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Kick-Ass is great, although they really shouldn't have capitulated to silver screen schmaltz in the way they did. HOWEVER, Nicholas Cage was an incredible Big Daddy - really did something with that role. So I guess that makes comic and movie even? Actually, fuck that: the comic is still better. Bloodier and more cynical by far

Meaning is limited by context via the author – only if we take the moment of production, of conception, as important to the meaning of a text, thereby mummifying and reducing ‘enjoying’ to ‘understanding’, do texts “depend” on the socio-historical forces of present at conception.

I honestly didn't expect to see MW 2 present anything like that infamous leaked footage.

That said, it is an incredibly positive sign for the developer. It's good to see morality break through the bounds of RPG games (as the same time as RPG games challenge their own boundaries - Mass Effect springs to mind) and invade the mass FPS market. It's not the first - Bioshock, anyone? - but now we have "the decade's most anticipated game" doing it. I sincerely hope the scene is sickening and completely alienating (part of me wishes there was no way to skip it) because, if it is, we are witnessing another step in the rapid maturing of the video game as a piece of art.

And yes, I hope to be writing more often (and maybe even more coherently!) in the future.

before you reach God, the saints will eat you

meaning is a public phenomenon

God is dead, and we have killed him. How will we, murderers of all murderers, console ourselves?

EDIT: "Oh dear! Oh dear! Isn't he going - backwards?" Yes, but you misunderstand him if that worries you. He is going backwards as people do when they are about to take a great leap -

the epistemic level determines the semantic level determines the ontological level

damn this "solemn, sluggish, ceremoniously clumsy" tongue and mind of mine! To struggle with trochees and iambs whilst delighting in even the most subtle meaning; that is my curse.

the rat, the mouse, the rabbit, the fox, watch the roots. the lion, the tiger, the horse, the elephant, watch the fruits.

Finally! NOT DIALECTIC. NO SYNTHESIS. FUCK YOU HEGEL