Dylan getting the novel is great both because Dylan is great and because you get to bask in scootenfroody as Dylan haters get mad
I think it's weird. And I just have an unshakable feeling that they did it just to look cool or whatever.
Mainly I want the prices to go to 150 year old prose hermits living in mountain ranges that nobody's ever heard of, like they usually do.
As someone who would struggle to name 10 Dylan songs or 10 Nobel prize winning authors maybe I'm not the best person to judge
but I like the choice in part cuz it's pointing out how interconnected all art is and there isn't this clear dividing line between high art and pop art or music and literature etc
I don't know anything about recipients either for the most part.
Here's a thing I've been thinking about before that is totally unrelated to Dylan. None, or mostly none, of these 70 year old Swedish dudes can read Hungarian, Russian or Chinese or other languages some recipients are writing in. There's a disconnection there because they're often drawing from a translators work. I try to read books in English (as opposed to my native Swedish) whenever I can if that's the original language, because translations really are hit or miss. I don't like to be one more step removed from the original text if I can help it.
I don't know what I think about it. A person can only know so and so many languages, so there's no other way to do an international award like this. But then you are sometimes handing out the prize to an author and the committee has never read the exact words that the author penned.
also the placement requirement for wonders is sometimes extremely annoying given how mediocre the wonders can be and it seems like there's no indictation for when cultural tile expansion happens??
Most wonders seem super weak, based on what I've seen so far. Just not worth the production.
Petra, baby.
Petra
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MrMisterJesus dying on the cross in pain? Morally better than us. One has to go "all in".Registered Userregular
also all the leaders feel mushier to me than civ4 (i don't remember civ5)
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I don't buy the connectedness of art argument. No writer would be awarded a prize for a movie, no painter would be awarded a prize for making the best song.
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I don't buy the connectedness of art argument. No writer would be awarded a prize for a movie, no painter would be awarded a prize for making the best song.
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ThomamelasOnly one man can kill this many Russians. Bring his guitar to me! Registered Userregular
I don't buy the connectedness of art argument. No writer would be awarded a prize for a movie, no painter would be awarded a prize for making the best song.
I think those are false analogies.
Dylan wasn't given the prize for his music, he was given the prize for his lyrics.
Lyrics on their own, divorced from the music, certainly fall under the category of literature.
I don't buy the connectedness of art argument. No writer would be awarded a prize for a movie, no painter would be awarded a prize for making the best song.
I can imagine, say, an artist producing a piece that consists of a song and a painting and it winning an award for best song, or an acclaimed filmmaker writing a brilliant script for a movie that he isn't able to make winning an award for best movie.
A songwriter who writes songs with a heavy emphasis on the lyrics winning a writing award doesn't seem that crazy to me.
I don't buy the connectedness of art argument. No writer would be awarded a prize for a movie, no painter would be awarded a prize for making the best song.
I think those are false analogies.
Dylan wasn't given the prize for his music, he was given the prize for his lyrics.
Lyrics on their own, divorced from the music, certainly fall under the category of literature.
Srlsly.
Francis Scott Key is scratching his ghostly head.
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I don't buy the connectedness of art argument. No writer would be awarded a prize for a movie, no painter would be awarded a prize for making the best song.
I think those are false analogies.
Dylan wasn't given the prize for his music, he was given the prize for his lyrics.
Lyrics on their own, divorced from the music, certainly fall under the category of literature.
Srlsly.
Francis Scott Key is scratching his ghostly head.
That's not even a good poem though.
“I was quick when I came in here, I’m twice as quick now”
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
I don't buy the connectedness of art argument. No writer would be awarded a prize for a movie, no painter would be awarded a prize for making the best song.
I think those are false analogies.
Dylan wasn't given the prize for his music, he was given the prize for his lyrics.
Lyrics on their own, divorced from the music, certainly fall under the category of literature.
Srlsly.
Francis Scott Key is scratching his ghostly head.
That's not even a good poem though.
It's not a good song, either, but it's still one of the most-sung poems this side of religion.
