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Accepting the Absurd via Super Smash Bros. Brawl

[17 April 2008]

by Erik Hinton

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While video games will always adopt varying levels of verisimilitude, the Wii presents a novel challenge to the conventional consciousness, and that is an attack on realism.

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This is the most delightful thing I have read all year. I’m quite upset that I didn’t write it.

Comment by Monte from Twin Falls, Idaho — April 17, 2008 @ 8:59 am

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Tagged as: absurdism | gaming | mario party | super smash bros brawl | the bald soprano | warioware | wii

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