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Unread postby icycalm » 01 Aug 2013 23:04

Ultimately, the question is not "What does Wikipedia think of Alex Kierkegaard's articles?" -- that is of no account -- but "What does Alex Kierkegaard think of Wikipedia's articles on games?" And what I think of them is that they suck balls. Even the ones in which I am (or was) referenced -- even the very references to me are for the most part stupid. They quote one thing I said (often misinterpreting it), but leave ten other, far more important things unquoted.

But the problem is certainly not restricted to the domain of game theory. Just look at the philosophy page:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy

Countless paragraphs on one charlatan after another, while Nietzsche barely gets a mention (half the page should be about him). It's laughable, but that's how subhumans make encyclopedias. Everything SIMPLE and EASILY QUANTIFIABLE in them is reliable enough. Everything COMPLICATED and HIGHLY ABSTRACT is a mess of basic misconceptions, sheer charlatanry and involuntary comedy.
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Unread postby icycalm » 01 Aug 2013 23:21

http://www.learntocounter.com/forums/in ... pic=5813.0

Surth wrote:Ladies and gentlemen, allow me to present Alex Paynegaard. The internet's finest, with the biggest artfagot bodycount ever. Dearest guests, prepare to die.

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"The artfagot-brigade was closing in. I could hear the sirens. Their wail was a crescendo."

"Collecting evidence had gotten old a few hundred bans back. I was already so far past the point-of-no-return I couldn't remember what it had looked like when I had passed it." -- on banning some random schmoe.

"The word was out. A deadly virus released into the Net's corrupt circulatory system. Something wicked this way comes. Alex Paynegaard at large." -- on the release of orgyofthewill.net

"He was trying to buy more sand for his hour glass. I wasn't selling any." -- on banning some random schmoe.

"Phil Fish turned out to be another cardboard cut-out indiebum. A retard on the take. A cowardly right-hand man fleeing from the scene, leaving his paid thugs to do his dirty work." -- on Phil Fish leaving games.

"In the century of the blind, the one-eyed man was king." -- on Jean Baudrillard.

"Hacking through Fish's computer would have unearthed files of terrible sprite-art, strategies for world domination, bungled code, atrocious concept art, Internet porno, all of the above. Take your pick, I really didn't care anymore. [Shoots the computer, breaking it] I had seen too much of it already." -- On hacking Phil Fish's computer.

"Like always, the dead had all the answers I was missing. It wasn't that they weren't eager to talk; quite the contrary, the dead had plenty to say and once they started, they would never shut up. Their words would keep you awake at night." -- on reading Nietzsche for the first time.

"One thing left to do. I was compelled to give Jesper Juul his theory back. One bungled idea at a time." -- on ripping Jesper Juul's theory a new one.



BUT ALEX PAYNEGAARDS JOURNEY INTO THE NIGHT WILL CONTINUE.



I want to see more of this Alex Paynegaard, including Alex Paynegaard 2: The Fall of Alex Paynegaard, and Alex Paynegaard 3: Alex Paynegaard Rises.
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Unread postby icycalm » 18 Aug 2013 07:27

It's amazing how much more mileage you can get out of stuff like this http://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=16752.0 when you are drunk. Every single post reads as if it came from an alternate dimension lol. Try it out.
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Unread postby ingolfr » 19 Aug 2013 16:33

I don't know what it is but Paul Eres' avatar infuriates me.
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Unread postby icycalm » 22 Aug 2013 07:41

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Unread postby icycalm » 17 Sep 2013 01:14

lol

http://www.learntocounter.com/forums/in ... 5#msg64165

Trar wrote:do you agree that this song is similar in tone and feel to reading zirbas

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpYpDPSyLJQ


But beyond the lols, it is instructive to note how the human voice sounds to subhumans. And this is how the subhuman voice sounds to humans:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTnwjqA-YWA
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Unread postby icycalm » 21 Oct 2013 20:22

https://archive.foolz.us/v/thread/214761896/#214762451

Anonymous wrote:The probability of a thread or post getting deleted is inversely proportional to its offensiveness/stupidity/general shittiness.

