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**Wyborn** · 10-06-2006, 08:08 PM

I would post

But Prince Toad has it mostly covered.

There's a difference between saying somehting like "I practice my art every day", which might mean you go out and shovel crap for a living, and saying "I went and made some art today," which could mean you took said crap and turned it into something that means something.

The Art of War, again, is not an art in the sense you are thinking, it is a skill. Same word, two entirely different meanings.

That's why I said videogames are an "art form" (Ebert would argue they are not) and that not every single instance of them will be art. There is a difference.

And that brings up an interesting point - if all videogames are art (and by your definition they are), why bother complaining about things like WarioWare? They're sitll art, which means you have less room to call the game "bad" because it's meant to appeal to someone who's not you. I hate to do this, but...

But don't let me pointing this out draw your attention from my other points, and from PT's: you are willfully blending together two different meanigns of the word "art".

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Wyborn Zelda Mod Join Date: Jun 2000 Location: All over the place Gender: Posts: 12,326 Thanks: 86 Thanked 439 Times in 269 Posts Points: 17,651.94 Bank: 82,155.51 Total Points: 99,807.45 Donate	I would post But Prince Toad has it mostly covered. There's a difference between saying somehting like "I practice my art every day", which might mean you go out and shovel crap for a living, and saying "I went and made some art today," which could mean you took said crap and turned it into something that means something. The Art of War, again, is not an art in the sense you are thinking, it is a skill. Same word, two entirely different meanings. That's why I said videogames are an "art form" (Ebert would argue they are not) and that not every single instance of them will be art. There is a difference. And that brings up an interesting point - if all videogames are art (and by your definition they are), why bother complaining about things like WarioWare? They're sitll art, which means you have less room to call the game "bad" because it's meant to appeal to someone who's not you. I hate to do this, but... But don't let me pointing this out draw your attention from my other points, and from PT's: you are willfully blending together two different meanigns of the word "art".