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Eddie Teach

#25035
March 30, 2013, 06:51:16 PM
Quote from: Ideologue on March 30, 2013, 06:28:53 PM
Is architecture art, Raz?  They can be just, you know, buildings.

Painting and sculpture can be just decorations.
To sleep, perchance to dream. But in that sleep of death, what dreams may come?

Razgovory

#25036
March 30, 2013, 07:05:44 PM
Quote from: Ideologue on March 30, 2013, 06:28:53 PM
Quote from: Razgovory on March 30, 2013, 05:30:42 PM
Quote from: Neil on March 30, 2013, 07:54:46 AM
Quote from: Razgovory on March 29, 2013, 05:33:27 AM
Quote from: Neil on March 28, 2013, 09:30:39 PM
Ebert suffers from several flaws.  For one thing, he takes himself way too seriously.  He also is old, and is thus culturally irrelevant.  Games aren't art my ass.
They aren't art.
See, I don't expect any better from you.  You don't exactly have a reputation as a deep thinker, you know?

They still aren't art.  There is no need to justify a hobby like computer games by claiming they are art.  They can be just, you know, games.

Is architecture art, Raz?  They can be just, you know, buildings.

It can be, yes.  Though it is not necessarily.  Is Curling art?  Is Football?  Is Monopoly?  Is Poker?  No.  They are games.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

Razgovory

#25037
March 30, 2013, 07:17:53 PM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on March 30, 2013, 06:51:16 PM
Quote from: Ideologue on March 30, 2013, 06:28:53 PM
Is architecture art, Raz?  They can be just, you know, buildings.

Painting and sculpture can be just decorations.

Really, I'd say the decorations are art.  A sword is a weapon.  However, it can be richly decorated and become an artistic object.  This does not makes swords art.  Likewise computer games can have art in them, but they themselves are not art.  A game is mechanics, the part you play with.  Graphics and story and music are artistic.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

11B4V

#25038
March 30, 2013, 07:37:57 PM
Quote from: Razgovory on March 30, 2013, 07:17:53 PM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on March 30, 2013, 06:51:16 PM
Quote from: Ideologue on March 30, 2013, 06:28:53 PM
Is architecture art, Raz?  They can be just, you know, buildings.

Painting and sculpture can be just decorations.

Really, I'd say the decorations are art.  A sword is a weapon.  However, it can be richly decorated and become an artistic object.  This does not makes swords art.  Likewise computer games can have art in them, but they themselves are not art.  A game is mechanics, the part you play with.  Graphics and story and music are artistic.

It can be a weapon and a work of art.

"there's a long tradition of insulting people we disagree with here, and I'll be damned if I listen to your entreaties otherwise."-OVB

"Obviously not a Berkut-commanded armored column.  They're not all brewing."- CdM

"We've reached one of our phase lines after the firefight and it smells bad—meaning it's a little bit suspicious... Could be an amb—".

Razgovory

#25039
March 30, 2013, 07:41:35 PM
Yes, but this does not make weapons art.  It's essentially art on a weapon.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

11B4V

#25040
March 30, 2013, 07:43:25 PM
Quote from: Razgovory on March 30, 2013, 07:41:35 PM
Yes, but this does not make weapons art.  It's essentially art on a weapon.

I disagree, the weapon (sword), itself can also be a work of art

Not related but this is a good watch if you have time.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMH6XvQUmKY
"there's a long tradition of insulting people we disagree with here, and I'll be damned if I listen to your entreaties otherwise."-OVB

"Obviously not a Berkut-commanded armored column.  They're not all brewing."- CdM

"We've reached one of our phase lines after the firefight and it smells bad—meaning it's a little bit suspicious... Could be an amb—".

Razgovory

#25041
March 30, 2013, 08:59:51 PM
I pressed a button and now everything is too small on this website :(  I'm trying to figure out what I did.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

Sheilbh

#25042
March 30, 2013, 09:05:56 PM
Did it say 'press me'? If so this could end up being the least of your worries.
Let's bomb Russia!

Razgovory

#25043
March 30, 2013, 09:57:13 PM
No, just something made everything slightly smaller.  Don't know what I did.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

jimmy olsen

#25044
March 31, 2013, 12:35:59 AM
Try pressing ctrl and + at the same time.
It is far better for the truth to tear my flesh to pieces, then for my soul to wander through darkness in eternal damnation.

Jet: So what kind of woman is she? What's Julia like?
Faye: Ordinary. The kind of beautiful, dangerous ordinary that you just can't leave alone.
Jet: I see.
Faye: Like an angel from the underworld. Or a devil from Paradise.
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Syt

#25045
March 31, 2013, 02:09:18 AM
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

Proud owner of 42 Zoupa Points.

Razgovory

#25046
March 31, 2013, 04:44:48 AM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on March 31, 2013, 12:35:59 AM
Try pressing ctrl and + at the same time.

Thanks Tim.  That worked.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

Liep

#25047
March 31, 2013, 05:19:50 AM
Ctrl + 0 will reset the zoom to 100%.
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Ed Anger

#25048
March 31, 2013, 10:46:46 AM
I could have used Seedy and his bunny suit. Almost had an egg riot yesterday.
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Phillip V

#25049
March 31, 2013, 01:59:55 PM
When someone tells me that they are "Research Assistant" at a university, what does that mean? Is it part of a graduate study program, full-time position, volunteer?
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