The fastest janitor action I've witnessed is an icycalm thread getting deleted in under 10 minutes, even though it was on-topic and broke no rules. But the daily copypasta troll spam gets left alone.
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Unread postby icycalm » 25 Oct 2013 15:41

https://twitter.com/Cassandramewn/statu ... 7235317760

Cassandramewn wrote:lmao an icycalm magic the gathering card now i've seen everything


It was apparently part of a custom "indie" deck, but apart from the following thumbnails I can't seem to get a hold of it:

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Kotaku broke the story but the site that hosted them is down:

http://kotaku.com/gabe-newell-ea-and-ko ... 1451224021

Luke Plunkett wrote:Gabe Newell, EA And...Kotaku Are Now Magic Card Characters

There's a custom Magic Card collection called The Indie Custom Cube. It features cards representing some of the world's most famous developers, companies, games and other assorted characters, including Gabe Newell, Notch, Electronic Arts, Phil Fish and Charles Barkley.

It is one of the most amazing things I have ever seen.

Seems it was playtested during GDC earlier this year, but has just been made available for everyone to try out. In other words, it's not just funny, it actually works.

Some of these, you might not get, as you may not be a struggling independent games developer. Others speak the universal language of lulz.

You can check 'em out (and print them out) at the link below.

Indie Custom Cube [Site, via IndieGames]
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Unread postby recoil » 25 Oct 2013 19:14

Found the icycalm card:
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No higher resolution to be found.

Rest of the cards can be found at these mirrors:
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Unread postby icycalm » 25 Oct 2013 22:50

The card description should just read, "GAME OVER, YOU WIN".
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Unread postby icycalm » 26 Oct 2013 16:07

http://www.reddit.com/r/gamedesign/comm ... ter_games/

CaptPic4rd wrote:He has four books, dozens of reviews, dozens of articles, and he has an eight year old website where hundreds of people pay 40 bucks a year to view his writing and hang out with him. He is not a troll. You have some unfathomable problem with his writing style, I can only assume because his existence threatens you; you were hoping to be the guy that tied game design theory together and now you're faced with a genius that has already done more than you will ever accomplish in the field. You can either man up and learn from him, and become a better person. Or go back under your rock with the other indie game designers and scribble your little writings and slap each other on the back for being so smart and pretend Kierkegaard doesn't exist.


And a thread on Neo-Arcadia on Arcade Culture: http://www.neo-arcadia.com/forum/viewto ... =5&t=40741

Haven't seen one of those in a while. Who else is getting their 7-year-old article linked in dedicated threads today? Does anyone remember another article from 2007 that's still worth linking to? (That I didn't write that is, lol.)
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Unread postby icycalm » 03 Nov 2013 19:50

Wells College:
http://athena.wells.edu:6080/special/us ... s/ARTH263/

Some college in New York I've never heard about. And they are using one of my minor essays too. On the other hand, if they used the Genealogy it would upstage the rest of their entire syllabus, but then again they'd LEARN more from it than they're going to learn from the rest of the syllabus.

At any rate, it's nice to be acknowledged, even in this minor, narrowminded fashion.


Edit: If anyone, by the way, can find anything in his syllabus besides my essay that's not bullshit, feel free to let me know. So far I haven't been able to.
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Unread postby icycalm » 29 Nov 2013 03:45

https://archive.foolz.us/v/thread/220091780/#220102979

Anonymous wrote:>>220095923
>someone please post "On the Genealogy of Art Games" by icycalm/Alex Kierkegaard/Anthony Zirbas/whomever
His best article ever written. Way more insight in each single word than in the entire Insert Credit video catalog.
http://insomnia.ac/commentary/on_the_ge ... art_games/


His best article "ever written". More insight "in each single word". The Insert Credit "video catalog".

