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When I think about Brood War, I often realize that I love the game. It's beautiful. The races, how they fight each other, using their abstract advantages. Watching a master push his race to the limit is truly magnificent.
And yet, it is only a game. I don't love it the same way I can love an intelligent sentient life form. But I can't deny what I feel for Brood War, or what I think of it.
My point is, that I think there needs to be more words. Words for different kinds of love. I truly love my girlfriend. Even if her face got burnt and she became ugly, I'd stay with her. Even if she looked and sounded like a man, I would stay with her, because I love her mind.
I don't like that my love gets tossed in to the same category as people who base their relationships around sex, who do a bit of cuddling, and then claim to love each other. What they feel and think is not the same thing I do. My love for her isn't based on physical pleasure. It's not even based on the emotion of love. It's based on an intellectual approval of what her mind is. The love that I have isn't emotional - it's intellectual. The emotion comes and goes, but even when it's gone, I still love her. Because the love I have isn't an emotion. The emotion is just a side effect of my love.
Now, back to Brood War. When I want to describe how I feel about Brood War, and what I think about it, the most accurate thing I can say is that I love it.
I love Brood War.
But I feel that this belittles the love I have for my girlfriend. Brood War is, after all, not a mind. It can never talk to me. It is not aware of me. And no matter how magnificent it is, I can not have the same type of relationship with a game as I can with an intelligent sentient life forn. But, because there's only one word for love, it's the word I have to use.
We need more words, for different kinds of love. I would like if there was a word for intellectual love, as opposed to emotional love. I would also like if there was a word for the love of inanimate (possibly abstract) things. For example, the love of Brood War, of music, or other forms of art.
Also, the love of justice, and the love of the universe.
What are your thoughts on this?
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I like the idea of multiple words for love, as i too often feel similar feelings about many ideas, and pursuits!
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On November 19 2012 17:26 Telsh wrote:
I like the idea of multiple words for love, as i too often feel similar feelings about many ideas, and pursuits!
Similarly I feel the same way about chess
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I love BW as well. The game is beautiful, watching really skilled players is awe inspiring.
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Some ideas and pursuits offer boundless possibilities and mysteries. Maybe that has something to do with love.
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How about "passionate" or "platonic love" or "admiration" or "adoration"?
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I want to make sweet, sweet love to BroodWar.
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Same here but usually I just end up getting raped.
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Same, too bad sc2 ruined it
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On November 19 2012 18:47 puppykiller wrote:
Same here but usually I just end up getting raped.
tough love
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On November 19 2012 15:12 vOdToasT wrote:
My love for her isn't based on physical pleasure. It's not even based on the emotion of love. It's based on an intellectual approval of what her mind is. The love that I have isn't emotional - it's intellectual. The emotion comes and goes, but even when it's gone, I still love her. Because the love I have isn't an emotion. The emotion is just a side effect of my love.
What happens if she becomes mentally disabled? Or turns into a vegetative state?
I am actually curious what your reaction would be if she did turn into a man. Whether your actions will backup your words. Granted you could still be friends but lovers? Hmm. Unless you were bi...
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BW is the only woman I bother to fuck with my 100% focus, more than 30 times per day.
AND I watch the replays.
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On November 19 2012 20:01 Zoler wrote:
Same, too bad sc2 ruined it
SC2 is like that slutty chick that all the boys want, but is completely vapid and ambitionless, whereas BroodWar is like that awesome chick that truly loves you and wants you to be happy.
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On November 20 2012 02:17 FractalsOnFire wrote:Show nested quote +On November 19 2012 15:12 vOdToasT wrote:
My love for her isn't based on physical pleasure. It's not even based on the emotion of love. It's based on an intellectual approval of what her mind is. The love that I have isn't emotional - it's intellectual. The emotion comes and goes, but even when it's gone, I still love her. Because the love I have isn't an emotion. The emotion is just a side effect of my love. What happens if she becomes mentally disabled? Or turns into a vegetative state? I am actually curious what your reaction would be if she did turn into a man. Whether your actions will backup your words. Granted you could still be friends but lovers? Hmm. Unless you were bi...
I would love her, and I would want to live with her, but we wouldn't have sex. If she (I'll use she since her brain, and therefor she, would still be female) demanded that I not have sex with anyone else, I'd just masturbate for the rest of my life, because I find her more important than sexual pleasure. If she didn't demand this, I would probably have sex with other people because I'm horny.
If she REALLY wanted to have sex with me, then I guess I could let her fuck me, for her sake. But I wouldn't enjoy it too much. Only a little bit because of knowing it was pleasing her.
I didn't think she was physically attractive when we started talking. I had only seen pictures of her in which she looked ugly (Yeah, we met online, IDGAF) but I still talked to her because I found her interesting mentally, but not physically. To me, an unattractive woman is the same as a man, in terms of sex. I won't do it with either. So I talked to her, got to know her, and started liking her, without the intention of having sex.
If she becomes mentally damaged, or becomes a vegetable, then who she is changes. I can not guarantee that I will still love her if her mind changes too much in a certain way, or takes damage, because it's changing who she is. It depends on how she changes and how much. I am aware that normal change throughout a persons life can change who they are as well, and that sort of change can also make me not love anymore.
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