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I watched an hour long Final Fantasy XV gameplay video. This game is so weird, but maybe kind of cool and there is a doggo in it. A lot of the design decisions just strike me as so dissonant, it seems to bizarre to me to have these fantasy dudes set up camp in a real-life Official Coleman™ Brand Tent and sit in official Coleman™ Brand camping chairs.
Coleman™ Tents: The only tents adventurers trust to recover MP after a tough battle with a tonberry.
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ThomamelasOnly one man can kill this many Russians. Bring his guitar to me! Registered Userregular
I watched an hour long Final Fantasy XV gameplay video. This game is so weird, but maybe kind of cool and there is a doggo in it. A lot of the design decisions just strike me as so dissonant, it seems to bizarre to me to have these fantasy dudes set up camp in a real-life Official Coleman™ Brand Tent and sit in official Coleman™ Brand camping chairs.
Coleman™ Tents: The only tents adventurers trust to recover MP after a tough battle with a tonberry.
Kp this is important
What does the doggo look like
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VanguardBut now the dream is over. And the insect is awake.Registered User, __BANNED USERSregular
I don't buy the connectedness of art argument. No writer would be awarded a prize for a movie, no painter would be awarded a prize for making the best song.
I think those are false analogies.
Dylan wasn't given the prize for his music, he was given the prize for his lyrics.
Lyrics on their own, divorced from the music, certainly fall under the category of literature.
I actually disagree with this. Lyrics, in my opinion, seldom stand alone divorced from the music. Dylan is one of the few cases where they sometimes do hold up, but that doesn't make them literature in my view.
The point I was driving at was more that this consideration isn't likely being given to other artists in other genres. I also feel strongly that this would never be awarded to a musician who is not white,
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Ultrakinky.
Lady Gaga is actually not that bad :surprised:
I don't know anything about recipients either for the most part.
Here's a thing I've been thinking about before that is totally unrelated to Dylan. None, or mostly none, of these 70 year old Swedish dudes can read Hungarian, Russian or Chinese or other languages some recipients are writing in. There's a disconnection there because they're often drawing from a translators work. I try to read books in English (as opposed to my native Swedish) whenever I can if that's the original language, because translations really are hit or miss. I don't like to be one more step removed from the original text if I can help it.
I don't know what I think about it. A person can only know so and so many languages, so there's no other way to do an international award like this. But then you are sometimes handing out the prize to an author and the committee has never read the exact words that the author penned.
Petra, baby.
Petra
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woops i forgot u r a q t
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Such art
Such perfection
they're good bergs bront
It's a mean laugh but I laughed and cried
On Normal difficulty.
This is shameful but Hard looked scary.
this is vintage scheck from like 4 years ago!
geth has gone mad; scheck recycling has begun
rip
I know NATO requires it get a B name. But can't we just call this one the Platypus?
It's the design rendering for the new Russian strategic bomber.
I think those are false analogies.
Dylan wasn't given the prize for his music, he was given the prize for his lyrics.
Lyrics on their own, divorced from the music, certainly fall under the category of literature.
A songwriter who writes songs with a heavy emphasis on the lyrics winning a writing award doesn't seem that crazy to me.
Srlsly.
Francis Scott Key is scratching his ghostly head.
That's not even a good poem though.
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
It's not a good song, either, but it's still one of the most-sung poems this side of religion.
i am immediately using this on several people
tbh I would say that the Tokyo Anime Award could be considered even more prestigious than the nobles
Coleman™ Tents: The only tents adventurers trust to recover MP after a tough battle with a tonberry.
Jump to 2:23 to see Joe Biden do a burnout in his Corvette.
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oh hey it's the college i went to versus the college i regret not going to!
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OU is so pretty ;-;
this has probably been mentioned
but once you become a president or VP you pretty much never ever get to drive a car again.
EDIT: I GUESS I SHOULD HAVE WATCHED THE VIDEO BEFORE I TALKED LIKE A DUMB
Monster
Kp this is important
What does the doggo look like
I actually disagree with this. Lyrics, in my opinion, seldom stand alone divorced from the music. Dylan is one of the few cases where they sometimes do hold up, but that doesn't make them literature in my view.
The point I was driving at was more that this consideration isn't likely being given to other artists in other genres. I also feel strongly that this would never be awarded to a musician who is not white,
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
You're all dead to me.