Hi, internet! Here I am at last. Oh, wait, no one's here. Well, hello, anyway. I am Cake and I'm here because there just weren't enough words on the internet already.
We'll depart (a little) from this theme eventually, but seeing as my involvement in this thing came about because Jane del Jana and I were making noise at one another regarding Games As Art and somewhere a blog was mentioned, I'm gonna expound on it, too. Specifically, how art is bullshit.
Here's the thing: Most people talking out of their asses (and all of us, everywhere, are talking out our asses) about Games As Art know diddly-fucking-squat about art in any way, shape, or form. Hence they have this Grand Notion of how art is an elevated ideal to which all human endeavor must aspire, and that which is Not-Art falls short and is somehow wanting. Granted, tons of people who actually know a lot about art and sometimes make a fuckton of money off of that knowledge think the same thing.
I disagree.
We'll depart (a little) from this theme eventually, but seeing as my involvement in this thing came about because Jane del Jana and I were making noise at one another regarding Games As Art and somewhere a blog was mentioned, I'm gonna expound on it, too. Specifically, how art is bullshit.
Here's the thing: Most people talking out of their asses (and all of us, everywhere, are talking out our asses) about Games As Art know diddly-fucking-squat about art in any way, shape, or form. Hence they have this Grand Notion of how art is an elevated ideal to which all human endeavor must aspire, and that which is Not-Art falls short and is somehow wanting. Granted, tons of people who actually know a lot about art and sometimes make a fuckton of money off of that knowledge think the same thing.
I disagree.
