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Jasonbobdude
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09:36:21 PM Mar 20th 2010
Would Wacky Delly be considered this?
MikeRosoft
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04:22:01 AM Jul 21st 2010
I came here to add the game Passage to the list, but it was already there; so I'll just comment.

I read about the game at the debate whether or not a video game could be art, so I downloaded and ran it - and this is what I saw:

You just keep walking to the right along changing "scenery" and listening to music that even 20 years ago would have been called "poor and annoying". Alternately, you can go down and explore the "maze" of squares and collect treasure (that doesn't seem to do anything); for some reason, if you get the girl, it makes exploring nearly impossible. (Supposedly, your character dies after five minutes [and the girl some time before that]; I got bored WAY before finding out.)

Everybody seems to comment how deep and artistic the game is; it probably does have some kind of a deep meaning, but I just don't get it.
AnonymousMcCartneyfan
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09:46:04 PM Aug 9th 2010
I don't know whether the current page picture, "The Lights Going On and Off," deserves to be called art, but it is definitely striking.
Gerazzi
07:34:28 PM Sep 3rd 2010
I don't know, I just keep on expecting Uboa to appear.

...

Stupid Paranoia Fuel game. Now I can't sleep...
MadCormorant
09:38:50 PM May 25th 2011
Based on what I learned about the nature of the sublime, I'd say it is, though whether it's award-winning material or not is not for me to decide. In the light, everything is visible, and nothing incites imagination. In the dark, shadows prevent people from seeing everything, and forces them to fill in the gaps with their imagination, making something that would be mundane in the light become greater than itself in the dark.

Or, I'm just running off at the mouth again.
ThatHuman
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09:51:40 AM Sep 6th 2010
It says that only Real Life section proves how this is Truth In Television. Thing is, shouldn't all examples where the work itself is incomprehensible true art count as proving this. It's about what people think, so if a TV producer/director/writer makes a show that's incomprehensible as "true art", wouldn't this count just as much as a painter making an incomprehensible picture as "true art"? Since this is about real life thoughts and opinions of people. I'm not suggesting to move everything into the "Real Life" section, only that stuff in "Comic Books", "Live Action Television" and so on should count as proof of this subject's truth-ness since it shows what the creator of the works believe regards to the trueness of art.
Lenoxus
11:04:58 AM Jan 31st 2012
edited by Lenoxus
I think the trope description should be reworded to make it "zeroth level". In other words, this trope is simply when art (in the real world) is incomprehensible and people seem to like it for that. It's not when art in a work of fiction is incomprehensible; instead, that's an in-universe example. If a work of art is itself "humorously inomprehensible", that might be a parody. If a work of art is incomprehensible but points this out to its own audience, that's a lampshade. Most of the page examples are written along these lines — instead of in a way actually matching the current description.

(For example, a "parody" of the trop under the trope's current description would be making fun of the idea that snooty artists like making incomprehensible art, not making fun of the art itself. This parody would serve as a defense for the modern art that people think is just confusing for its own sake.)
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