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GamemasterAnthony
Shitgobbling pissdrinker
Join date: 2009-07-23
Age: 37
Location: Minneapolis, MN, Rift-Earth
|  Subject: Video Games are now Officially an Artform Sun May 08, 2011 6:55 pm | |
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Long story short: The National Endowment for the Arts now recognizes the creation of video games an actual art form.
While this is only in the US for right now, it is definitely a step in the right direction. I believe it also means they are now protected under the First Amendment if I'm reading this right. |
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Cyberwulf
NO NOT THE BEEEEES
Join date: 2009-06-03
Age: 30
Location: TRILOBITE!
| | Subject: Re: Video Games are now Officially an Artform Sun May 08, 2011 7:23 pm | |
| ...So? I mean, in the heel of the hunt what difference does it make? Woo, some artsy fartsy council says video games are on the same level as TV shows and movies. |
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rae
Contributor
Join date: 2009-06-10
Location: computer chair
| | Subject: Re: Video Games are now Officially an Artform Sun May 08, 2011 9:22 pm | |
| Mostly it matters for the artists who spend every bit as much effort on their works as, say, a painter. It's recognition that they are really artists. |
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Electron Blue
VileCorp's Muscly Woman-slave
Join date: 2009-06-11
| | Subject: Re: Video Games are now Officially an Artform Sun May 08, 2011 11:26 pm | |
| It also means that video games can be covered under First Amendment law, hopefully, which is a problem the gaming community was facing. We didn't want to become Australia or Germany. |
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Penguin
NO NOT THE BEEEEES
Join date: 2009-07-19
Location: Wild Gray Yonder
| | Subject: Re: Video Games are now Officially an Artform Mon May 09, 2011 6:04 am | |
| | Electron Blue wrote: | | It also means that video games can be covered under First Amendment law, hopefully, which is a problem the gaming community was facing. We didn't want to become Australia or Germany. |
Yeah. And it should stop idiotic blowhard NYC mayors from threatening video game makers with charges of crimes against humanity if they don't censor themselves. |
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Lapin
Knight of the Bleach
Join date: 2009-06-10
Age: 23
Location: Maryland
| | Subject: Re: Video Games are now Officially an Artform Mon May 09, 2011 3:54 pm | |
| Yeah, I've never understood all the hate on video game makers, and the claims of "corrupting children". If the game says "MA: 17+", that means don't buy it for your 13-year-old.
I just really don't get parents who want to blame everyone but themselves for their kids. |
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Aggie
Armbiter of Good Fanfiction
Join date: 2009-06-11
| | Subject: Re: Video Games are now Officially an Artform Tue May 10, 2011 5:18 am | |
| | Penguin wrote: | | Electron Blue wrote: | | It also means that video games can be covered under First Amendment law, hopefully, which is a problem the gaming community was facing. We didn't want to become Australia or Germany. |
Yeah. And it should stop idiotic blowhard NYC mayors from threatening video game makers with charges of crimes against humanity if they don't censor themselves. |
WTF? I haven't heard of this particular brand of idiocy before. |
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Penguin
NO NOT THE BEEEEES
Join date: 2009-07-19
Location: Wild Gray Yonder
| | Subject: Re: Video Games are now Officially an Artform Tue May 10, 2011 8:28 am | |
| | Aggie wrote: | | Penguin wrote: | | Electron Blue wrote: | | It also means that video games can be covered under First Amendment law, hopefully, which is a problem the gaming community was facing. We didn't want to become Australia or Germany. |
Yeah. And it should stop idiotic blowhard NYC mayors from threatening video game makers with charges of crimes against humanity if they don't censor themselves. |
WTF? I haven't heard of this particular brand of idiocy before. |
Bloomberg got on the bandwagon against Grant Theft Auto: Vice City back in the day, over Cuban/Haitian gang war missions. Apparently a violent Cuban psychopath telling Tommy Vercetti to "KILL ALL THE HAITIANS!" was a call to video gamers everywhere to actually kill all Haitians. In real life. Or something. Unfortunately, a bit of googling so far hasn't turned up the old articles where Bloomberg actually mentioned "crimes against humanity" but that was some of the legal action Rockstar was threatened with. |
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the asylum
Shitgobbling pissdrinker
Join date: 2009-06-14
Age: 27
Location: O Canada
| | Subject: Re: Video Games are now Officially an Artform Thu May 12, 2011 12:17 am | |
| Elsewhere, Roger Ebert gnashes his teeth
....well, I'm sure he would. |
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