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Lol thats awfully nice of you two. Nothing worse than a night out and then a chick has to vomit all over the place.

^Lol I know, what would be the point of going to a different country and look at porn?

Its ok, i'm a bit of an introvert anyway. Not something I feel like I want to change tbh lol.

Yeah I guess i'm pretty boring then lol. Not the most talkative sort in public or group setting.

"Just friends" as in they both want to sleep with you, just maybe not together lol. I can say those types of things never happen to me, not that i'm envious or anything. I wouldn't know what to do if it did and find it hard to comprehend.

Yeah, its just human nature that some people get off on abusing others. They derive a sense of thrill from it. Whether its psychological or physical, even parents are guilty of it at times. I know i've been guilty of abusing the family dog a little too much in my younger, adolescent days. I cried a lot last year (the first time since I was like 14, 26 now) when I found him passed from old age one night, I felt ashamed and couldn't get over why I was mean to him. I said "i'm sorry" to him repeatedly as I was sobbing, holding his body on the floor. He never really liked me because of it, not like my sister and mother. But its funny how in his old age he became incontinent and the only person in the family who could properly diaper him was me. Irony I guess. Anyway, back on point, yeah some people just enjoy being mean. I think all people have it in them to some degree, while others exercise it consciously and there are those who see it as an unjust and unethical display of one own character. I'm one of the latter. Maybe thats why I tend to prefer being alone, because we recognize that people can be cruel. I'd rather just not deal with that crap to begin with you know what i'm saying? I'm too old for that shit. Its what separates, or should at any rate, mature adults from degenerate, ignorant, daft assholes. Those who truly are obsessed with it are your murderers, rapists, domestic abusers and the like. How many steps away are some people from crossing the line? Not to call you out or anything Ems but I recall a post you made about watching your ex and her gay friend walk by from your balcony and you said "fuck it" to your higher judgment and yelled at them, etc. But I can't say I knew her or what happened between you two so, I don't past judgment. Its kind of scary to see one's self sometimes when the situation creates the atmosphere exact enough where the worst in us can surface. I just don't want to be that person, I don't do it to others and 99% of the time they don't do it to me.

^Damn son, was it a nice threesome?

Internet censorship, no moar devious pr0n to g00gle.

A little late but i'm not sure if any of you watch SGU, I finished the first season two weeks ago and I must say... I can't grasp all the people's complaints about the series, its a lot better imo than the hoaky, comedic previous series' (which were good too). Yes it's different, for a reason. Trying to compete with prime-time network shows, SyFy has got their work cut-out for them. "Oh its so drama, its not the same" lol since when has drama in a television series been a bad thing? Even for sitcoms there are episodes when they tone up the drama-meter. I for one can't wait for season 2.

^Oh dude, you're in for a treat. Deadwood rocked, Shakespeare hisself couldn't come up with such complex dialogue as that show lol. Ian McShane is awesome, and so is Timothy Olyphant. That series confirmed his position as a great actor in my book. Its funny how he's in another show now where he plays a cowboy (more or less).

I dunno if it applies to an ethnic minority from America, as opposed to a caucasian-American. If I went to China i'd probably just get confused for one of them and treated just as well.

No, but I had some corn tortilla fish tacos earlier.

lol @ ems *wink*

A better thread would be "Who is the most attractive male member of 1Emu if they dressed up as a female?"

Got a picture?

Why do you like her

It's not about lacking innovation. It's about where the money is and if their marketing is leaning towards motion-sensory gaming then thats what they're going to do. It's how companies compete and drive the market for us consumers. And sure, whoever thought of it first, or in truth whoever pulled it off BETTER first, more power to them but thats only as relevant to what'll replace it. Nintendo had better hope to do more than just rely on the 3DS because the nunchuk wielding days seem to be over for a console that doesn't even provide HD.

Castlevania: Lords of Shadow, Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood, MvC3, Dead Space 2, Dead Rising 2 (PC/PS3 baby hell yeah!) and Vanquish surprisingly enough. It has the intensity of a FPS but the adventure-like feel of 3rd-person platform, i'm looking forward to it.