I despise these aspies even more than the fags who hate me. If there were some way to prevent them from reading what I write, I'd implement it asap.
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Unread postby icycalm » 12 Dec 2013 08:22

https://archive.foolz.us/v/thread/222249228/#222254310

DJ Orwell wrote:>>222253975

In other words, Baudrillard is speaking of games without main menus and without pause screens; traditional games, pre-videogames. The main menus and pause screens are a form of compromise — the pause screen a compromise with interfering reality, the main menu a compromise between the player and the creator's definitive vision of how a game ought be played.


https://archive.foolz.us/v/thread/222249228/#222254984

DJ Orwell wrote:>>222254829

Baudrillard is dead, idiot.

Nonetheless more alive than you could ever be.


https://archive.foolz.us/v/thread/222249228/#222257675

DJ Orwell wrote:"The gamer thus plays for the charm of the game, its seductiveness, and as such embraces repeatedly the catastrophe of losing the game."

I love how a sociology professor is more of an eloquent and articulate hardcore gamer than any of the retards who spend their entire daily existences on /v/.

Most "gamers" today cannot fathom "embracing repeatedly the catastrophe of losing the game", and hence the profusion of credit-feeding and easier-than-easy modes.


That kid is improving.

Still, a lot of the rest is errors or mixed with errors, so I am not quoting anything else. His attitude is still grating though. Too self-righteous for one who keeps making so many errors. He doesn't have a RIGHT to these truths and this attitude, that's why he's so grating. His life, and his past attitude (he used to call me, Nietzsche and Baudrillard completely worthless), don't give him a RIGHT to them.

Above all, he still hasn't learned the supreme lesson, which is that I don't make mistakes.
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Unread postby icycalm » 21 Dec 2013 13:47

Cross-posting this from the philosophy forum [ > ], for obvious reasons. Maybe it will help a few dumb kids pull their heads out of their asses.

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http://fabiusmayland.blogspot.com.es/20 ... tions.html

Herr Surth wrote:A sketch of digital demonstrations through the lens of gift exchange.

[...] But first, we must theorize the concept of demonstrations and protests. How does a protest function, how does it 'work'? I will briefly outline a sketch of a theory of demonstration on the basis of gift exchange.

Protest and demonstration can be understood most easily through the concept of gift exchange in Bataille's anthropology, as appropriated by Baudrillard in Symbolic Exchange and Death1: Aristocracy – power –, it is argued therein, shows itself through expenditure, through waste, through excess. It must be noted that, while Symbolic Exchange and Death constructs most explicitly on the basis of Bataille, on the whole Nietzsche is a more sustained and permanent influence on the thought of Baudrillard; and indeed, traces of Nietzsche's thought can be found within this analysis of aristocracy – which Nietzsche sees as [...] (Albert Camus, a keen reader of Nietzsche, though much more of a moralist than either Baudrillard or Nietzsche, notes that the latter's concept of aristocracy is one of duty, not of privilege – i.e. one of giving, not of taking.)

Power, so says the hypothesis, shows itself through expenditure and waste. Expenditure and waste has to be seen as a sign – a sign that signifies identity. "I am the kind of person who can afford to be wasteful." Wasting money for a useless gadget points to the fact that one has so much more money to spend.

Protests and demonstrations, then, are never principally a demonstration for or against something – they are a demonstration of – of power. The demonstrating masses communicate an identity: "We are the kind of people who are willing to 'waste' our time [and, if the opposing regime uses violence, willing to waste our lives] here on the streets." This signifier, suspended invisibly in the air, is supposed to say that We have so much more time [so many more lives] to spend – violently if necessary. The masses signify that they are willing to 'storm the palace' without actually storming the palace. Give in, or else... One can, indeed, read the nuclear bombs dropped upon Japan during the Second World War in much of the same way, as Dr. Gerry Coulter has, noting that the Allied represented themselves as the greater evil.2 We are the kind of people who are willing to lay waste to your cities, the Allied signified. Surrender, or else...

