History Quotes / NewMediaAreEvil

-->--'''VideoGame/MaxPayne 2''''''

->''"He's been playing those video games an awful lot. Makes him a ''very good shooter''. Holding that controller's like holding a gun, they say in the news! You gotta help me, I fear for my life!"''

->''If men learn this, it will implant forgetfulness in their souls; they will cease to exercise memory because they rely on that which is written, calling things to remembrance no longer from within themselves, but by means of external marks. What you have discovered is a recipe not for memory, but for reminder. And it is no true wisdom that you offer your disciples, but only its semblance, for by telling them of many things without teaching them you will make them seem to know much, while for the most part they know nothing, and as men filled, not with wisdom, but with the conceit of wisdom, they will be a burden to their fellows.''
-->=-'''{{Plato}}''', on the invention of ''writing''.

->''In the old days when everyone played with, I don't know, wooden pegs, kids couldn't wait to do their homework.''
-->-- '''CharlieBrooker''', ''Gameswipe'' on [[JustOneMoreLevel video game addiction]]

->''"I asked Mr Vann which [[UsefulNotes/BritishEducationSystem O levels]] you need to write [[SitCom situation comedy]] for television. Mr Vann said you don't need qualifications at all, you just need to be a moron."''
-->-- ''The Secret Diary of Literature/AdrianMole Aged 13¾''

->''"Consueta vitia ferimus, nova reprendimus. [[note]]We tolerate the usual vices but blame new ones.[[/note]]"''
-->-- '''Publilius Syrus'''

->''All the new media are art forms which have the power of imposing, like poetry, their own assumptions. The new media are not ways of relating us the "real" world; they are the real world and they reshape what remains of the old world at will.''

->''Any new media or industry that grows rapidly is going to be criticized. That's just because the older, more established media have been around, and a lot of adults can be very conservative. They may not have an open mind to new things that weren't around when they were growing up, and are replacing the things they grew up with... over the years I've seen this standard image of a child playing a video game in which the child is alone in a darkened room, with his face very close to the TV, with the light of the TV reflecting off his face, holding the controller and just staring at the TV. I'd really like to be able to change that image of video games into something that's a little more positive.''

->''"No phone, no phone, I just want to be alone today"''
-->-- Cake - No Phone'''

->"''People will live in a condition of splendid physical isolation. Television -- that is, the ability to see your best friend over a distance of many miles -- and wireless telephony will lead to this condition. There will be less desire in those days for close physical communication. That desire is a relic of barbarism.''"
-->-- Futurist ''A.M. Lowe'', writing about the future in ''1920''. Inverted because he seemed to see this as a good thing.

->''"It's nice to see that criticism isn't just for movies and video games. [[DeadpanSnarker Bloody opera - corrupting our kids...]]"''
-->--''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedIII'''s Animus Database on ''Theatre/TheBeggarsOpera''

->''"We don't like, what we don't, understand in fact it scares us..."''
-->--''The mob'' from ''Disney/BeautyAndTheBeast'', accurate to what most people feel about it.

->''"To put things into perspective, the movie ''PansLabyrinth'' came out the same year as ''RuleOfRose''. Both are quite similar: they star little girls that have to live in unnatural conditions (the Spanish Civil War, an orphanage) and who escape in a world of make-believe that is potentially even worse than their reality. In either case, whether or not the supernatural elements are real is open to interpretation. ''Pan's Labyrinth'' received Oscars and its director went on to direct Hollywood blockbusters. ''Rule of Rose'' was mostly ignored and the only notoriety is has received was for allegedly being [[CowboyBebopAtHisComputer violent kiddie porn]]. It's hard not to see this as a case study for how unfairly games are treated in mainstream media."''
-->--'''''Hardcore Gaming 101'''''

->''"The fact that games are a threat to traditional media is why they’re constantly being marginalized by the mainstream. And this marginalization explains why we have so many pathetic editorials by game journalists and industry spokespeople who try to find ways to '[[ProfessionalButtKisser legitimize]]' gaming in the eyes of the media and make it more 'inclusive', 'mainstream', and 'accepted'. They don’t get it. They don’t understand that it’s a war, and videogames and the new media are winning big time. Calling videogames artistically illegitimate, childish, etc. is the only weapon of the old media, besides lobbying for games to be classified as dangerous [[MurderSimulators killing simulators]]."''
-->--'''[[http://metagearsolid.org/2013/08/official-review-mgs2-a-complete-breakdown/ Terry Wolf]]'''

->''"To put things into perspective, the movie ''PansLabyrinth'' came out the same year as ''RuleOfRose''. Both are quite similar: they star little girls that have to live in unnatural conditions (the Spanish Civil War, an orphanage) and who escape in a world of make-believe that is potentially even worse than their reality. In either case, whether or not the supernatural elements are real is open to interpretation. ''Pan's Labyrinth'' received Oscars and its director went on to direct Hollywood blockbusters. Rule of Rose was mostly ignored and the only notoriety is has received was for allegedly being violent kiddie porn. It's hard not to see this as a case study for how unfairly games are treated in mainstream media."''

->"''There's so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?''"
-->-- '''Dick Cavett'''

->''"The fact that television personalities so notoriously took precedence over the politicians at Miami Beach was noted with sour wonder by journalists who have begun to fear that their rendering of events into lines of linear type may prove to be as irrelevant an exercise as turning contemporary literature into Greek. The fact that in a hotel lobby it was [[{{CBS}} Eric Severeid]] not John Tower who collected a crowd was thought to be a sign of the essential light-mindedness of the electorate. Yet Severeid belongs to the country in a way few politicians ever do. Only UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan among the politicians at Miami exerted the same spell, and for the same reason: he is a bona fide star of the ''LateShow'', equally ubiquitous, equally mythic."''
-->--'''Creator/GoreVidal''', "The Twenty-Ninth Republican Convention"

-->-'''{{Plato}}''', on the invention of ''writing''.

-->--''{{VideoGame/AssassinsCreedIII}}'''s Animus Database on ''Theatre/TheBeggarsOpera''

->''"I asked Mr Vann which [[BritishEducationSystem O levels]] you need to write [[SitCom situation comedy]] for television. Mr Vann said you don't need qualifications at all, you just need to be a moron."''

->''"Consueta vitia ferimus, nova reprendimus. [[hottip:*:We tolerate the usual vices but blame new ones.]]"''

->"''There's so much comedy on television. [[AnalogyBackfire Does that cause]] [[ImprovEverywhere comedy in the streets]]?''"

->''"I'd like to think we'd be a little better than that....but seeing how many people who grew up with their parents going after TheBeatles and ElvisPresley now wigging out over VideoGames and HarryPotter...you might be more GenreSavvy than you think."''

-->-- ''The Secret Diary of AdrianMole Aged 13¾''

-->--''The mob'' from ''BeautyAndTheBeast'', accurate to what most people feel about it.

-- Attributed to both '''Sen. James Exon''' and '''Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas''', circa 1996

-->-- '''Marshall McLuhan'''