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| Re: Roger Ebert is a pompous, arrogant old man... by Bananadine 09/28/2007, 5:29pm PDT | ||||
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Clive Barker wrote: Well obviously not--he is just a critic. It is kind of funny how people get on him for saying that thing just because he is a big shot famous man and he made a hypothesis they don't like. And it has to be just a hypothesis, and not a deeply investigated conclusion, because the guy hasn't even really played games, he doesn't care enough about them to do more than begin figuring out whether they can be art, until somebody finally shoves a beautiful transcendent playthrough video of American McGee's Michaelangelo's David's War & Peace 2015 in his face, along with a helpful explanatory essay on what is happening and what it means. He is like everybody's dismissive dad or something and he doesn't even care, he just wants to review his movies. I think the thing he did wrong was to present his hypothesis as if it were hard fact, without much in the way of "I think this is how it is, but I might be missing something" disclaimers, which is something that some kinds of people just do I guess, it comes naturally to them. Because of course everything is just speculation on some level and could be proven wrong, so why fall over yourself acknowedging that again and again? not realizing 90% of the people he is talking to are Final Fantasy-addled teenagers. In one little spot I think he even straight-up said he'll change his opinion when he gets the evidence! But people are still like, waaahh dad you don't understand me. Interestingly, Barker said earlier in the podcast that he had taken the time to craft a rather nasty letter to send to Ebert – something that he said he took up after his own father's expertise in letter writing – but in the end Barker decided to tear it up after learning of Ebert's illness. (Ebert has suffered with cancer, which spread and required multiple surgeries, including a tracheostomy.) American had better hurry it up then. :( |
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Ebert gets gay with kids, untramples a few dreams. by 09/28/2007, 1:14am PDT  I guess life sucked the marrow out of HIM! NT by 09/28/2007, 7:50am PDT Yaaaa? :( NT by 09/28/2007, 8:11am PDT as the makers of dreams we like to speak for the *chiwdren* NT by 09/28/2007, 11:39am PDT Roger Ebert is a pompous, arrogant old man... by 09/28/2007, 4:17pm PDT Cancer makes you immune to criticism NT by 09/28/2007, 5:14pm PDT Re: Roger Ebert is a pompous, arrogant old man... by 09/28/2007, 5:29pm PDT |
