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I'm sure saying that you wanted to punch the guy is hyperbole, but it strikes me as completely insane to be so personally affected by some stranger in your vicinity disliking something you like.
Incidentally, I hated Avatar and said so when I left the theaters. It never occurred to me that anybody but the friend I was with would care what I thought. Why would they? To them, I'm just some idiot who didn't like the movie. To me, they're some idiot who did. No hard feelings either way."
1. Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
2. Super Mario 64
3. Deus Ex
4. Metal Gear Solid
5. Portal
6. Shadow of the Colossus
7. Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
8. Chrono Trigger
9. Super Metroid
10. Pokemon Gold/Silver "
And how precisely is it illogical to dislike certain elements of a film but enjoy it overall? If such a stance is illogical, then my feelings towards my family would make a case-study in illogic. (Actually, my feelings towards my family would make a number of case-studies, but that's another topic.)"
Which is fine, in both cases. But again, meaningless to any kind of discourse. I for one believe that you can "back up affection for something with logic", because you can back up everything with logic. That's kind of how logic works. If you can't find the words to articulate the reasons why you like something, it is not because those words do not exist. It's because you just do not have a grasp of them."
But I think you're missing the point. It's not specifically that Ebert has never played these games, it's that he clearly doesn't even understand what they even are. He compares the time mechanic in Braid to chess and asks if Flower has scoring. How could you debate the merits of something that you don't even understand? And you absolutely do need to have some sliver of understanding of what you are talking about if you wish to be taken seriously. If he wrote about these games in a way that suggested that he knew what they were, how they worked, and specifically why they are perceived as artistic by others, then no one would have suggested that he should play them."
Besides, no one is agreeing with Frank because "Frank" is the devil's advocate. Frank doesn't even agree with Frank."
My brain keeps trying to establish a rhythm from the first line and repeat it in the second... but they don't ever match so I get thrown... either inserting extra syllables unintentionally, or trying to emphasize the "rhyming" syllable before or after they actually show up.
Which are all details I'm quite sure no one cares about... but because these limericks do not follow traditional form, they don't really read very smoothly. To me at least.
Tell me to shut up if I'm too nitpicky, but this is a site for user generated content and feedback... and my feedback is that these limericks are hard to read.
Anyway, I'll shut up now."