[quote name='MarioColbert']Since CMJ is by design aimed at Computer Scientists and Computer Music Theorists/Practitioners, it's by definition NOT a family-friendly publication. It's a Computer Music publication, and it claims to be so in the name.
Zelda is a video game, and it is meant to entertain. However, I would argue that it aims to entertain fans of the genre and fans of the franchise, and is not one of Nintendo's "titles for everyone" catalog. Family-Friendly entertainment as defined by Reggie Fils-Aime (and I should have been clearer as to that particular definition) implies titles that are intended for everyone's joy and are "universal" in design, with practical limitations of the term. By my "definition" Wii Sports is one of many family-oriented titles, which I believe takes care of that "nothing" accusation.
To emphasize my point, Computer Music Journal is more than likely to offend people with regard to their interpretation and definition of the word
music. That is, if they thought about the actual content, and did not judge it by absense of profanity. Considering that you don't see it as a publication that caters to adults by design, I sincerely doubt your ability to judge video games, and whether or not they cater to kids or adults (and I don't mean just you, dallow, I pretty much reserve this one for most subscribers to "immature Wii games" doctrine). It seems that the only thing that makes things "adult" in your book is emphasis on a very particular brand of "offensive" content: violence, nudity, and profanity. By such a standard, you would draw some sort of a bullshit line between Nietzsche's
Thus Spoke Zarathustra and Heidegger's
Being and Time, since it's up to "dallow" to figure out which concepts are "too dark" for Family values and which are "good enough." (Hint: Thanksgiving dinner is a FAMILY FRIENDLY event.)
I think what you're trying to say is that The Legend of Zelda is done with
good taste and
class, and doesn't deal with things that make GTA a scandalous title. And by that measure, Computer Music Journal is definitely a publication of class and taste as well, with quality control for the articles within that match the quality control of Zelda titles. Neither, however, is written and published for the sake of family-centered entertainment.
Oh, and before some more of you start munching on my nuts, the phrases "good taste" and "class" are loaded on purpose, which is why they are in italics above. Pointing that out will do nothing more of winning you "Dipshit Sherlock" award. And I'm sorry about the article THE in Notes from Underground. I've only read that in my native Russian tongue. Tak chto, blya, pinay otsyuda so svoyey huynyoi o tom chto Russkaya kultura tebe ne nuzhna chtobi Dostoevskogo ponyat'.[/quote]
You didn't have to write so much to be so wrong.
CMJ is family friendly, and that's that. Does it
hurt you to see me write that?
Nothing in CMJ will offend my family. We can open it up and laugh at it's little theories and ideas. Or we can agree and learn something new. Or we can find it boring and put it aside.
I KNOW it caters to a certain niche audience, no shit!
But I'm also saying, that it's safe enough material for anyone to read and not see something they probably shouldn't because they aren't old enough.
PLUS, I already told you I felt
Notes From Underground is NOT family friendly because of the darker and disturbing themes that young children shouldn't read about yet.
Violence, nudity, all those things, do make ADULT games, but I never said it made them MATURE.
Listen to Eno, and chill the
out.
Sorry, I shouldn't curse. Just chill.
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