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by icycalm » 21 Oct 2009 00:58
Da Gam Da Gee wrote:One time I had a particularly horrible match against a claw player (I was Blanka, and yes, you can laugh at my nubness). This guy said that I suck and this is why he doesn't have a 360, so he doesn't have to play with "the rabble" and that rich PS3 owners (which apparently he is) are the only skilled players (lol). Then he proceeded to challenge me to strip SFIV and told me that if I lost, I had to send pictures of my dick to him. Then he proceeded to ramble about philosophy and tell me about this Alex Kierkegaard chap over at insomnia.ac. I lol'd.
by icycalm » 25 Oct 2009 23:27
Simply the best by James Punshon Oct 09, 2009
Insomnia.ac is the absolute best video game website. The writing on the site is highly philosophical in nature which can be intimidating, but through persistent reading and studying you will learn not only the correct way to look at and study video games, but also how to think properly in general.
The quality of the site and its forums is largely due to the mammoth intellect and strict moderation of its owner and chief writer, "icycalm". This forum handle is something of a misnomer, as he is rarely ever calm. Indeed, he is enraged by the incompetence which permeates much of the writing on games. Justifiably so, as his website is the only one I have found which tackles games in such a vigorous, logical manner. Thus, if you have any interest in the proper discussion of video games, there is nowhere else to go.
by icycalm » 26 Oct 2009 19:05
by icycalm » 15 Nov 2009 22:59
shMerker wrote:Except the thing is, it isn't the New York Times. And maybe it's worth noting that the Times has a staff of editors whose job is to make sure that the articles meet a minimum standard of quality.
When you set up your website so that anyone with an opinion can post to it you are opening a net that collect everything. That includes people too immature and too ignorant to post anything useful. Note that both groups could become contributing members at some point, given enough time and education. In the meantime, they don't know that they're immature or ignorant. Those are the two things that immature, ignorant people never know about themselves. When you say "you must be at least this tall" to someone who doesn't have a measuring stick, there's a good chance he'll just walk in anyway. And while he's the one disobeying the sign and trespassing, you're the one who should've just locked the gate in the first place.
shMerker wrote:When you set up your website so that anyone with an opinion can post to it you are opening a net that collect everything. That includes people too immature and too ignorant to post anything useful. Note that both groups could become contributing members at some point, given enough time and education.
by icycalm » 18 Nov 2009 17:06
by icycalm » 23 Nov 2009 01:08
by icycalm » 26 Nov 2009 19:22
Remy wrote:"Some WoW players still seem to (incorrectly) equate complexity with depth"
I'm wondering what you mean by that.
Have a read of this: http://insomnia.ac/commentary/on_comple ... and_skill/
I'm actually writing a counter-piece right now as I don't entirely agree with it, be interested to hear other views.
by icycalm » 29 Dec 2009 21:28
by Confucius Rex » 02 Jan 2010 08:58
icycalm wrote:http://remod.cakearmy.org/viewtopic.php?f=5&p=232499 (I can't see this one because I don't have an account)
by icycalm » 22 Jan 2010 22:01
by icycalm » 25 Jan 2010 15:34
WanderingKnight wrote:Then you've heard most of what I have to say. Honestly there's not much to say about it, and I have a feeling it would end up going in circles. If you want to know more or less how I feel on the subject, you can probably read some of this guy's writing. The guy is a complete douchebag who gets a boner from reading Baudellaire and has an overblown ego and a sense of elitism that is hard to stomach, but if you look past behind that, he does raise some good points from time to time, and most of those points are similar to mine.
by Strifer » 25 Jan 2010 23:19
by icycalm » 14 Feb 2010 15:38
Shrugged, Atlas wrote:I just stumbled across his website. I remember seeing a few of his posts at actionbutton.net and I see a lot of familiar user-names on his site so I'm sure a lot of you are fully-aware of what kind of monster this person is. I'm positively blown away by the spectacle of it all.
He rules his website with an iron fist, demeaning anyone and everyone who comes across it. He critiques each little caveat he has with each post before insulting that poster before finally banning them. There's a subforum for submitting reviews, too. He'll tear your writing apart, insult you for wasting his time, insult you again for wasting his time rewriting your review so he can post it on his site, then ban you. I can't tell if the guy's serious or if he's another one of those post-postmodern master trolls. That little kid with toys avatar of his lends evidence to that - it's so fitting of his online persona. But I don't think that's the case. There's no humor here. This guy is really an egomaniac. This is extreme Comic Book Guy levels of delusion.
This man is the abyss the very Nietsche he parrots warned us about.
by icycalm » 14 Feb 2010 19:52
Shrugged, Atlas wrote:There's a subforum for submitting reviews, too. He'll tear your writing apart, insult you for wasting his time, insult you again for wasting his time rewriting your review so he can post it on his site, then ban you.
by NighAligned » 14 Feb 2010 19:59
Nietzsche wrote:Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And when you look long into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.
by icycalm » 14 Feb 2010 20:15
NighAligned wrote:The way I understand it, this aphorism doesn't apply to the vast majority of people reading it