I find myself craving escapism lately

Anonus

Is this bad?

Salix Babylonika

no.

Yarrun XIX

yes.

maybe. 

Yarrun XIX

But really, probably not.

Imipolex G

is it the flight of the deserter or the escape of the prisoner?

Bee

I was thinking Oh Brother Where Art Thou.

Tachyon

nope

Justice4243

I kinda shun all things escapism, but to each their own...

Of course, part of this is fulled that it seems no matter Human in Equestria stories get made, there's always one or two knew ones people eat up.

Anonus

Well, not that sort of escapism, just like sitting down and playing a video game or something.

Hexartes

Anonus, you have an odd tendency to behave in a completely normal way and then ask if that makes you bad. The answer is always no.

Tachyon

Kexruct is right

Obā-san

Tachyon said:

Kexruct is right

Salix Babylonika

Yon Assassin said:

Tachyon said:

Kexruct is right

Bunny

Yon Assassin said:

Tachyon said:

Kexruct is right

mojave music said:

Yon Assassin said:

Tachyon said:

Kexruct is right

Tachyon said:

Kexruct is right

Section42L

Justice4243

Anonus said:

Well, not that sort of escapism, just like sitting down and playing a video game or something.

NO, YOU MUST FACE REALITY AT ALL TIMES!

*Goes back to writing MLP fan-fiction*

Princess Alice

Anonus said:

Well, not that sort of escapism, just like sitting down and playing a video game or something.

Why would that be bad? That's a normal everyday activity.

Hell, you're on winter break even, so it's not like you'd be blowing off schoolwork. Play your video games!

Tanya

From what it sounds like, what you're doing is not a bad thing, but I will chalk this up to ineffecient data.

There's a reason you would ask that this is bad, and there's a difference between indulging in something and "craving" it

So I'm wondering perhaps if there's more to this than whats being said.

MetaFour

“That perhaps is why people are so ready with the charge ‘escape.’ I never fully understood it till my friend Professor Tolkien asked me this simple question, ’What class of men would you expect to be most preoccupied with and most hostile to, the idea of escape?’ and gave the obvious answer: jailers."

—C.S. Lewis, "On Science Fiction"

Imipolex G

you tell 'em, Clive

Justice4243

Seriously though, I assumed you meant escapism as indulging in media that portrays people being whisked away from their boring (or terrible), everyday lives.

I don't think the act of playing video games counts as escapism.

Sredni Vashtar

MetaFour said:

“That perhaps is why people are so ready with the charge ‘escape.’ I never fully understood it till my friend Professor Tolkien asked me this simple question, ’What class of men would you expect to be most preoccupied with and most hostile to, the idea of escape?’ and gave the obvious answer: jailers."

—C.S. Lewis, "On Science Fiction"

This is an excellent point.

Also, what Kexruct said. You really give yourself hell for the littlest things.

Justice4243 said:

Seriously though, I assumed you meant escapism as indulging in media that portrays people being whisked away from their boring (or terrible), everyday lives.

I don't think the act of playing video games counts as escapism.

Honestly, so long as you don't make that kind of fiction the model for your life, it shouldn't matter.

Tachyon

Playing video games can certainly be escapist, but i'm not sure why that would be such a bad thing.

Bee

HAHA!  AFTER TEN THOUSAND DAYS I'M FREE!

Tachyon

cute

Salix Babylonika

well done.

Sredni Vashtar

Seven hundred days were wasted,

They were wasted like the seed

On your belly like an altar:

First they glisten, now they bleed.

Name the song without Googling or using other search engines and you get a cookie.

Obā-san

Sredni Vashtar said:

Seven hundred days were wasted,

They were wasted like the seed

On your belly like an altar:

First they glisten, now they bleed.

Name the song without Googling or using other search engines and you get a cookie.

sounds like something by either Current 93 or Swans?

Sredni Vashtar

Veeeeeery close.

Obā-san

well that's as close as im gonna get without googling darnit

thenamelesssamurai

Sredni Vashtar said:

Seven hundred days were wasted,

They were wasted like the seed

On your belly like an altar:

First they glisten, now they bleed.

Name the song without Googling or using other search engines and you get a cookie.

Does it involve Michael Gira?

Sredni Vashtar

^ Yes, it does.

^^ Then you and TNS will gain only one-third of a cookie each!

thenamelesssamurai

Sredni Vashtar said:

^ Yes, it does.

Okay, I don't know the song, but I know the band.

Sredni Vashtar

Screw it:

The song is "On the Mountain Looking Down". It is on both Solo Recordings At Home and the Angels of Light live album We Were Alive! It is probably my favourite song of his never to see a formal, full-band studio treatment (that has been released).

Incidentally, the initial track listing given by Gira for the new Swans album when he first reformed the band contained this song and "Surrogate", another solo track of his that I am inordinately fond of; it also shows up in the live set that Gira included with I Am Not Insane, on which he plays it with James Blackshaw. Yes, that James Blackshaw.