Long overdue.

My work has been elsewhere, and after a Heidegger induced hiatus about art and it's place and so on and so forth, I return with one of the most liberating exchanges I have ever witnessed.

It is between MTV's Gideon Yago and Cliffy B of Epic Games.

Mr. Yago says something to the effect of "well, if you put a kid behind a guitar, he looks cool. If you put a kid behind a turntable, he looks cool. But if you put a controller in that kid's hand, not so much."
Cliffy B's response? "Does it have to look cool"?

It is that spirit that I want to send to everyone in my social group, everyone in high school who plays video games and is ostracized for it. That fuck you spirit. We're going to do what we do regardless of how it looks.

It is part of a larger conversation, well, well worth your time below, at MTV's Overdrive.

http://www.mtv.com/overdrive/?id=1532074&vid=87591

That last video is one of the things that speaks about the future of video games, and I can't (as David Jaffe would say) fucking wait to see it.