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- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Great article. finally some higher brow reading about video game narratives. This type of work will help fill a huge void out there.
escapistmagazine.com — "Plato and Aristotle didn't distinguish between "laughing with" and "laughing at." They considered all humor to be rooted in schadenfreude, aggression and contempt. Two thousand years later, when Thomas Hobbes described the natural human condition as "nasty, brutish and short," he saw humor as part of the problem, not the solution."