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"Bad novels/movies etc. make for good gaming"

Started by Pierce Inverarity, April 28, 2008, 02:43:08 AM

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Gunslinger

#45
April 30, 2008, 02:41:56 PM
I hated what Carpenter did with Vampire$.
 

droog

#46
April 30, 2008, 06:56:12 PM
Still reading Greenberg, Pierce?
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The poor still weak the rich still rule
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Pierce Inverarity

#47
April 30, 2008, 10:32:02 PM
Still hiding your vacuity behind the one-line quip?

Or do you have a contribution to make?

Last time you didn't. You chickened out.

Will you chicken out again?
Ich habe mir schon sehr lange keine Gedanken mehr über Bleistifte gemacht.--Settembrini

droog

#48
May 01, 2008, 06:07:46 AM
I know you are, but what am I? When did I last see you put any effort in?
The past lives on in your front room
The poor still weak the rich still rule
History lives in the books at home
The books at home

Gang of Four
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Pierce Inverarity

#49
May 01, 2008, 01:23:34 PM
QED #2.
Ich habe mir schon sehr lange keine Gedanken mehr über Bleistifte gemacht.--Settembrini

arminius

#50
May 01, 2008, 01:38:03 PM
In the late modern era, is there now something like "reverse kitsch", i.e. middlebrow aping the art of "the people", perhaps out of a longing for "real culture" as in "keepin' it real"?

Pierce Inverarity

#51
May 01, 2008, 02:17:48 PM
Examples, please.
Ich habe mir schon sehr lange keine Gedanken mehr über Bleistifte gemacht.--Settembrini

arminius

#52
May 01, 2008, 02:25:44 PM
Gangster rap marketed to and purchased by middle class white boys.

EDIT: also, perhaps, New Age repackaging of third-world religious/tribal belief.

Pierce Inverarity

#53
May 01, 2008, 02:41:44 PM
No, that's primitivism, broadly conceived. Primitivism = downwardly / backwardly mobile (failed effort to plug into rawness / spirituality). Kitsch = upwardly mobile (failed effort to produce high art or lit, e.g. Neil Gaiman's novels).
Ich habe mir schon sehr lange keine Gedanken mehr über Bleistifte gemacht.--Settembrini

flyingmice

#54
May 01, 2008, 02:53:35 PM
Quote from: Pierce InverarityNo, that's primitivism, broadly conceived. Primitivism = downwardly / backwardly mobile (failed effort to plug into rawness / spirituality). Kitsch = upwardly mobile (failed effort to produce high art or lit, e.g. Neil Gaiman's novels).

Which is why the rabbit referred to it as "reverse kitch" I think... :D

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arminius

#55
May 01, 2008, 03:01:23 PM
Yes, at this remove, I think it's just a lack of familiarity with the standard terms.

droog

#56
May 01, 2008, 04:31:36 PM
Quote from: Pierce InverarityQED #2.
I wonder who you think you're demonstrating to, dummkopf.
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