HEY GINGER YOU SHOULD READ CATCHER IN THE RYE

IT HAS THE BEST VILLAIN EVER

A GENERAL SENSE OF DISSATISFACTION WITH LIFE

Pagetopper, damn. Now I have to find something to link.

Here, in honor of our exiled threadmate: Pinkie's Sweet Smile

edited 16th Mar '12 1:42:15 PM by Bluespade

FOXHOUND, DEAD CELL, The Cobras and Liquid Ocelot were all pretty good

@Bad Yubaba's a much better villain than Resetti. And I've been able to catch all of the scorpions and tarantulas I've found, so far...

I loved Spirited Away and Princess Mononoke, but they both left me with a sense of meloncholy introspection after the end, which probably isn't healthy for me. There are two movies which I consider similar in awesomeness, but complete opposite in the feeling they leave me with, Summer Wars and The Girl Who Leapt Through Time.

I just noticed there is a huge gouge in the wall, right over my bed. And I have no idea how it happened. Now I'm paranoid someone else has been in my house.

It's Ginger!

Never seen Mononoke, but I have seen Nausicaa, left me with a similar feeling. I know it depresses me, but it's so gooood...

edited 16th Mar '12 1:47:44 PM by crowlover

@Blue: Mm, fair enough. But I'm an Anti Nihilist. I find chaos to be the most beautiful thing in the world; the idea of a game in which the only value is what you do along the way is incredible to me. I suppose you're right; how you take the game is very much dependent on how you view life already. Someone like me sees the tiny fleeting moments of joy and finds an incredibly beauty in the fleetingness of it all, while you see it and see a tragedy of a fruitless endevour. But in the end, I think, both of us saw something there, and it did make us move, didn't it? So regardless of what we took away - be it tragedy, or awe - I think it succeeds as an artistic statement in that respect. It doesn't matter what you thought, or what you felt, so long as you felt it.

Maybe molemen live in your walls.

edited 16th Mar '12 1:45:48 PM by TheFreeman

It's probably unhealthy how much I loved Summer Wars

UGGGGHHHHHH

edited 16th Mar '12 1:46:38 PM by gingerninja666

@Crowlover: I doubt he could make it across the Atlantic by bus. Although I suppose he does have a motive... after I (helped) convince him to read ASOIAF he's probably pretty pissed at me.

edited 16th Mar '12 1:47:00 PM by Bluespade

@Kegisak: That's the thing though, I didn't feel anything. My sense of tragedy over the ending clashed with the sense of peace and joy I got from actually playing the game, leaving me feeling pretty much neutral. It was a valiant attempt though.

EDIT: I thought this was the one thread I didn't ever have to worry about doubleposting in.

edited 16th Mar '12 1:49:09 PM by Bluespade

You have no idea what kind of buses ginger has access to!

edited 16th Mar '12 1:49:36 PM by crowlover

@ Crowlover: Actually, Nausicaa left me with a different feeling that I couldn't identify until later. I got the same feeling after watching Akira. It wasn't until I read the manga versions of those films that I realized what it was; those movies are woefully incomplete, and you can feel it even if you don't know why.

I take great pride in the knowledge that my family could probably make a good stand-in for the one in Summer Wars.

edited 16th Mar '12 1:50:38 PM by CDRW

Ginger's rage transcends space and time... no doubt he kicked that gouge in your wall without even leaving his room.

@Ginger: Yes, Yes, art bad.

Look, here's something to consider: The value of art isn't in what it says, but in what you hear. It doesn't matter what the game/movie/book was trying to say, it's what you took from it. So a book could have a message but it didn't stick with you (I got literally nothing out of Catcher In The Rye), while something could have no intended meaning, but still make you feel something.

Journey isn't good because of it's message. It has a message because it's good. It's amazingly fun, and if it put the effort it put into being fun into telling me something I wouldn't have cared about whatever it had to say. But because it engaged me and made me have a good time, I took something from it.

Art and entertainment are not mutually exclusive; they aren't even really opposite. As a game designer I recognize that I should always design for fun first, but that doesn't mean there can't be something to it. Even if I don't mean for there to be, someone is going to take something from it.

@Blue: Well... I could argue that that neutrality is a feeling in and of itself, but not everyone is going to take something from everything, I suppose.

edited 16th Mar '12 1:53:08 PM by kegisak

I vastly preferred the American version of Akira.

I completely agree with you, Kegisak. I love art games, that's why I was so hard on Journey, cause I felt like they didn't fully think through the implications of their story.

I think you may be misunderstanding dominant/recessive genes...

edited 16th Mar '12 1:54:32 PM by Bluespade

Twilight and Armour were actually born as part of a Les Enfants Terribles-esque project to create the ultimate unicorn. Twi got all the dominant genes and Armour got all the recessive genes

It's not WHAT you're saying. It's HOW you're saying it.

Yeah, is that film any good?

edited 16th Mar '12 1:54:11 PM by gingerninja666

Could explain why Twi is OP

Wait. How would that affect things?

edited 16th Mar '12 1:54:03 PM by crowlover

@Blue: Oh yeah, that was good... makes me wonder why the hell they're even bothering to make an actual american Akira, when Chronicle is pretty much that.

@Bluespade: The Magic School Bus could probably cross the ocean. I think it went into the ocean in one story, even.

Speaking of which, that made me imagine a crossover where Cheerilee and Twilight teamed up to take the school foals on a trip through some other pony's body, using shrinking magic of some sort. Or Cheerilee is sick and the substitute teacher is a Ms. Frizzle parody who takes the foals on a trip through her body and they help fight her disease.

edited 16th Mar '12 1:55:51 PM by Rainbow

@ Blue, my friend was telling me about that. He says it's really good.

@Ginger: It was amazing. Unfortunately, you wouldn't like. It has a Villain Protagonist.

If you can find it still in theaters, do see it. It's great.

edited 16th Mar '12 1:56:03 PM by Bluespade

...

Chronicle looked like one of those terrible Teen movies... god there was another one that looked just like it a few years earlier that I cant remember the name of.

But Ive heard its really good?