Well, I suppose in Ebert's mind, he can say that he isn't a painter or sculptor or artist in those forms in any professional capacity, and neither are most people, but we can all mostly agree that the works of the master's and other pieces in museums and galleries are works of "high art" as he calls it. And so he doesn't need to play games to criticize them. But the difference between traditional Art media and games is that they are displayed in public view for all to see, and games have to be "viewed" or experienced in a mostly private setting. But that's where he makes his case in that with games, you can lose, you have to win, you start over etc. and that is not functionally art, where the Authorial control dictates how the audience perceives and interprets their work. Clearly he hasn't played many of the newer games out.

I think that movie's kinda dumb.

Well, it's not that i'm insecure over Ebert's stance on Games not being Art, but more surprised that someone like him wouldn't consider it Art. So its disappointment for me. I also find it interesting how nobody has cited the technological limitations involved in Games being perceived as "good Art." Where men hundreds of years ago could use simple tools to create life-like imagery or at least visually engaging imagery while we are hampered by the progress of the transistor.

Before I write what I will, i'll post the link to Ebert's blog post on the subject: "Video games can never be art.". Ebert's a smart guy, well-educated – but he, like all other people is confined by his own experiences (or lack-thereof in this particular case) and arbitrary individuality. Though we all are, arent we? But how can something like "Art" exist when we as individuals are at our cores, arbitrary? I guess it's in the fact that though we are individualistic in our beliefs, we're not self-contained as a species for survival in its myriad forms. We depend on society and in community and its in those key terms that I draw some points in my post. We consider Art "Art", as in we define things collectively as Art through collective appreciation of the thing we label it as. I know some people who consider music as an art but don't consider rap music as art merely because they dislike the form of music. How does that work? Well it works and doesn't work because, like Art, its viewed either way by a collective of shared perspectives and like-minded individuals who either appreciate it as one thing or don't as another. This is where Ebert is pretty transparent to me and why I label him as inexperienced, even though he's a well-educated person. While he's refined in the world of cinema, what games has he played through besides chess, which isn't even a video game? I guess the better question is, does he even play video-games? No, i'm sure. Not in the way we define gamers, anyway. But he does seem himself qualified enough to label games as not Art because, I suppose, he's educated and versed enough in the other forms of media that exist; the ones he does consider Art. But again, its herein where he is, in my point-of-view, confined by his own experiences. Ebert grew up in a generation long ago where Personal Computers didn't exist, Video-Games didn't exist, Internet etc. He's from a bygone era. and his appreciation for the modern context of that which is considered "Media" and "Art" (excluding films, and yes I do consider that Art) is hampered by his own existence and inability to be anything other than himself. Which is no crime obviously, but like anybody who speaks out of place, he is no stranger. Why does he speak on the subject when he has no experience in Video-Games? Because he knows Art in its other forms. And that is the point, great Art is timeless. And in saying so, his crippling handicap of being old is kind of an advantage to him. So he does dare to say that "video games can never be art." Its a paradox, to me anyway, that his words are both his advantage and disadvantage at play. He makes a good point in his blog about how he considers a work of Art, the work of an individual. And yet a cathedral is the sum-total of many men at work, many artisans in fact. Sculptors, stone-masons, carpenters and the like who in their own right all are in a professional trade of artistic capacity. Video-Games are much the same, they are the products of the sum-total of many artists (and non) at work. 2D and 3D pixels represented through digitized code and electronics is the work of Art being developed on a "canvas" besides anything tangible. Like music or film, it cannot be contained by ourselves physically but appreciated none-the-less through our senses and isn't it our senses the basis in which all Art is derived as a definable aesthetic in all its forms? Are Video-Games art? I am an artist in the field of graphic design and a gamer, so I can say I know both experiences to an intimate degree. And I consider Art as life itself. It drives everything we do. Like six-degrees of separation, you can find a purpose in anything and everything that will lead back to what is considered Art. Perhaps not in exactly six degrees or less, but back to the point of origin none-the-less which Art inhabits. What do you guys think? Can Video-Games be Art?

That's not gonna happen.

I'm more of a hard liquor man myself. I like: I can drink two pitchers and will start feeling tipsy.

Dormammu is the boss. Or an important overall character, which means Dr. Strange may be a playable character as well.