The total and utter failure of most contemporary protests can now be dissected; it comes down to two simple reasons.

One, many demonstrations explicitly disavow violence, as e.g. the Occupy movement does, thereby removing any trace of the threat. The signifier is devoid of meaning, a free-floating sign. It is still there – the people are occupying the street – but that which is supposed to be signified – the possibility of action, of violence, the self-identification of someone who is willing to be violent – is stricken. "We are the ones who are willing to waste our time." Okay, then what? I am not saying that the Occupy movement should have been violent – but it certainly should have signified a willingness to be. Instead, there was no threat at all. Give in, or we will vote for Obama again? Who will feel threatened by that?

Two, an obvious point: Demonstrations within the digital simply are not wasteful enough. The price to pay for a digital protest is about two seconds of your time. Within the digital, then, the whole logic of the gift is rendered impossible. Buying you a DVD set for your birthday feels meaningful because it is implied that I spent money on it, that I wasted for you. Copying the data onto your computer results in no loss for me and hence doesn't feel as purposeful. (And therefore the mixtape, the personalized curation of art so as to say: I did not spend money on this music, but I did spend time handcrafting this selection.) But within the digital process, no time is consumed, and so the "efficiency" of a digitally-networked protest is paradoxically the cause of the protest's ineffectiveness.



1 See http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/baudrillard/#2


2 "Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster, and if you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you," then, does not mean that one should avoid battling monsters at all costs, but that one should first be willing to become the bigger monster.


This is a typical case of what happens when impressionable youths come in contact with philosophy -- in this case, with my writings. He wants to think like me, he wants to sound like me, he wants so much to feel what it feels like to be an awesome dude who solves world-historic problems, that he will go as far as to INVENT problems where there are none, and then proceed to "solve" them by randomly mixing and matching concepts he can barely even begin to understand. The article is unreadable garbage (not to speak of the style!) And of course it would be, since it is impossible to be a twenty-something university student who sits in his dorm room all day long and have something to say about anything that would be of any value to anyone. I did not begin to write philosophy until well in my THIRTIES, and by the time I was twenty I had already lived and experienced more than this kid will experience IN HIS ENTIRE LIFE. THAT'S why I am a philosopher and he's a nobody, not because I've read more books than him.

I already said this to Qpo recently in the Insomnia forum, and to the Ghetto moron a while back: there is no way forward for kids like this other than to turn off their computers and go out into the world. You can't become wise by reading. The thing is impossible. The only thing you can become by reading is a dumbass loser kid who sits home all day scribbling pseudo-intellectual screeds about "our desperate, futile search for meaning" while the rest of us are out in the world having a ton of fun. From the same blog:

http://fabiusmayland.blogspot.com.es/20 ... hemes.html

Herr Surth wrote:Short thought of the day: on themes

This misconception continues to puzzle me: that when talking about movies, or literature, or video games – Art, in short – a work is often said to deal with a certain theme or topic. But there is a difference between merely evoking or referencing a theme and actually dealing with, that is, having to say something about it. My issue, to be perfectly clear, is not with the word theme, but with potential verbs preceding it: For a work of Art to have, to possess a theme, it is enough to show, to reference. For a work of Art to deal with or to explore a theme, it needs to do more than that.

Of course, whether a work of Art needs to deal with – or even evoke – a certain theme in the first place, this is too rarely questioned. The joy of aesthetics, it seems, has been lost in our desperate, futile search for meaning.


In my 35 years on this planet I have not met a single lifeform, human or otherwise, who "desperately and futilely searched for meaning". I have barely known such people even in books! The only way to form a contrary view on this matter IS IF YOU NEVER LEAVE YOUR ROOM.

