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Comment: Re:Is it me or is he sounding more desperate? (Score 1) 733

by Viredae on Wednesday April 21, 2010 @12:25AM (#31918920) Attached to: Roger Ebert On Why Video Games Can Never Be Art

Would you concede that a chess set itself can be a work of art, whether or not it is actually played?
Ebert: Yes. But why is that a concession?

This is a comment from the article page where Ebert replied himself, I literally facepalmed in the middle of the office as I read it. This has gone beyond ridiculous, I'm even half convinced that Ebert knows and believes that Videogames are art, and he's just pranking us now.

Comment: And yet... (Score 1) 251

by Viredae on Wednesday March 17, 2010 @07:02AM (#31506814) Attached to: The Problems With Video Game Voice Acting

It doesn't explain why JAPANESE voice acting trounces its English-speaking counterpart so easily, maybe the English VAs are hacks? Proof of that is Atlus and the Persona VAs, they're actually good, aren't they following the same "awful" system?