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PSN, Bin Laden, and the Impact of One - Sessler's Soapbox - G4tv.com

Image via WikipediaI really like Adam Sessler. I really enjoy his comments on culture, movies, and video games. Given the many events of the past week I couldn't pass up the chance to hear his opinion.

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Watson Kills All Humans - Sessler's Soapbox - G4tv.com

Image via WikipediaAdam Sessler has offers his comments regarding the recent win of Watson on Jeopardy and what artificial intelligence means for the human race. Makes me laugh!

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Sessler's Soapbox: Adam vs. Ebert - Can Video Games be Art? - G4tv.com

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I was real interested to hear Adam Sessler's thoughts on Roger Ebert's essay on how Video Games is not art. I half agree with Sessler. It doesn't really matter if critics and academics out of the video game industry ever agree that video games will ever be art. It doesn't really matter what they think. Their permission won't make anything better. However I disagree with both Adam and Ebert in that I think of video games as just as much art as paintings, drawings, film, and literature. My definition of art is more broad than Sesslers because I don't think that there is no such thing as art where people don't bring something to the experience of the final product. For example when two people read a story book, even if there are pictures, neither one will imagine the exact same thing. And people always bring their own presuppositions, biases, worldviews, and imagination to everything and that will change how they understand the message of the original author. Art is always subjective. It's just in video games the player joins with the author in telling the story and it will be different depending on the player.

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Sessler's Soapbox: Violence Has Always Been Entertaining - G4tv.com

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Adam Sessler gives his thoughts on how throughout human history violence, blood, and gore has always been part of human entertainment. I agree. Then we wonder why the Bible says everyone is sinful! We are guilty. 

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