people here who make the stuff that gets warezed, so there's less understanding for piracy than in some corners in the internet. That said, personally I pirate TV series all the time and will continue to do so until someone offers me a convenient and high quality alternative.

If Ebert pointing out particular game titles as not being art proves games cannot be art, wouldn't this prove that cinema cannot be art?

I haven't seen the second episode yet but that DJ was perhaps the most annoying and pointless character I've seen in years.

All art has victory conditions. Just because you got to see the end credits doesn't mean you were able to digest the experience, whether anything the artist was trying to communicate actually stuck. I could never win Inland Empire.

Goddammit, I just managed to let his last dumbass diatribe slide. I like his movie reviews but I can't imagine why he feels the need to write these. He knows so little of the subject he's not even coherent.

Sure it's a safe bet. It's a well-known IP and an FPS. Throw a bunch of money at it and you're set. They're not relying on old fans, the IP sells for the sake of being recognized by people who might not have even played the originals.

Alien abduction.

Jebus, how on earth can you run it on that system? Mine is close and it isn't even nearly playable.

English! I'm just too damn bone idle to get this stuff done right.

My Candidate's Thesis is going to be craaaaap.

Maybe you found a way to get hammered and had such success you forgot all about it

That looks like something out of an H.P. Lovecraft story

I don't have it installed :/ Too frustrating. I've been playing single player games. I'll try it again if I find the money for a new computer ever.

What it seems is that when they sold the original game's pre-release versions for cheaper (it got more expensive every version closer to release), they desided to shaft those early adopters and charge again for a slightly modified game. I got the original way back, before actual release. I lost interest quickly, though, so I haven't even played the release version.

You.

Heh, funny how 2K insists on giving the studios these stupid bland names only to cause confusion in the end.

My experience with Halo 2: We tried to play splitscreen co-op with a friend, the only mode of gameplay that never ever fails to entertain in any game, but after about twenty minutes we were stuck in some boring spaceship and couldn't figure out what to do. Nothing was happening, it was dark, featureless and boring, so we stopped.

The other day I almost ate a tiny tiny ant that had crawled into my bag of candy, but I noticed it so I removed it from my mouth. It tasted salty.

How? Taking the boat takes goddamn ages.

Thanks, Iceland. Way to fuck things up for everyone.

So why do you think it's coming up? I haven't heard anything about it and IO are doing Kane & Lynch 2 now.

Man, you people and your fucked up lives.

They're pretty different. Different engine, different gameplay. One has an iMUSE like music system, the other orchestral music. In Hitman 1, if you are wearing a disguise and your gun is holstered, you can muck about and run into people as much as you want. It doesn't care you well you do missions -- perhaps you just killed everyone on the map. Good enough. It did have a lovely, unique atmosphere, but it just wasn't ready yet.