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Reasons I'm a math major, #6:

I much prefer reading five pages of extremely dense and complicated information which, when parsed, reveal absolute truth via cold hard logic in a good solid language. Particularily over reading a hundred pages which tell me what an ancient philosopher thought about concepts too vague for language to hold in an imperfect translation of a dead language.

It's like playing Phoenix Wright. The effort is all in my head.

As opposed to, say, playing Xenosaga. In which the effort is in figuring out why I care.


...


And then of course there's the eighty pages about how an artist's life is paaaain and his sufferings are almost beyond human imagining, because when he was 17 he embarassed himself in front of the girl he liked and when he was 14 the boy he liked said his name was weird. In German.

I'm not sure if there's a videogame analogy for that.

Date: 2007-10-22 02:42 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] arks.livejournal.com
Oh c'mon. If we're just going on convoluted backstory full of poorly translated waaaaangst, then obviously German Lit is much more like FF7.

Date: 2007-10-22 02:48 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mazoboom.livejournal.com
But it's an "artist's life." That immediately made me think of the beginning of Xenogears.

Date: 2007-10-22 03:43 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] arks.livejournal.com
dude but Fei didn't get angst from his art

or from teen romance ISSUES

or from being colorblinded by the devil when he was ten

or from raping a girl who died from the botched abortion

or from his daddy issues- well okay. Okay except not really. Except KINDA. Except no.

Date: 2007-10-22 03:53 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mazoboom.livejournal.com
I'm pretty sure there was something in the awful second disc about colorblind abortions.

Date: 2007-10-22 11:20 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] arks.livejournal.com
Wasn't that what we were fighting?

Date: 2007-10-22 01:17 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] eva-kasumi.livejournal.com
I have now been utterly scarred for life by this game. D=

Date: 2007-10-22 04:26 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] arks.livejournal.com
You haven't even played it yet!

YET.

Date: 2007-10-22 06:06 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mazoboom.livejournal.com
I thought we were fighting ourselves anyway! Id, ego... subego. Look. I played this game 10 or so years ago and the only thing I concretely remember is:

MAN...
OF...
THE...
SEA

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