Okay -_- That's quite enough for the DS...

The Imagine series was bad enough. Now a German developer is making this...

http://www.destructoid.com/elephant//ul/39837-datingday.jpg
"Daedalic Entertainment will be revealing their Nintendo DS project, Dating Day, at this year's Games Convention. The title, aimed at girls aged eight through 14, focuses on the all-important first date, which plays out as a series of mini-games. Players will woo the boy of their dreams by designing their own avatar, featuring the latest fashions, like fishnet stockings and keds."

It's more than a year from release.

X_X Finally - A coherent summation of Bioshock I can understand

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Since I've Been Asked It A Bit - My Thoughts on Art

My personal definition of art does not include most forms of writing and very few films.
To be art, something must be crafted for the sheer creative impulse of it. Once that is sold as a product to someone else or reproduced for others then it takes on another form, an artistic product. In this sense there can be artistic works of all kinds, books with beautiful aspects, games with thoughtful, evocative themes but ultimately. They are not art. This would encompass films as well by the way. Art direction would play a part in a film but a film is not in turn "art".

A child sketching landscapes and people on a sidewalk in chalk would be considered art by me. Stuff that is created for a human expression is art. Now this could encompass group visions like the work of constructing a particular building in some cases but this territory would be a bit hazier. But I want to recognize group effort creativity.

What I have in mind in particular includes some of the creative, non-art which came out after WW2 and is just chaos, disruption and total destruction of form. A human reaction to terrible lost and a breaking down of old systems. That would be art to me, same as any work which was just done for the creative impulse. Early-stage works would be art, like an indie filmmaker creating stories with a family camera and his brothers. That's a creative impulse.

Oh here comes the whiners...

"Wah wah! Bioshock isn't true widescreen! Why should people who play it on a standard def screen which is 4:3 get a better experience than ME! I'm L33Ter! I gots a 50 inch 1080p uber plasma tv my mom bought me! WAH WAH!"
(seriously, that's a paraphrase of a comment I saw. 'Why do people with standard definition screens get a better experience?')
Fuck the whiners!

@_@ Wow...I gotta give this video kudos.

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/editorials/zeropunctuation/1368-Zero-Punctuation-Psychonauts

Despite the fact I needed to update Flash and use an IE tab renderer to see it....this is so worth it. All about Psychonauts in the funniest way possible.

(Note, most should be able to run it on Firefox, I just have mine set a certain way that it's tougher for me)

One last gaming note...

Combat Ponies with Grenades? @_@...^^ Take that "My Little Pony" *BOOM!*

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v340/Majorkerina/operation_vietnam_ponies.jpg

Ugh...I feel really sick, I think I may go to bed early X_X I dunno...

I'll open up Mecchen House and see if I can salvage tonight...but I feel like a warmed-over corpse right now *spews the TG-virus*