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  • Darktremor's 50 Favorite house tracks, in order of best to...less best   3 hours 1 min ago

    what about David Alvarado - Blue (Smith & Selway Remix)?
    Heard it for the fist time on James Holdons essential mix in 2002, and I think its a great track!

  • Favorite Movies   5 hours 6 min ago

    Sounds amazing. I hope to enjoy it as much as you have. I'll get back to you on what I think. Thanks.

    btw, your list and comments show up all mushed together for some reason. Don't know if it's my computer or some other glitch. It doesn't happen on anyone elses so I'm assuming it's coming from your end.

  • The 2009 Screening Log, Boyo   5 hours 55 min ago

    You know how I feel about the Coens. Hell, I loved INTOLERABLE CRUELTY. But this... this is shit. No idea what everyone's seeing in it.

  • 350 Best of the Best Trance Songs   6 hours 29 min ago

    Omg how embarrassing!!!!!

  • Where are videogames as art (using film metaphor)?   9 hours 13 min ago

    Even if you don't think that videogames could've possibly hit any era past The New Wave you should at least offer later eras up as a voting choice for those who might.

  • Things On My Bedroom Walls   10 hours 48 min ago

    What all pictures i can attach to my bedroom wall to make it look good?

    flooring

  • Favorite Films   13 hours 13 min ago

    Good, I'm glad you caught the 142 min version. That's the one I have on my list. Though the original is quite good, the 142 min version is definitely an upgrade.

    ...I guess Duffy scraped together enough finances and help to unveil his second masterwork of the decade...

    I like how by printing that you refuse to type "LOL" you ended up typing it. LOL.

    ...I am afraid that Mr Bolton would go even bigger though...

  • Best Videogames of all time   14 hours 17 min ago

    Holy crap Facade, fuck YES.
    I am really happy there is another person who treats videogames as some real kind of art; I've heard it suggested (somewhere or another; I can't remember where) that, after film as the leading 20th century art medium, videogames will be the leading 21st century art medium. I like of like the idea because it can sort of make a digital "art installation" so to speak that canb e viewed more than just in a single location and allows for more ambitiousness.
    I sort of like how you are being quite critical of the gigantically young medium. Reminds me of looking at Piero Scaruffi's ratings of 1950s rock albums.

    I see you're not too fond of Silent Hill 2, eh? I'm kinda curious if Silent Hill 1 would get anything higher. I believe that both do make great strides for videogames-as-art. The ending-scenes in Silent Hill 2, everything that takes place in the hotel, I find extremely emotionally powerful and artistically made. That said, I think Silent Hill 1 works better on a whole.

    I've got a few suggestions though; some games that could be put into an art category.
    -Pathologic (by Ice Pick Lodge, PC). One of the first company-produced games made not solely for entertainment but for the same intent as , like, Tarkovsky made movies (I've made the dumb crack "It's like 'Stalker' the videogame' Heheh). But the game is a little bit sloppily made and has an atrocious English translation and can be a bit dauntingly difficult (I find), but it is quite ambitious and a retranslation project is sort of in the works. The makers of the game really like Antonin Artaud, Albert Camus, Nicholai Gogol, and such. So despite its problems, I feel that it is a watershed of possibilities for the future. (Hilariously, this game won a Russian-Game-Award that basically amounts to "Weirdest game of the year").
    -Chrono Trigger (by Square, SNES). This is the JRPG that people who hate JRPGs even like. I think it might be worth something. One of the first games with multiple endings where your actions effect later portions of the story. If you play through every single aspect of the game (instead of muscling through it) the characters really seem to grow and develop (at least as much as a videogame allows heh).
    - Dance Dance Revolution (by Konami, various systems). Solely because it is a videogame THAT IS EXERCISE. Heh, that's gotta be worth something for extending the "scope" of videogames.
    -Siren (by Keiichirō Toyama, PS2) Horror game, More convoluted weird-ass plot than Silent Hill, and also one of the most painfully difficult games I've ever played. Gameplay is very tense mostly because the characters you play often are not able to defend themselves, so they must run, hide, and distract the enemies. One of the most frightening parts has you play as a 6-year-old child, defenseless in a place where everyone is a zombie or slowly becoming one. Has an interesting style, worth a look, I'd say.
    -Deus Ex (by Warren Spector, PC). This game is one of the most ambitious I've seen, but oftentimes falls flat on its face. Although everyone else loves the hell out of it, so might want to give it a shot.
    -Killer 7 (by Suda51, PS2). I haven't actually played this but I've seen it listed as some kind of art-piece deconstruction-of-videogames thing, so... Maybe? I think it certainly does look very interesting though.

    I'm rambling , though, great list!

  • Where are videogames as art (using film metaphor)?   14 hours 18 min ago

    The same sort of thing was told to people who wanted to make film as art. The Lumiere Brothers themselves never thought of their invention as more of a scientific recording tool or a trivial little thing.

