Somehow my carefully-crafted reply disappeared from my tabs just before I send it. Screw you, Gods of the Forums.
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Originally Posted by Prestidigitweeze
That sense of something in the air is a valid one, especially when we're young and have a (sometimes temporary) ability to intuit trends and innovations -- possibly because we're undistracted by the trajectory of our lengthy pasts.
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I gotta say that I only recently got into that whole book meta-thought business, and I'm still easily distracted (and excited) by any and all innovations and possibilities ("oooh shinyyy").
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Originally Posted by Prestidigitweeze
However, the writers I know are always saying things like that. The only ones who don't (in my personal experience) tend to be established science fiction writers.
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I don't know what to make of that. Is it because they're already blasé about that whole "the X of tomorrow" concept?
(Frankly I've only talked to the one french science fiction writer that one could call "established" - we don't have many of those strange beasts around here
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Originally Posted by Prestidigitweeze
Any art that leaves out sensory input depends on you to fill it in. Fiction's drawback is also its virtue: it leaves out all of that input in the most direct fashion. We spent the past three decades moving away from leaving things out, only to discover that a segment of our culture longs for the exercise.
This is not meant to belittle any other art form or medium. Every art is reductive in a sense, and threads the dissonances of its silence with our minds' coherence.
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Well that was quite well-put.
(that makes me wanna work hard on my english writing skillz, I feel so inadequate)
I love it when walls-of-text are exchanged for ages only to realize in the end that we agreed in the first place.
I guess I just bristle very easily when arguments stray in that area, because the (true and objective) point you just made is usually coupled with a judgement of value that amounts to "images are for dumbasses therefore books are BETTAR", which is a logical fallacy on so many levels it boggles the mind.
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I'll leave you to it, since that comment couldn't possibly be directed at me. You're addressing an argument I've never made in my life.
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Yeah there's a couple of quotes and points in there that were from someone else. I should have put a divider between the two or something.
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[lots of awesome stuff about video games]
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Pity that, since I could talk about this all day.
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You know what, screw books, let's just talk about video games
