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Middens

Hey Kuro. You can use any footage from the game for whatever purpose you like. Thank you for asking.

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This one <3

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Looks great. I love over world maps like these.

Middens Review

Dear Liberty,

You have taken the figurative as literal. It's a metaphor. If I said you and I were in the same boat, for example, it wouldn't be meant literally...unless you know...we were in the same boat(on a fishing trip or something).

Also, your review of my review of their review is wildly redundant.

If my kids were bullied in school I'd have something to say about it. If your want to vacate your bowels on my game...well then I can empty my load on your turd.

Then you say, "How dare you excrete on my excretion! You arrogant cur!"

I can negate your negation of my negation of their negation...lol...but Middens exists and no negation is equal to the creation of something...except maybe...the destruction of everything.

Middens Review

Just joshing...No one's high horse is really going to take a dump on anyone's grave. I'm sorry Fidchell...I expect you'll be buried according to the proper and traditional rites.

But I have to think that it's a bit unrealistic to ask that I lay quietly while the peanut gallery violates my naughty bits.

I may be short of grace, but style...you wound me.

A wise man once said, 'judge not lest ye be judged and for the measure you use'.

Try walking into an art gallery in downtown Chicago and pinning insults to paintings. Then turn to the responsible artists and tell them to accept it. See what kind of reaction you get.

^NTC3...

1. The quotes featured in Middens are many times derived from spiritual texts many thousands of years your ancestor. It's interesting you would call them trite. Do you believe the advice of ascended masters, the Book of Proverbs or the Tao de Ching is pathetic? Apparently so. They're not my words ...and yes you can solve my riddle.

3.The answer to the first riddle is, 'They lived' the answer to the second riddle is, 'Change'. Neither of these statements contains qualitative appraisals.

4.You're right...no review of Middens, whether positive or negative, is meaningful. That's true. That's my opinion.

Middens is what it is. You want me to combat your points to the plotline and gameplay mechanics?

There's nothing to fight.

It's like a joke where everyone laughs and you're the one left in the room silently scratching their head. You analyze the joke from top to bottom but can't find what's funny about it. The more you try to explain it the less funny it becomes.

"Humor can be dissected, as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind."
— E. B. White

You just don't get it. You're tone deaf and not hearing the notes. You want me to describe music to you? If you cant perceive it...you can't perceive it.

Wild Wings 2

Is this an art game? I'll prepare my review.

Middens Review

Hey Fidchell...I hate to break this to you...but when you die you'll be buried under a six foot mountain of pretentious filler in a casket fashioned from wasted potential. At your funeral you'll be eulogized with not particularly well written dialogue and saluted with seventy musical tracks that are unpleasant to listen to.

No actual characters will attend the funeral--just vessels for quotes about you. They'll say, "This person really knew how to beat a dead horse" and "They swept into board discussions like a jackal hungry for carrion".

Oh, and my high horse. It'll take a big gratuitous dump on your grave. :)

Middens Review

"you can totally measure a brick in inches. It's a different measurement but it's still fucking valid as fuck."

I said weigh....not measure...but weigh. You cannot weigh a brick in inches.

No need to swear....did you write this review? You seem very upset.



Middens Review

If the short can measure the long...accurately and fully encapsulate the whole of someone's life in two words. Describe to me 1000000 years of history in one pithy sentence.

What is unfair about writing a review of a review? To use your words; he should be happy I covered his review in good detail and glad I took the time to read it and reply---even if you don't or he doesn't personally, agree with the points of my review of his review.

Sure, you may disagree with points but do not just ignore the whole thing or write it off as to mean that I didn't read his review.

Dissecting a work by its individual parts is called judging the general by the local and it is unsound. Just as it is unsound to use the local to judge the general. All exclusions are infact false because nothing exists independent of anything else. Every phenomenon occurs synergistically.

It is especially poor taste to remove a work from its context...as this review does. If value could be discerned without context an artifact bowl from ancient Rome would be worth the same as a plastic plate. If character could be discerned without context the average Victorian male would appear a pedophile by today's standards, and a Medieval painting would seem poorly drawn.

I have by all statements made valid counter points. Partiality has nothing to do with it. Liberty, your comment is disingenuous to the other reviewers who enjoyed the game. Perhaps you should take off the brown-tinted glasses?

Middens Review

If you believe my questions are irrelevant then you don't understand why they were asked.

You have approached Middens as if it were Mario Kart---totally missing its context---tacitly implying that the purpose of a work should be to please. Much, if not all, of your argument is based on aestheticism. The target goal of aestheticism is beauty. Seeing beauty as a standard to judge any work is sterile and lazy.

Art arises in unique social contexts with distinct values for different people. Creators develop a specialized aesthetic on their terms. There cannot be – and should not be -- an overall aesthetic.

Your review assumes that a soundtrack should be a collection of catchy tunes that are "pleasant" to listen to and demerited what is obviously meant to be experienced outside of comfort.

Visually you accuse of the work of inconsistency never grasping the use of inconsistency as a theme. Emboldened by your illteracy of its meaning you go on to judge it as if it were a choice of style and not statement.

You accuse the game of poor pacing---never realizing that in Middens the player sets their own pace.

In total measure you have misunderstood this work. Critiqued it as if were solely purposed as a piece of pop entertainment.

-Five minutes?

That is the roughly the time it took me to read your review.

-"if you can't make it, you can't criticise it"

To know you must have done. To do you must learn. This is why we don't take advice from children---they have no experience. You are free to make an opinion but only an educated one is worth listening to. This is only considered a fallacy by the fallacious.

-"Simply put, I didn't use the term pretentious in regards to your game because it's unusual. I've used it because the addition of many of those unusual elements had actively detracted from its overall quality."

So you judge the work not for how unusual it is...but for its individual portions of the unusual? You believe that doing so is any less insipid?

It is the sum of its parts. There are no additions. If you cannot see a work as a totality then you haven't viewed it. In a beauty pageant you do not lop the models apart and judge their limbs separate from their body.

Your review attempts to judge the unconventional by the conventional. You might as well weigh a brick in inches instead of pounds.