{"id":6126,"date":"2010-04-21T12:39:59","date_gmt":"2010-04-21T19:39:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/blog\/?p=6126"},"modified":"2010-04-21T12:39:59","modified_gmt":"2010-04-21T19:39:59","slug":"games-are-not-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/?p=6126","title":{"rendered":"Games Are Not Art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BRAIN: Lots of cranks in press<br \/>\nBRAIN:  Roger Ebert had a <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.suntimes.com\/ebert\/2010\/04\/video_games_can_never_be_art.html\">long ranty screed<\/a> on why video games can never be &#8220;art&#8221;<br \/>\nBRAIN:  which is a discussion so pedantic I can&#8217;t even process it<br \/>\nBRAIN:  then there was some long article on <a href=\"http:\/\/trueslant.com\/markdery\/2010\/04\/20\/aladdin-sane-called-he-wants-his-lightning-bolt-back-on-lady-gaga\/\">whether Lady Gaga is stupid or not<\/a><br \/>\nBRAIN:  like she as an artist<br \/>\nSAMIR:  oh dear<br \/>\nSAMIR:  I read Ebert&#8217;s article<br \/>\nSAMIR:  not that great<br \/>\nSAMIR:  he&#8217;s just stuck in his POV<br \/>\nBRAIN:   what a dick<br \/>\nSAMIR:  well I like his writing on movies<br \/>\nSAMIR:  but yes<br \/>\nBRAIN:   it&#8217;s like &#8220;photography will never be art!!&#8221;<br \/>\nSAMIR:  My guess is he once made a rip on some dumb game and got stuck in it<br \/>\nSAMIR:  it&#8217;s sorta pointless<br \/>\nBRAIN:   both those are<br \/>\nSAMIR:  lady gaga?<br \/>\nBRAIN:   the outcomes of either debate are entirely moot<br \/>\nSAMIR:  yeah. debating WHAT IS ART is amongst the dumbest convos you can have<br \/>\nBRAIN:   oop, wait, this isn&#8217;t art, I guess we have to stop looking at it now<\/p>\n<p>So we&#8217;re saying that an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.braid-game.com\/\">enormous hand-painted watercolor<\/a>, that you can run around in, that represents a world where the viewer can make time go backwards, and even be in two places at once, is not thought-provoking in any way and has no aesthetic value.<\/p>\n<p>Good call there Ebert.  Why not just stick to reviewing things you&#8217;ve actually viewed?  I mean how is this legitimate?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BRAIN: Lots of cranks in press BRAIN: Roger Ebert had a long ranty screed on why video games can never be &#8220;art&#8221; BRAIN: which is a discussion so pedantic I can&#8217;t even process it BRAIN: then there was some long article on whether Lady Gaga is stupid or not BRAIN: like she as an artist [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stardate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}