refreshing to read something like this instead of one of the hundreds of "gief chatchannels "SC2 sucks now", "unit XYZ is imba" etc posts.

Its a nice although not fitting perfectly analogy in my opinion

Asta

Germany3491 Posts

May 31 2010 11:24 GMT

#71

great post.

people have been using the football metaphor, but the paint one is better. it's closer to intellectual property.

lol at ~gomtv and ~blizzard activision, gj!

Simplistik

2140 Posts

May 31 2010 11:34 GMT

#72

On May 31 2010 09:11 Titan48 wrote:
Paint is more like a programming language then the game itself. The artist would be blizzard, and KeSPA would be some gallery that charges money for the public to see the painting.

If I create the Mona Lisa. I then allow an art gallery to display it at their gallery for 3 years, for a nominal fee. After the 3 years, the Mona Lisa is supposed to come back to me possession, but the Art Gallery won't give it back to me. Who's painting is it?

+ Show Spoiler +

Amazingly, it is mine.

Sure, you can have the Mona Lisa back. But you can't have my paintings that were inspired by the Mona Lisa.

538

Hungary3932 Posts

May 31 2010 12:03 GMT

#73

great read

RainWhisper

United Arab Emirates333 Posts

May 31 2010 12:59 GMT

#74

Someone explain the names,,lizzare attision OOOOOHHH

WHEN I TYPED IT I GOT IT,,BLIZZARD ACTIVISION HAHAHAHAH awesome

Scarecrow

Korea (South)9174 Posts

May 31 2010 13:07 GMT

#75

On May 31 2010 08:22 Pholon wrote:
Thus I made the artistic world of Italy's renaissance a better place, making sure the works then created were supervised by a capable figure and with the optimal equipment. There is no need to thank me, I lived to serve.

I liked it up until this.

Turbo.Tactics

Germany675 Posts

May 31 2010 13:25 GMT

#76

Pretty much the best thread ever... finally someone who knows his stylistic devices. Also, everyone using la divina comedia for a post gets an autowin in my diamond division of OPs.

ImSkeptical

Australia51 Posts

May 31 2010 13:41 GMT

#77

A nice metaphor.

Except you forgot the part where Raffaello, Leonardo and Michelangelo actually couldn't paint, and instead owned a dungeon full of talented artists. They would piss all over the majority of these artists, forcing them to paint hours on end under inhumane conditions in this dungeon, except two or three, whom they would give a decent wage. The Raffaello, Leonardo and Michelangelo team, (RLM), also owns all the museums in which the works are displayed, collecting large bags of renaissance dollars from the church who wants to promote their religion to the fans of these artists. Infact some of these church leaders decided to jump aboard and join RLM to help in ensuring art continues to be cranked.

Since RLM owns all the major artists and museums, any independant artists or museums get pushed into having no renaissance dollars and having to move out of art altogether. There were even some artists who attempted to try using a different paint, or a different medium such as sculpture, but RLM pushed them out as well.

So although we acknowledge Lizzare Atisone is an ignorant bumbling baffoon, and with the downfall of RLM we might see the destruction of some beautiful art, as long as Lizzare Atisone gets his act together, impressionism might be right around the corner.

Elroi

Sweden5600 Posts

May 31 2010 13:42 GMT

#78

Awesome article. I loved the Dante references!

On May 31 2010 09:11 Titan48 wrote:
The artist would be blizzard, and KeSPA would be some gallery that charges money for the public to see the painting.

Except that KESPA is a non-profit organization...

Pholon

Netherlands6142 Posts

May 31 2010 14:05 GMT

#79

On May 31 2010 22:41 ImSkeptical wrote:
A nice metaphor.

Except you forgot the part where Raffaello, Leonardo and Michelangelo actually couldn't paint, and instead owned a dungeon full of talented artists. They would piss all over the majority of these artists, forcing them to paint hours on end under inhumane conditions in this dungeon, except two or three, whom they would give a decent wage. The Raffaello, Leonardo and Michelangelo team, (RLM), also owns all the museums in which the works are displayed, collecting large bags of renaissance dollars from the church who wants to promote their religion to the fans of these artists. Infact some of these church leaders decided to jump aboard and join RLM to help in ensuring art continues to be cranked.

Since RLM owns all the major artists and museums, any independant artists or museums get pushed into having no renaissance dollars and having to move out of art altogether. There were even some artists who attempted to try using a different paint, or a different medium such as sculpture, but RLM pushed them out as well.

So although we acknowledge Lizzare Atisone is an ignorant bumbling baffoon, and with the downfall of RLM we might see the destruction of some beautiful art, as long as Lizzare Atisone gets his act together, impressionism might be right around the corner.

Finally some discussion =)

The artists in the allegory don't represent kespa though, or even the players. They are the entirety of the Korean scene, the enormous number of people who've worked hard for 10 years to get Starcraft where it is now and without whom Starcraft would have been nowhere near where it is now. Sure, I don't particularly like kespa either, but they are part of that group of people that cultured and helped Starcraft grow.