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If Oscar Wilde had lived in our time, he would be a /b/tard.

Actually, scratch that. He does, and goes by Jethro Q Walrustitty.

Edited by GastonRabbit on Nov 11th 2022 at 8:59:26 AM

Zudak Since: Dec, 1969
#61526: Mar 18th 2011 at 12:37:25 PM

FUCK YOU TZETZE MY MOM DIED OF ELECTRICITY

Glowsquid Since: Jul, 2009
#61527: Mar 18th 2011 at 12:50:11 PM

Sega failed because it relied too much on base appeal to Freudian militarism (as opposed to bad bussiness decisions and poor marketing), now you know.

In 1999, Sega launched its final home console, the Sega Dreamcast. Sega's first console to be designed in white rather than black plastic, it appeared initially as though the system could feminize Sega's product line, thus expanding its marketability to family audiences.

By creating unlicensed software and emulators themselves, enthusiast “antiheros” demonstrate the skills and tools necessary to be “productive of [themselves]” (Burrill 124), becoming “the code, the coder and the decoder” (ibid)— re-creating the hardware environments which created their identities through play in the past, re-articulating a new set of values in each new context of time or operating environment that the games are able to enter through emulation.

Despite any qualitative 'gameplay value' present in Sega home products, their competitors' products possessed the symbolic value of rendering video gaming appropriate to a home theater environment, achieved intertextually through synergy between hardware design, software curation, marketing, and various other actions of “cultural intermediaries” (De Peuter 82). Rather than replacing “the mass consumers in the cinema hall with a single, lonely cybernaut” (Kittler 227) as had been done in their successful arcade and auteur games, Sega's competitors cinematized gaming for a mass audience. Game systems like Microsoft's X-Box and Sony's Play Station 2 added a new dimension of value to their products by providing DVD movie functionality in their machines, further dissimulating their military origins.

Their article on the 3DO is surprisingly not-shit, though.

edited 18th Mar '11 12:51:15 PM by Glowsquid

Zudak Since: Dec, 1969
#61528: Mar 18th 2011 at 12:52:39 PM

achieved intertextually through synergy

fuckin buzzwords, how do they work

Zyxzy Embrace the mindscrew from Salem, OR Since: Jan, 2001
Embrace the mindscrew
#61529: Mar 18th 2011 at 12:55:34 PM

The point-and-counterpoint interaction resulting a sum greater than its parts. I think.

What's the frequency Kenneth?|In case of war.
Tzetze DUMB from a converted church in Venice, Italy Since: Jan, 2001
Zyxzy Embrace the mindscrew from Salem, OR Since: Jan, 2001
Embrace the mindscrew
#61532: Mar 18th 2011 at 12:59:17 PM

Freudian militarism

So that's why women don't play games.

What's the frequency Kenneth?|In case of war.
SPACETRAVEL from ☉ Since: Oct, 2010
Wicked223 from Death Star in the forest Since: Apr, 2009
#61534: Mar 18th 2011 at 1:10:28 PM

*click* *boom*

You can't even write racist abuse in excrement on somebody's car without the politically correct brigade jumping down your throat!
Charlatan Since: Mar, 2011
Wicked223 from Death Star in the forest Since: Apr, 2009
#61536: Mar 18th 2011 at 1:16:21 PM

My little sister keeps jumping up and down with her arms extended and calling it her "African dance".

This is strangely infuriating.

You can't even write racist abuse in excrement on somebody's car without the politically correct brigade jumping down your throat!
Tzetze DUMB from a converted church in Venice, Italy Since: Jan, 2001
DUMB
#61537: Mar 18th 2011 at 1:17:07 PM

pff haha

That reminds me that I just found out that Kagerou's author likes My Little Pony, and has drawn the requisite self-fanart, that doesn't make sense

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SpainSun Laugh it off, everybody from Somewhere Beyond Here Since: Jan, 2010
Laugh it off, everybody
#61538: Mar 18th 2011 at 1:17:42 PM

How old is your sister?

With sufficient youngness I'd probably find it some mixture of cute and funny.

I spread my wings and I learn how to fly....
Wicked223 from Death Star in the forest Since: Apr, 2009
#61539: Mar 18th 2011 at 1:17:54 PM

8-9.

You can't even write racist abuse in excrement on somebody's car without the politically correct brigade jumping down your throat!
SpainSun Laugh it off, everybody from Somewhere Beyond Here Since: Jan, 2010
Laugh it off, everybody
#61540: Mar 18th 2011 at 1:21:50 PM

It falls into funny til they're 12 or so, imo.

I spread my wings and I learn how to fly....
Myrmidon The Ant King from In Antartica Since: Nov, 2009
The Ant King
#61541: Mar 18th 2011 at 1:22:14 PM

Histories that contribute to the Feynman sum don't have an independent existence, but depend on what is being measured. We create history by our observation, rather than history creating us

There's a word for that, Hawking. It's called idealism.

Kill all math nerds
Charlatan Since: Mar, 2011
#61542: Mar 18th 2011 at 1:26:32 PM

@Wicked: Why do I imagine it looking like this?

Tzetze DUMB from a converted church in Venice, Italy Since: Jan, 2001
annebeeche watching down on us from by the long tidal river Since: Nov, 2010
watching down on us
#61546: Mar 18th 2011 at 1:40:01 PM

What the hell? I borderline over-cooked these damn things! Why are they still cold in the center!?

Banned entirely for telling FE that he was being rude and not contributing to the discussion. I shall watch down from the goon heavens.
Charlatan Since: Mar, 2011
#61547: Mar 18th 2011 at 1:40:45 PM

We have users from seemingly everywhere in East Asia except actually Japan.

I'm still boggling over this.

Zyxzy Embrace the mindscrew from Salem, OR Since: Jan, 2001
Embrace the mindscrew
#61548: Mar 18th 2011 at 1:42:05 PM

They have their own piece of the Internet to play with.

What's the frequency Kenneth?|In case of war.
Tzetze DUMB from a converted church in Venice, Italy Since: Jan, 2001
DUMB
#61550: Mar 18th 2011 at 1:49:12 PM

Really? Don't think I've seen any Thai posters, for example...

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