The kid wrote what seems like a decent Deus Ex 3 review and a couple of articles for Insomnia, he should be more than proud of himself for this accomplishment, and should stop wasting his time and making such a fool of himself by presuming to be an authority on subjects on which HE SHOULDN'T EVEN BE ALLOWED TO SPEAK.

And P.S., the second footnote in his first article is plagiarized from an upcoming chapter of Orgy of the Will. I posted that line somewhere in the Insomnia forum at some point, and that's where he picked it up from. "Congratulations" then on being the first to publish it. (But his interpretation of it is still rubbish.)
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Unread postby icycalm » 04 Jan 2014 22:33

culture.vg is now officially 81% safe. A proud day.

http://www.scamadviser.com/is-culture.v ... -site.html
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Praise for Insomnia

Unread postby icycalm » 29 Jan 2014 10:08

http://culture.vg/praise-for-insomnia.html

I added this to the page:

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread. ... st98384651

justjustin wrote:Sure, if this game is as ambitious and extreme as his videogame theory I'd love to play this game someday.

His videogame theory is very forward-thinking and broadened my understanding of them. It was in his writing that I first encountered the idea that all videogames are simulation-- virtual microcosms based on our mathematical understanding and observation of our world-- and that their primary purpose is not necessarily fun or challenge but immersion, which can happen any number of ways. Like any other art, videogames are abstractions of reality. Sounds like a versatile theory to me.

He's the guy on a crusade to tear down the wall between mechanics and aesthetics; "gameplay," story and graphics-- there's no real barrier between them. Even cutscenes and QTEs, the long-standing whipping boy of videogames, are not something to be vilified by their nature. Story or loss of interactivity does not necessarily detract from the experience. Graphics are inseparable from the mechanics they simulate. He theories in practice give every game the benefit of the doubt.

I don't know why some people think his ideas about videogames are narrow. They strike me as very open minded and are valuable to grasp if you like to think about the nature of videogames. His ideas about what makes a game art are liberating and practical; not entrenched in hidden meaning, budget, theme or artists' identities/authority.

Whether or not you disagree with these ideas, you'll have at least stretched your thinking and left your comfort zone to get where he's coming from. As with all extreme ideas, they take a great deal of empathy to comprehend. Consequently, his ideas are hard to take out of context.

It would be great if he could help develop a game that represents his fundamental ideas about games, and it doesn't surprise me that he lists Far Cry 2 and Deus Ex as influences.


He made one (rather serious) error which I corrected. See if you can spot it by comparing his original post with what I posted on Insomnia's page.

That page is my antidote to the massive wall of negativity that my every move unavoidably creates. A reminder to myself -- which I am very often in need of -- that some of what I am saying IS indeed getting through to someone out there, and that it would be foolish to take the negativity seriously and give up. Thanks, guys. You have no idea how much pleasure each and every one of your posts on that page has given me, and will continue to give me in the future.
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Unread postby icycalm » 01 Feb 2014 20:31

http://shmups.system11.org/viewtopic.ph ... 29#p986829

Teufel_in_Blau wrote:I will not white knight for him. Icy is using a replay from zakk in his Ketsui review. I still have it on my HDD because it is so awesome. Not a perfect 1cc but you could see how he fought during this run. Made me fall in love with Ketsui (thanks, zakk). Anyway, did you read the thread? He was attacked and laughed at from the very beginning. I think he really lost it when some people that he actually liked started making fun of him. I'm sorry, but all I see is somebody that got gangbanged and snapped.

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The Ketsui thing looks now out of place. I meant that he wouldn't have used his replay and upload it to his side if he didn't like zakk. I think he really liked this forum but he didn't got that out of it what he expected and went crazy. There was probably a lot more shit going on in his personal life too but whatever.


How little they understand of me. Or of basic logic, for that matter. Because I uploaded zakk's replay it means I liked zakk. Because I ate the chef's pastry it means I liked the chef.

