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The people who oppose Gamergate have been making the argument that Gamergate is hurting and destroying the viability of Games as an art form, constraining it to the narrow margins of what gamers themselves enjoy and limiting the possibility of having different styles of game. The opposite is true, though. Those who feel that the kind of criticism that demands obeisance to a certain non-harmful, non-offending medium of art is the exact sort of thing that people dislike regarding post-modern sentiments in other art mediums. When art ceased to provoke a reaction, or offend anyone, it ceases to be art and becomes only material to be consumed. Art is not a safe thing. Art stirs emotions, it riles the spirit and at times it can unseat the deepest of rooted sentiments, unveiling and revealing elements of the self that lay hidden even from ourseves. To defend Video Games as art necessitates that people argue for and defend both the basest as well as the beautiful angels and demons of our nature. To want video games to be art means to accept the venal and the debauched aside the sublime and the transcendent, because art of all kinds is a bisection of the human soul, a cutting through the layers to show the light and dark rippled center of our beings. Art is not merely what pleases and comforts, it is also what disturbs and disquiets. It is both the things that inspire us to be better than animals, and likewise that which reminds us we are little better than. And so, for those that oppose Gamergate, it is instead you that seek to diminish Games into a medium of bland purposelessness. If we were to sit idly and allow your ridicule of game makers to fashion the narrative of what games must be, we should then expect nothing more than merely pleasant ideas that nudge no-one from their comfitted notions. Your form of equality beggars us all to abandon what makes us individually unique, that we might avoid any untoward bruising of either our cushioned and sanitized neo-mundi or the the infrequent abrasions and lacerations of a world with colors and shades. The Heretic of Ethics

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Our Guy

Our Guy

Nov 19, 2014 at 05:25PM EST

Reminsd me of this.

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Evil-Tree

Evil-Tree

Nov 20, 2014 at 06:28AM EST

Based Heretic.
(1000 Space Marines take aim)
Not that kind of heretic!
(They relax but do the "I'm watching you" gesture)

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