tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8972120889629675714.post4931272716497858126..comments2024-02-25T05:24:24.948-05:00Comments on Beyond Easy: May Day MonkeymindPatrick Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02410016566636603639noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8972120889629675714.post-13327286297136085522014-06-06T01:36:07.383-04:002014-06-06T01:36:07.383-04:00Hah, thanks for sticking around. And sorry: for th...Hah, thanks for sticking around. And sorry: for the foreseeable future, I'm done writing about video games. Who knows—maybe I'll fall back in love with them again someday?<br /><br />...I'm not sure how to feel about that link, by the way. "I really like the stuff you wrote, but <i>everyone else</i> thinks it's crap!" Jeez, NeoGAF is a tough crowd.Patrick Rhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02410016566636603639noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8972120889629675714.post-32031670383043220702014-06-06T01:10:21.020-04:002014-06-06T01:10:21.020-04:00I'm not sure I entirely agree with that. I mea...I'm not sure I entirely agree with that. I mean, I'm not ready to argue about the existence of <i>objective</i> worth or assert the inequivalence of such a quantity between the activities of looking at the river and playing Mega Man 2. But for myself, I am coming to rate the value of the former much higher than the value of the latter. Individual circumstances may vary, though! Patrick Rhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02410016566636603639noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8972120889629675714.post-56112371268332851362014-06-04T12:31:33.233-04:002014-06-04T12:31:33.233-04:00I like how topical that Radiohead song is. "H...I like how topical that Radiohead song is. "He buzzes like a fridge/He's like a detuned radio", shalala.<br /><br />I might add how much I miss your buzzing and hissing about interactive entertainment automatons. Between you losing interest and magweasel.com being swallowed whole by a SuperGrafx, everyone left to write about this subject just seems so <i>dull</i>.<br /><br />(I also might add that I had a chuckle when I found out this <a href="www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?p=14960409" rel="nofollow">isn't a very widely held opinion</a>.)<br /><br />EDIT: Now with 100% more hyperlinkery, because I'm an idiot.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04405937687602178806noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8972120889629675714.post-27706492406762957452014-06-04T03:35:13.070-04:002014-06-04T03:35:13.070-04:00Haha, fair enough. I found I couldn't really r...Haha, fair enough. I found I couldn't really replay A Link To The Past without marring its memory because now it seemed boring. However, that was just an example. My point is that whatever captures your mind at any given point, independently from its naturalness or artificiality will always seem important enough to sacrifice any other distracting thought. Not trying to dismiss the relevance of your rushing waters moment, but rather, a reminder that what made that moment special was your state of mind and not some inherent objective worth of the subject of your admiration.Maokunhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15459710218366288832noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8972120889629675714.post-46420061591008487032014-06-03T15:37:48.820-04:002014-06-03T15:37:48.820-04:00Thanks, but you give me far too much credit,Thanks, but you give me far too much credit,Patrick Rhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02410016566636603639noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8972120889629675714.post-48728969151820855842014-06-03T15:37:17.910-04:002014-06-03T15:37:17.910-04:00On the first point: true, but I was looking for a ...On the first point: true, but I was looking for a word denoting the sound rather than slipping it in as a connotation of a visual sensation.<br /><br />On the second: I rather doubt it. I've tried replaying Mega Man 2 five times in about as many years, and I never even make it to Wily's Fortress before I get bored and quit. I'm pretty sure I'm over it.Patrick Rhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02410016566636603639noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8972120889629675714.post-39070946699890344772014-06-03T15:34:58.180-04:002014-06-03T15:34:58.180-04:00Mizu no oto works, yeah. But it's interesting ...Mizu no oto works, yeah. But it's interesting (though not surprising) that our language has so many more words referring to specific visual or tactile sensations than auditory or olfactory ones.Patrick Rhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02410016566636603639noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8972120889629675714.post-16529844311076293762014-05-28T01:33:09.997-04:002014-05-28T01:33:09.997-04:00Here's the paradox: even if there was a dandy ...Here's the paradox: even if there was a dandy English word for the sound of water, those three paragraphs about its non-existence show off the river a thousand times clearer than any single word could.Jon B.https://www.blogger.com/profile/02032846652504184776noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8972120889629675714.post-79825421284005792602014-05-26T21:50:25.850-04:002014-05-26T21:50:25.850-04:00I'm pretty sure the word is rushing. Your argu...I'm pretty sure the word is rushing. Your argument to dismiss it would dismiss several other sound-naming adjectives that also describe the movement that causes them.<br /><br />Nevertheless, let me present you with a challenge to your wistful melancholy: Consider the possibility that a genie had appeared at that moment and granted you your wish of 5 minutes of rushing water communion in exchange for all the memories that were demanding your attention, and that you were so ready to banish from this timeline. Do you think this granted wish would have sated your mind and spirit (to give the feeling that birthed such desire a word) in the same lasting ways that all the things that you lost in exchange? Would the memory of it never tire you and always please whenever you wanted to summon the joys of the past? Can you explain how such exchange would be objectively more defensible and ethically superior to the unwitting trades you've made many times to acquire those intellectually and/or emotionally stimulating constructs at the cost of going outside and experiencing natural wonders such as these rushing waters? <br /><br />Nay, I say, for if rushing waters in your mind had distracted you from the precise sequence of button-presses required to defeat Crash Man, you would have cursed and wished for every spring and river to dry and their sound to be forever quieted if only you could reach the hoped joy of victory, so close at hand and to which those sounds constituted an obstacle.Maokunhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15459710218366288832noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8972120889629675714.post-37133417812950837452014-05-25T22:33:58.990-04:002014-05-25T22:33:58.990-04:00Funny, I had the same problem today, the one with ...Funny, I had the same problem today, the one with rivers and words, I mean. I had to describe it to someone and I just went with "the sound of the river". It seemed to do the trick even if it's not very poetic.Paul Chttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04080407233499755600noreply@blogger.com