All artistic mediums excel at one particular aspect. They’re good at others, but each one has a facet that it is just fantastic at manipulating or exemplifying. Painting, for instance, can be of a painterly quality, which sounds obvious, but perhaps you don’t fully understand what it means to be painterly. Most of van Gogh’s [...]
So it’s the New Year. 2013. Yay? I don’t know. I was never big on that sort of thing. It was always just a frustrating few weeks at school as I wrote down the wrong date and forced resolutions that I never wanted to make or stick to (I think daily goals are much more [...]
It’s a joke I heard first from the guys on The Totally Rad Show, and it kind of always stuck with me. Since that year, I’ve always thought about the winners and nominees of the Best Directing Academy Award: is it really the best directing or is it just the most directing? It is usually [...]
I’ve always found it upsetting when people describe games as “unforgiving” and then just leave it at that. That sets up such a small facet of the game that you might as well start over with the plastic wrap around the box. A game can be unforgiving but fair or unforgiving and an unrepentant piece [...]
I have a friend that loves to make wide, sweeping generalizations that, to him, are pure fact free from conjecture or idiocy. To me, these proclaimed absolutes exemplify the fact that he’s never taken a statistics class because they’re all based on a sample size of two, usually either out of ignorance or laziness. When [...]
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