How can you think like that and NOT end up a subhuman?

But for them it makes sense. Their petty resentments are more important to them than their life's goal, because their life has no goal. They just stumble through life day by day, with any of their given actions governed, not by a distant goal, but by shortsighted momentary desires and emotions.

Meanwhile half the content on my site not written by me is written by people I can't even stand. Because the future of criticism and theory is more important to me than childish tantrums and resentments. And that's why I have the best videogame and art criticism and theory publication in the world, whilst all you guys are a bunch of losers nobody knows about who spend your days scribbling multiple-page forum threads about me across the internet. Have fun with that then. I don't resent you for it because even that is helping me achieve my goals.
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Unread postby icycalm » 02 Feb 2014 21:50

All these years and they are still the same retards they used to be. They've learned absolutely nothing.

http://shmups.system11.org/viewtopic.ph ... &start=150

BareknuckleRoo wrote:And then Gus counterstopped & 1cc'd Futari Ultra on a non-tated CRT with a 360 pad.


ArrogantBastard wrote:MrMonkeyMan 2-ALL'ed Ketsui on Saturn pad and 14" CRT if I remember correctly.


Ruldra wrote:And Prometheus 2-ALL'ed DDP on a keyboard. However, they are all exceptions that prove the rule, of course :roll:

That's an incredibly convenient way to never be wrong about anything. Whenever you're proven wrong, just say it's the exception to the rule.


Here you can see once more that subhumans understand nothing of how science works, and still see it as a kind of magic.

ANYTHING THAT IS LESS THAN 50% IS AN EXCEPTION. EVEN IF YOU WERE ABLE TO SHOW THAT 49% OF PLAYERS WHO 1CC SHOOTERS CAN DO IT WITH A PAD OR A KEYBOARD, IT WOULD STILL BE AN EXCEPTION, AND THE RULE WOULD STILL BE THAT 51% OF THEM CANNOT DO IT WITHOUT A STICK. THE ONLY THING YOUR 3 MISERABLE EXAMPLES DEMONSTRATE IS THAT MY RULE IS CORRECT, OTHERWISE YOU WOULDN'T NEED TO GO OUT OF YOUR WAY TO FIND 3 EXCEPTIONS. IF MY RULE WERE INCORRECT THERE WOULD SIMPLY BE TOO MANY "EXCEPTIONS" FOR YOU TO NEED TO POINT ANY OF THEM OUT. YOU'D SIMPLY BE LAUGHING AT MY RULE, AS YOU'D LAUGH IF SOMEONE SAID "PIGS CAN FLY".

tl;dr playing shooters with a stick and a large tated display is far easier than with pads, keyboards or dancing mats, and anyone who says otherwise is a retarded subhuman.

This concept is so easy to grasp, and there's so little to say about it, that in all the years since I first talked about it I haven't sat down to write an article on it. There's simply nothing to write. You'd have to be an inbred Shmups.com fuckface to think that 3 gimps who can 1CC Ketsui with chopsticks proves anything about anything. All it proves is that they are gimps. The Guinness book of records is full of gimps throwing away their lives in accomplishing utterly retarded stunts, but no one goes around saying that these stunts prove anything beyond the fact that gimps will be gimps.

THE GUINNESS BOOK OF RECORDS ISN'T SCIENCE. IT'S A FREAK SHOW. A COLLECTION OF FUNNY EXCEPTIONS.

So try to remember this, subhumans. YOU NEED MORE THAN 50% "EXCEPTIONS" TO DISPROVE THE RULE. ANYTHING LESS THAN THAT AND YOU ARE MERELY HELPING TO PROVE IT.

Now go back to advising people to play shooters with a keyboard on an iPhone and wondering why your favorite genre is OMG DIEING!!1

To any humans reading this, for the definitive stance on this subject, read my posts in this thread:

http://shmups.system11.org/viewtopic.ph ... 65#p214565

icycalm wrote:
Ghegs wrote:SnapDragon, the guy who won the official US Ikaruga competition used a bog-standard GameCube pad. Boggles the mind, but it's proof that your controller is less important than how comfortable you are with it.


