A Midsummer Night's Dream

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…understand it, much less appreciate it. In short, my attitude was the same as yours: All these people who pretend to love it must be pretentious pricks all hoodwinked by the Emperor's New Clothes. I eventually stopped reading almost any fantasy and science fiction and stuck to nonfiction, mostly technical material. But when I was age 22 I picked up a copy of Pullman's The Golden Compass and read it through in one sitting. I thought (and still think) it was the best work of fantasy I had read. I looked the author up online and found that elements of the books had been inspired by Milton's Paradise Lost. I had heard of this work but never read it. I swifly found a free copy on Gutenberg and discovered to my dismay that it was a narrative poem. A fucking poem! But this writer guy says it's the best poem in the English language, so there must…

…alled Hacker News, discussing artistic merit in video games. So it's good. I have a different view of art than you do. I don't think that art must necessarily illustrate the human condition. Do Bach's cello suites make any sort of commentary whatsoever? Not to the untrained eye. They're just expertly crafted pieces of music. That, to me, is the core of art: not necessarily a statement about humanity but the practice of honing your ability with a craft. You can have the best idea imaginable but if you can't tell it well then it's not art. I'm certain that BioShock DOES mean to do what you think it does. It absolutely attempts those route literary devices and it does a pretty good job of that. However, I would not for an instant call BioShock art, because it is not a movie. Its purpose is not primarily to tell a story. Its main role is to b…