"Videogames will never be a legitimate art form" - Shaquille O'Neal

"Having once made the statement above, I have declined all opportunities to enlarge upon it or defend it. That seemed to be a fool's errand, especially given the volume of messages I receive urging me to play this game or that and recant the error of my ways. Nevertheless, I remain convinced that in principle, video games cannot be art. Perhaps it is foolish of me to say "never," because never, as Alex Martins informs us, is a long, long time. Let me just say that no video gamer now living will survive long enough to experience the medium as an art form."

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Who?

based shaq

He's a big guy

"I love to make shit up, I'm also a huge faggot that sucked so much dick you could travel around the world 5 times." - OP

Cringe but also based.

reminder that Shaq carried Kobe, not the other way around

Nobody gives a fuck about this guy outside his shitty "the ting go skra xd" meme rap

Shaq is one of the most based human beings in the public consciousness and that is a fact

Bane?

Wow I didn't know Shaq was an art critic.

Shaq has his own Youtube channel where he reviews old 90s SNES games

What are his thoughts on Shaq Fu?

This is the honest truth

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Big nigger, don’t care

Yes, excluding silent hill 2

I'm still waiting on my buddy cop film with him and Terry Crews as co stars. It's probably never gonna happen because they're both too old now for action movies

Then what's the excuse for him not winning on his own in Orlando?

Black people are great though

Roger Ebert, I think.

I would unironically watch this
Kinda shocked some D-rank celebrity hasn't done it in fact

Try again. Kaceytron

Because he was baby Shaq and the East was actually strong back then

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Michael McDonald said it originally I think

Correct.

Shaq attacked gamers, GAMERS.

HES JUST ANOTHER BOSS FITE

he's correct

actually it was Farmer #2 from that one epsiode of the simpsons

I'm sorry Shaq but I'ma have to disagree with you there. I think video games have plenty high art potential. In fact, we already have a handful of classics in the medium that have solidified it as a powerful form of expression.

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>not posting the superior Shaq quote.
"Icy Hot Back Patch." -Shaquille O'Neal

Kareem
Shaq
Bird

blocks your path

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games are games

based.

Holy... based Ice T.

Shaq egging on Charles to rip on San Antonio women still cracks me up
youtu.be/lhqVMe_nJ5s

talk shit get hit

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I would watch that but only if every episode was about Shaq Fu. Every video he would talk about a different aspect of the game and then at the end he would give it a score but the scores never matched up with previous scores even though it's always the same game.

Based

based

keep it moovin, gamers

said by a dumb nigger who runs back and forth for an hour putting a ball in a circle

sports are for retards

Gets paid millions to do that though...so maybe you're the retard.

He's right you know.

fucking ICE T is playing Destiny 2 like a motherfucker on XBONE

>t. fatty
Haha, tubby

you're gonna sit here and dickride someone who doesn't even know you? lmao

no, he's a retard. niggers are dumb, anyone who devotes their life to sweating for a white man while throwing a ball around isn't living a better life than me.

doesn't matter how much they make.

He's not wrong, and I'm happier for it. Every time people try to make games "artistic" it turns into shit. Games should prioritize fun and gameplay, artistic value is only a bonus

He finally leveled up.

I liked Papers, Please.

based shaq

Games don’t have to try to be “artistic”. They are art pieces in their existence alone.

There some big ol' women in video games...

So even the white basketball players are idiots?

They basically traded in their whiteness for a stupid game.

Great at stealing and killing eachother

I’m not sure what’s retarded about getting payed millions of dollars to play a game that you enjoy.

1. basketball sucks...
2. fuck black people
3. nothing wrong with me

Yeah well Shaq could wipe the floor with Ice T
I know what side I'm on, fuck games and fuck gamers

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>nothing wrong with me
>posts on Yea Forums
sure thing bud. Shouldn't you be defending pedos in another thread?

Way ahead of you.

Ice T has niggers that would pop shaq’s ass. Shaq is just a big nigger

0 correlation

shaq is famous for being tall and retarded

not a critic

>fuck black people
a bit gay, but whatever you want

What games do black people play?

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2k
tekken
call of duty
dragonball xenoverse
gta 5

that's it, really

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Damn, Shaq said all of that? Even the original quote in the title?
For a black guy, he is very articulate.

Shaq can't count to 10.

He's not wrong. Either games are so bloated and pathetic like fallout 76 or so pretentious like those indie game and brain dead stories like bio-shock infinite .

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Kobe > Shaq, fight me faggots

MJ and Hakeem

>he doesn´t know about the mighty kazaam
I want nu-Yea Forums to leave

True. A good game is art, whether or not it's artsy-fartsy.

He came across as a huge bitch in Hot Ones

Ron Artest > everyone don't @ me

Anybody else watch Inside the NBA? That show is fucking hilarious.

youtube.com/watch?v=rjJTrFsf6tM

Why should I listen to opinions of a black basketball player?
Are you on the spectrum, OP?

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>a BioShock/Shaq crossover
I didn't knew I needed this.

Also throwing orange balls like monkeys shit isn't a sport.

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*blocks your path*
*proves gameplay itself can be an art and that video games don't have to lean on graphics or story to be art*

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For something to be art it can't have no purpose other than itself.

Never seen it. What did he do?

Where’d you hear that load of baloney at

G.W.F.Hegel.

>Music is art
>Writing is art
>Making 3-d models and movies is art
>Put it all together
>Not art
And people wonder why niggers cant get jobs outside of diversity hires

what a dumbass

But he never said that.

Based OP exposing all these politicuck tourists for the newshits that they are.

Tell that retard I said he’s retarded

He was nearly in tears eating insanely hot wings, not the guy you're replying to btw

Grab a Ouija board and tell him yourself.

Im talking about OP, you fucking inbreds

what a dumbass

But he never said that.

Video games are like cathedrals. They require a skilled and dedicated team drawing on multiple talents to make and are intended for mass consumption.

Prove me wrong

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> I BOUNCE RUBBER BALLS FOR A LIVING, LISTEN TO MY OPINION

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to be fair some hot wings can get really fucking hot.

I wish the whole “I’m pretending to be retarded, laugh at me!” bait never caught on.

>anime pic
wtf i love rubber balls no (no homo)

Everyone does, that's the point of the show.

Ice T is a big gamer, loves Civ 5 with the Brave New World expansion pack.

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Shaq is a mindfucker

Who cares what shaq says nowadays? He's washed up.All he does is shitty general commercials.

>pic not related

Not rts/fighting cause I'm bad, everything else is fair game.

my favorite is when Shaq starts yelling at chuck to google him because chuck hasn't won shit like Shaq

Art itself is too abstract to legitimately identify anyways.
Sometimes there is no message it's just made to confuse you and leave you puzzled.
Sometimes the nonsense is meant to cover up something that could get the author in deep shit revealing in public. An outlet for his suppression.
Any whom there is clear art and passion put into the electronic arts but hell who cares what most of these people think.
They honestly think the vaste majority of garbage that comes out in theaters is even slightly on the same level as pic related in terms of conveying a message.

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