I think you have it the other way around. An exception doesn't prove that the rule is wrong -- it proves that it's correct. Perhaps SnapDragon should go into the Guinness Book of Records, along with all the other exceptions.


This is your forum admin. He thinks that "proof" is 1 person! And that thread is from 2007! You'd think he would have graduated from high school by now and learned how science works! But the sad truth is he's probably a 40-year-old who went through his country's educational system the same way he's going through life: without managing to understand a word of it.
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Unread postby icycalm » 04 Feb 2014 00:37

http://www.racketboy.com/forum/viewtopi ... 83#p843883

Valkyrie-Favor wrote:culture.vg organizes its latest content by category on the left, with a small column for moneymakers (books) on the right. Below that are pictures that just fill up space - games the writers are now playing, apparently. The real draw here is the top bar, emphasizing the timelessness, organization, and cohesion of icycalm's articles. Rather than reporting on random games past and present, he wants you to grok his approach to game criticism. There's even a "read.me" pull down menu indicating where to start before you peruse the rest of the site!


You can see the ressentiment in his labeling of my books as "moneymakers". What, am I seriously supposed to send out my books for free? And isn't the entire fucking site a "moneymaker" then, since you can't fucking read it without paying? Why not call every book on Amazon and every periodical at a newsstand a "moneymaker" then? And how stupid do you have to be to get into criticism or theory in order to make money? PLUMBERS make more money than critics or theorists make!

So, the slightest negative comment about book sales or subscriptions on the internet is a sure sign of ressentiment. Of poor bastards who spend all their time in their bedrooms on the internet, and who are resentful of anyone who is actually creating something useful online, and is therefore perfectly justified to demand compensation for it.

The moral of the story is: don't be a resentful bastard. Turn off your computer and leave your room. Then you might actually discover how the real world operates, and perhaps manage to find some better place within it than that of "resentful little parasite".
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Unread postby icycalm » 04 Feb 2014 06:01

Three of the recent large Insomnia-related threads have already been locked, apparently because they made the site owners uncomfortable:

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=757442
http://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=38341.0
http://www.giantbomb.com/forums/general ... m-1470454/

The TIGS thread had even been made to disappear for a while, and the last pro-Insomnia user to post in it had been banned, but they reinstated the thread and the user, just before posting their last words in it and locking it (so that said user would not get a chance to reply). Another user was banned, and apparently for good, from the NeoGAF thread.

Meanwhile open threads remain on Shmups.com [ > ], RPG Codex [ > ] and Caltrops [ > ], and I expect the Shmups.com one to be locked too fairly soon. The other two will probably remain open because no one is posting in them anymore.

Please note that all the owners of these sites, and all the users who post in them, are proponents of "free speech". From which fact a wise man will no doubt one day come up with a pretty interesting definition of what subhumans mean by "free".
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Unread postby icycalm » 04 Feb 2014 17:35

http://shmups.system11.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=48988

Watching zinger post in that thread is like watching a man carefully tiptoe his way around a pack of starving dogs. If he had had a lower post count or a less respected reputation on the forum, he'd already been banned. The dogs are hungry for his blood though, and the moment he takes a wrong step or they sense weakness they will fall on him and tear him apart with no remorse.

The trick is to give them no excuse to attack. That's the purpose of their insolent behavior and constant trolling: to bait you into giving them that excuse. If he so much as responds in kind to even ONE of their absurdly dismissive posts or insults, it's game over. And that's why I could never hold an account in any forum for too long. It is impossible for me, not merely to avoid replying in kind, but to avoid returning their insolence with interest.

