by icycalm » 21 Feb 2012 22:03
Didn't come online in the past couple of days, and now Recap's forum seems to be offline. Did anyone check what absurd pseudo-arguments he vomited in response to my latest posts? Part of me kind of wishes his forum will stay offline, and perhaps that his entire site might somehow disappear too so that I can forget I ever knew of or had anything to do with him. I finally completely psychoanalyzed him too, a little earlier today while shaving, and I've grown thoroughly disgusted with him. Would never have imagined that such a person existed, not in a million years. Basically, if the artfags are men-children who aspire to be adults, and try to appear to be so by miming and ludicrously aping them, Recap is a child who has not only decided to stay a child for the rest of his life, but who downright HATES adults and the entire adult world, and would love nothing more than to see it, and them, VANISH FROM EXISTENCE. Proof: he never talks about anything other than games, and when outside subjects are raised either ignores them, or quickly dismisses them as irrelevant and uninteresting. He actually told me once that he didn't like seeing philosophical essays on my site (the most valuable part of it!), and probably gets annoyed on simply seeing their very titles (there's no question of him having ACTUALLY READ ANY OF THEM, or even so much as SKIMMING them). In a discussion on Arcana Heart, a game which, as far as games featuring all-female casts go, is as innocent and chaste as they come, since all the girls are practically dressed like nuns, and only a single one has big boobs, and that one is A FUCKING ROBOT, he went as far as to say that the designers' sexual intent (which he hallucinated) was "disgusting". Now, assuming there even was such an intent at all, how the fuck can someone say that sexuality is "disgusting" if he doesn't hate mankind, and especially adults and adulthood? And then another time he gave me the classic pseudo-intellectual line that all movies today are shit and he doesn't enjoy watching any of them, or something along those lines. So he has effectively negated
1. Sexuality
2. Art
3. Philosophy
and I mean what else is there in life, apart from physical activity, which is of course the most important, but which apart from clicking the keys on his keyboard and twiddling his arcade sticks he clearly knows nothing about. And don't give me that shit about him being 36 years old and an architect or whatever -- even if I was presented with detailed surveillance evidence by the goddamn CIA, that Recap is married with six children and leads a very active, healthy, modern lifestyle, I WOULDN'T FUCKING BELIEVE A WORD OF IT. The STENCH from his bedroom is evident in every fucking word he's written outside of comparing 2D Japanese videogames between themselves.
So, in a way, he's even more sick than the artfags and pseudo-intellectuals. Because they, at least, ASPIRE after adulthood, so they obviously value and respect it, even though they are utterly incapable of attaining it. For Recap, on the other hand, there's no question of respect or aspiration: he downright HATES adults and everything that has to do with the adult world, and all his efforts, apart from whatever minimum amount of drudgery he has to endure in his professional life, if he even has any, are directed at immersing himself as much as possible in the little 2D cardboard cutout universes he loved as a child. The man is SICK, clinically sick, and requires professional attention. I mean, having understood that, it is even a bit cruel of me to goad him any further, or even to post all these things I am posting here, which he is bound to read at one point or another.
On the other hand, however, loons like him are experts at rationalizing away everyone else's behavior, so that their positions inside their pathetic little make-believe worlds will remain unaltered, no matter what others say or do to them, so I am not really concerned about him. I think it's much more important to analyze their behavior for the benefit of science and the instruction of future generations, which is what I just did here.
And I mean, at the end of the day, from a pure art theory and art criticism perspective, if we perhaps view Recap's stunting of himself as a worthwhile sacrifice for the benefit of art criticism and theory, the results are rather wretched. I mean, all this stunting, and my arcade culture essay is still 1,000 times better than his, or any of the other articles in which we touch on the same subjects. Even in the games in which he specializes, my reviews already are, or will be once I've written all of them, vastly superior to his. He couldn't reproduce the ideas of a single paragraph of my Kick Off essay if he spent the rest of his life trying, for example, not to mention the Street Fighter II, Super Shinobi, Super Mario World, Super Mario Kart, Zelda, Samurai Spirits, Giga Wing, etc. reviews that are coming. As for the more obscure games, it is true that given my huge range of interests I'd never get around to trying the majority of them, let alone review them, so there, indeed, is where his true usefulness lies. But people like Josh, zinger, Macaw et al. have explored and are still exploring many of these games, without stunting themselves to such a degree in the process. And then you have people like, say, Gaijin Punch, who more or less prefer the same kinds of games Recap prefers, but who don't go out of their way to SLANDER all other games the moment they are so much as spoken of in their presence. GP is a good-natured, if a little slow Texan who, if asked his opinion of modern 3D stuff will probably reply with something along the lines of "they are not my thing" or "they lack the spirit or soul of older games", or some such other basically stupid pseudo-intellectual line, but which is however far less harmful than Recap's downright MALIGNANT manufacturing of absurd pseudo-arguments for slandering everything that exists beyond his poster- and plastic-toy-stuffed bedroom.
Anyway, if he suffers so much from the adult world, the VERY LAST thing he needs is an internet connection. If nothing can be done for him in terms of medical attention, the least his parents could do for him, if they are still around, is cut out his internet and lock him inside his little room with all his TV toys, so that he can spend the rest of whatever years he has left in relative peace and happiness, and cease smearing his malignant lies and slander over any expression of power and joy of the adult human world.
Of course the good thing is that no one besides me pays or has ever paid any attention to him, so even if he stays on the internet he won't be harming anyone besides himself. And we'll get a few extra decent reviews of obscure Japanese 2D games to boot... So perhaps things are just fine as they are, I guess lol.
But in any case there you have Recap's psychoanalytic profile, stamped and certified by the world's greatest living psychoanalyst. An extremely unique case indeed!
