This dude registered here and I just approved
his account, so before he gets a chance to post anything, in the hopes of avoiding any ugly exchange followed by yet another banning, let me just retract my "trailer trash" comments. For what it's worth, from my casual perusal of his site he
does appear to be better than most other videogame bloggers I've come across. The very fact that he recommends my essays already says a great deal about his intelligence, after all. My reaction to him should become more understandable when one considers what he had to say about me:
evizaer wrote:The problem is that he writes as if he doesn’t want to be read. He insults his opponents and spends so much time telling you how smart and exceptional he is that you are forced to doubt it. His style and tone lead to most readers dismissing his writing. Neither he nor his ideas should be dismissed, but Alex insists on testing everyone’s patience. He’s saying some important stuff about gaming; he does himself a disservice by splattering insults and self-congratulation throughout his otherwise fascinating writing.
That he ends by calling my writing fascinating does nothing to change the fact that the rest of the paragraph is filled with the typical trailer trash notions and misunderstandings.
evizaer wrote:The problem is that he writes as if he doesn’t want to be read. [...] His style and tone lead to most readers dismissing his writing.
http://forum.insomnia.ac/viewtopic.php?p=8865#8865The Nietzsche quote, half-way down.
evizaer wrote:He insults his opponents and spends so much time telling you how smart and exceptional he is that you are forced to doubt it.
I guess you would also doubt Schopenhauer's and Nietzsche's intelligence then, lol. Nietzsche wrote AN ENTIRE BOOK celebrating his intelligence and denigrating the stupidity and wretchedness of his opponents (he called them "blood-sucking vampires" and "little abortions of bigots" and celebrated himself as "the most terrible human being that has ever existed"). And that is by far his most powerful, most enjoyable, and yes,
most fascinating piece of writing.
evizaer wrote:Neither he nor his ideas should be dismissed, but Alex insists on testing everyone’s patience.
On testing
the trailer trash's patience -- intelligent people
cannot get enough of me. They go as far as to scour my forums for the most insignificant piece of chatter I decide to write down. Then they link it on other forums and discuss it for a dozen pages at a time.
evizaer wrote:He’s saying some important stuff about gaming; he does himself a disservice by splattering insults and self-congratulation throughout his otherwise fascinating writing.
Insults towards my opponents and self-congratulation are
at the center of my philosophical project. All arguments are at bottom
ad hominem arguments, as I will one day get around to explaining -- I am just being honest about it.
But what would people raised on journalism would
even know about honesty?