At any rate, he will never manage to convince anyone posting in that thread, for they do not understand a word they are reading. That's what it means to not be human. Gaijin Punch even asked for someone to explain to him what is the point of thinking. The only ones he's helping are those who are reading the thread but NOT posting in it. If any of those have managed so far to avoid being exposed to my essays, they'll have at least a chance to do so by checking out the links he is providing. All the rest are a lost cause, and have been so since before they were even born (bad parent genes).
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Unread postby icycalm » 04 Feb 2014 20:31

icycalm making a rare appearance outside of culture.vg:

http://www.gamengai.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=3155

Might help some people understand why I've been banned from everywhere. Because I can't stand retards.
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Unread postby icycalm » 04 Feb 2014 23:51

Always fun when some nameless retard on some forum tries to give me writing advice. Here is another one who thinks that the paragraph should shape the thought instead of the other way around:

http://shmups.system11.org/viewtopic.ph ... 81#p987981

DMC wrote:Simple advice to any writer: Temporarily shift to times new roman font, 12pts, double space, regular margins. If a paragraph exceeds a full page it is probably too long and should be shortened. Icycalms' are 3 pages.


If my paragraphs are three pages long it's because my thoughts are three pages long. That's what the paragraph is supposed to represent: a complete thought. I guess the aspie's going to come up with a formula next for when James Joyce should have used periods.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longest_English_sentence
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Unread postby icycalm » 05 Feb 2014 23:05

http://shmups.system11.org/viewtopic.ph ... 77#p988377

austere wrote:I really wish he'd stop being an asshole


Your repeated assertion that I am an asshole shows how little of philosophy you have understood. Baudrillard, Nietzsche, Schopenhauer and co. would not even stop to think for a second before declaring EVERYONE ELSE an asshole and me a saint. You make little quips all over the place (as you did on TIGS ages ago) that make it seem like you understand everything, but all you are doing, time and again, is proving how small you are.

Only a small man thinks the great ones are "assholes". There's no room for doubt here. No amount of reading the books I recommend will ever change this fact.

The truth here is that some petty resentment is at the bottom of your entire behavior, as it is with the behavior of every single one of the morons on Shmups. I deactivated your account because you started two threads back-to-back one of which was a duplicate and the other of which was two sentences and a broken link. You didn't even take a second to reread your posts, and just left it up to me to do the editing, so I deactivated your account because I have better things to do with my time than follow you around in order to fix your careless posts.

This is the truth of the matter, and from that day on you began thinking of me as an "asshole".

And KAI began thinking of me as an asshole when I banned him because he was a Latin American moron who couldn't scribble a single sentence without making half a dozen grammatical and syntactical errors.

And Udderdude sent me a fanmail which I ignored because I was too busy, and then registered an account to PM me the fanmail again, and then I banned him for some reason I don't even remember.

And Derek Yu was my biggest fan on selectbutton, but when I reviewed his shitty game and gave it the shitty score it deserved, he started thinking of me as an asshole too.

As for the rest of the Shmups morons, half of them have been banned from here, and the other half are butthurt from some review or article in which I slam their shit taste and poor understanding of the artform and the world. And then on top of that all of them are butthurt because they'd love to read my site but can't anymore after I put up the paywall, without losing face and ponying up the cash.

THAT'S what's at the bottom of my "asshole" reputation -- RESSENTIMENT -- and if you had understood in any depth any of the philosophy I've recommended that you read, you'd see it clear as day.

But you haven't, and so you don't, and so for you too I will remain "an asshole" forever, because I refuse to stop calling a spade a spade and a resentful subhuman a resentful subhuman, and the world will keep turning, and all you morons and your works and actions will be growing smaller and smaller day after day, while my influence will be continually growing, and making you increasingly resentful as a result.

So not only will I never stop being an asshole for you, but as time goes on I'll increasingly become an even bigger asshole, until my ass has become so big that a single fart will be all it takes to gas all of you resentful morons to extinction, dog turds to dog turds, dust to dust, Amen.
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