    Halo is totally not art. To say "well is Halo art?" in this discussion is like going "Well is Michael Bay's Transformers art?" while talking about movies. Have you ever played a game that people actually call art?
    Here's a place to start: http://db.tigsource.com/games/facade . Shadow Of The Colossus is another place to look, or the Russian game Pathologic.
    Games will totally change from what they are now; videogames are an extremely young medium where not much has been said or done yet and everyone talking about videogame art is really hoping for the future here; consider how things changed between 1905 and 1925; the space between stupid little penny arcade frivolousness to things like The Passion of Joan Of Arc.

    So you just wait, I guess.

  • 2009 Films: Ranked   17 hours 4 min ago

    I'm afraid there's no set guidelines for my ratings other than my own subjective views. I'd be happy to elaborate my views on certain films if there's something you're interested in hearing my opinion on though. :D

  • album log: May (20) 2009 --->   18 hours 43 min ago

    haha, i forgot about that. DIG WHILE YOUR SHOVEL IS SHARP!

  • album log: May (20) 2009 --->   19 hours 34 min ago

    Thanks for the review. Now let me get back to digging!

  • Albums that Scaruffi Underrates   19 hours 41 min ago

    Indeed! It was my first Res album and I still love it to this day. I think he finds their more song-oriented material less impressive. Maybe in comparison to Not Available. But, come on now, very few bands can pull off such an outstanding collection of perverse pop tunes (except maybe Butthole Surfers). So catchy too!

  • Where are videogames as art (using film metaphor)?   20 hours 48 min ago

    There are many popular video games with strong artistic components. The question about video games isn't whether they are art, but whether they are good art. And I think some games are. I just can't understand why you feel that way with all the games that have come out over the past 20 years. This has been a spectacular decade for video games.

  • Favorite Films   23 hours 3 min ago

    "Is that the "Final Cut" of Brazil you have on here, or is it the original?"

    I believe it was the 142 minute cut that’s on the Criterion edition. I believe the original theatrical release had a tacked-on happy ending, a la Blade Runner, which this edition was thankfully lacking. Anyways, AMAZING film.

    "btw, Boondock Saints 2 just came out!"

    Yes, it seems that the Q-pocalypse is finally upon us.

    "Now all we need is both a Michael Bolton and Kenny G album to be released this week...titles could be something like "Nuthin But A Kenny G Thang" and of course, "Lightning Bolt From The Blue Sky Where We Carry On Our Monumental Love That Moves Endless Mountains And Vast Panoramas While Legions Of Horses Run Across Sand Dunes That Feature Brilliant Bonfires Beneath Cliffs And Canyons In The Desert That Dries Our Sunburnt Love, An Autobiographical Musical Ode To My Life By Michael Bolton, Part 1 of 4"..."

    I refuse to type “LOL”, but that truly did make me laugh out loud. O my Lord, that may be the greatest album name ever.

  • Where are videogames as art (using film metaphor)?   23 hours 10 min ago

    I did. And wow. That is....very unexpected.

  • Where are videogames as art (using film metaphor)?   23 hours 12 min ago

    http://www.museumofplay.org/NTHoF/

    Their inductees for this year: http://www.museumofplay.org/about_us/files/nthof_winners_09.pdf

    And in fact: http://www.museumofplay.org/nthof/toys/index.php?toy=candy_land

    (P.S. You probably meant an art museum, but I was just amused that you made that comment since I just heard about this place the other day.)

  • Where are videogames as art (using film metaphor)?   23 hours 15 min ago

    I don't really look for art in things like movies or music, but for the sake of argument I believe video games are about as close to art as Scrabble. You can probably count on one hand the number of people who made a game with the intention of creating art. Games are viewed as entertainment and are made with that in mind. This whole "games are art" deal is a bid from gamers to be taken seriously, nothing more.

    Even games considered the greatest of all time are considered entertainment; who views Halo as art over something fun? Video games are not art, they are nothing more than highly complex....well, games. Is dodgeball art? Do we have critics evaluate the artistic merits of Monopoly? No! Just because a lot of work is put into something does not make it art. If video games drastically change within the next few years, then sure, they could be. For now, though, gamers just want to be taken seriously, and possibly developers want more appreciation for all the work they put in.

    We call video games art at this stage, we might as well hang Candy Land in a museum.

  • Years Starting From The Year "AD 1"   23 hours 27 min ago

    I think you should rank them by preference instead of chronologically.

  • Media and Violence   1 day 3 hours ago

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  • Novels About Time Travel   1 day 5 hours ago

    thanks for sharing:

    Finland Holidays Short breaks and holidays to Finland.

  • Drupal Beginner Resources   1 day 6 hours ago

    Alright I must admit, I am jumping on the Drupal bandwagon (if there is such a thing). I just have to admit that it is so much better than Joomla (the other CMS heavyweight at the current time).

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  • 2009 Films: Ranked   1 day 10 hours ago

    ... reasons for why this or that movie is better or worse ... ?

  • Albums that Scaruffi Underrates   1 day 17 hours ago

    Have you heard Duck Stab by the Residents? I'm baffled that Scaruffi gives it a 6. It's awesome.