Roger Ebert claims "video games cannot be art"; molests children.

[Meister]

Originally Posted by Fifthfiend

Depends how all right you are with getting punched back.

True artists suffer for their art.

[Fifthfiend]

If you ask him to hit you back it's a major motion picture.

Starring Meatloaf.

[DFM]

Originally Posted by Fifthfiend

If you ask him to hit you back it's a major motion picture.

Starring Meatloaf.

What if he hangs a sign up in front of a cardboard tunnel that says "The Punch You in the Face Tunnel." and then waits at the other end for people to go through.

[Fifthfiend]

Mesden. MESDEN.

Is American Idol art?

[Fifthfiend]

Answer:

Not this fucking season it ain't.

[Mesden]

Originally Posted by Fifthfiend

Answer:

Not this fucking season it ain't.

Adam was back for like one day and I was all "Where did this go I want the show that was good back." When the best person is someone who forgets the lyrics to a really popular Beatles song then well it's this.

[Fifthfiend]

because no one is claiming that a simple game such as chess, checkers, solitaire, poker, etc. is art.

I am totally claiming that chess is art, chess is art as fuck.

[Krylo]

Is Simon still on that show, because he can get pretty artistic sometimes.

Edit: No one except Fifthfiend is saying that simple games etc. etc. art blah blah blah.

[DFM]

No I agree chess seems pretty artsy.

[Fifthfiend]

For literally centuries chess has been the medium through which people have experienced revelations about themselves and others and the broader nature of humanity and interconnected human society, guided by a simple set of interactions nonetheless allowing for variations of infinite complexity.

That shit is art as hell.