Poetry For The Gaming Crowd Reviewed 27
Thanks to Game Girl Advance for their review of the videogame-related poetry book, 'Blue Wizard Is About To Die'. The reviewer comments: "Video games, the interactive art of corresponding actions to on screen visuals and audio cues, are inherently difficult to show. But who'd have thought that it'd be a poet from Las Vegas to finally get the feeling that goes along with video games right?" We've previously mentioned this unique book, which has an official website proclaiming that the tome "takes its readers on a psychotic and hilarious tour through the arcade and console games of the Eighties (and beyond)", and has garnered both effusive and not quite so positive reviews along the way.
Re:That's good but... (Score:1)
Re:That's good but... (Score:1)
To quote my best friend "He sticks his lovetool in her honeypot!"
See, that's sickeningly poetic. (or Pornish, if you want to call it that)
A video game haiku (Score:5, Funny)
A head shot, unexpected
Damn you, camping fag
Re:A video game haiku (Score:2)
Unfortunately, your haiku has the un-gamer like qualities of being both spelled properly and grammatically correct. A more accurate representation would be:
Rounding da corner
A head shot, UNPOSSIBLE!
Dam camping fagot!
Re:A video game haiku (Score:1)
You're right that good spelling disqualifies the haiku as gaming fare. I'll have to try to be more l33t. This one goes out to all my Enemy Territory homies gettin' camped at the Railgun:
4rtY s7R|K3 t3h 5P4w|\|
A><i5 B17C|-|3z c4N7 d0 5H1T
OmG, pWnZ0r3d
So I read some of the excerpts on the webpage... (Score:2, Interesting)
Those were some truly terrible poems.
Like, they did not scan with interesting rhythm, they did not offer enlightening insights into the nature of being, or even into the nature of the games, and they were, at several points, slightly offensive.
The fact that so many gaming sites seem to be head over heels from them really heightens the lack of geekiness I sometimes feel from being a humanities person.
Oh well. I have a girlfriend, and I bet he doesn't.
I'd recommend buying the book (Score:3, Funny)
I had the misfortune to start reading the sample Joust "poem" [twhi.org] and I'm still recovering.
Oh for fucks sake....
Re:So I read some of the excerpts on the webpage.. (Score:2, Insightful)
That said, there are a lot of people who don't understand the point of poetry. One of them wrote this book.
Re:So I read some of the excerpts on the webpage.. (Score:1)
Hmmm.. (Score:2)
Not that I'm pissed; I've got it on preorder from Amazon as we speak :)
Quake Haiku's (Score:1)
Re:Quake Haiku's (Score:1)
So... (Score:3, Insightful)
So...
my attempt (Score:1)
An NES Haiku (Score:2, Funny)
I jimmy the cartridge and hope
The damn thing will play
Re:An NES Haiku (Score:2)
to clean it on occasion;
I don't have that problem
If we all keep it up we'll have our own book (Score:1)
Suffering bit-rot. What now?
FCE Ultra.
I gave up, myself (Score:2)
Re:I gave up, myself (Score:1)
You know.... (Score:2)
I was playing "Star Trek" and "Zelda".
A very odd video game meld, ah.
As I aimed the hook-shot at Ganondorf.
I turned and said "Now, fire your cannon, Worf!"
Where is Diablo? (Score:1)
I can see what you see not
Vision milky then eyes rot
Then you see what cannot be,
shadows move where light should be.
Out of darkness,
out of mind.
Cast down from the Halls of the Blind.
(yup, I don't know if this come from something else, but *it is* in Diablo)
Rythm and Rhyme : (Score:2)
Perhaps I'm an uncultured dolt, but these "poems" look like someone just took a bunch of bad prose and randomly inserted carriage returns.
No rhyme. No rhythm. And definitely no music.
'emoto-versatronic expressionist pieces'... (Score:2)
I'm getting sick and tired of vacuous arts students plundering gaming's past in the most superficial and obvious ways possible. Attention: the 'witty' observations about the four NES games that were the last games you ever played have already occured to others. Please do not quote the Pac-Man quote again.
Perhaps one day someone will clue them in to the fact that constantly expounding a hopelessly limited and dated perception of games doesn't send out the message that they intend...