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Should The Video Game Industry hold the same responsibility to society that both the Film and Arts Industry hold in regards to the preservation and restoration of Video Games?
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If there is one thing that every artist should be responsible of, it's the preservation of art for future generations to come. And entities like the National Film Registry and The Criterion Collection have done a great job in preservation and restoration of film. You can buy silent films on Netflix, or even watch Criterion Collection films on Hulu. It's even easier to find rare films legally in this modern age, and that allows the film industry to preserve classic and present cinema for future generations, and it shows a sense of cultural and economic responsibility that Hollywood and entities like NFR and Criterion has towards the public.
However, most of the video game industry are still dickish about this issue. While most companies like Square Enix, Valve, Rockstar Games and Atlus take value in restoring, preserving, HD remastering and re-releasing (most) of their video game collection, it's still not taken as a serious responsibility by the industry itself. Consider this: 95% of Sega Dreamcast games are still yet to be restored and rereleased in modern digital platforms despite of how much games like Shenmue, Crazy Taxi and Jet Set Radio have influenced the culture within and beyond video games.
During an interview by Red Letter Media, director Alexandre Philippe expouses the importance of Star Wars as belonging to the American culture ever since the induction by The National Film Registry, and how it is a responsibility for Lucasfilms to restore The Original Star Wars Trilogy on new media platforms in its original, unedited form. That holds true with video games too, in my opinion. I believe that Sega has the responsibility to the societyc to re-release games like Shenmue in this modern age especially when its influential towards the video game industry and the pop culture of Japan (Yu Suzuki was even inducted to The Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences' Hall of Fame because of how influential games like Shenmue and OutRun can be). Video games are now considered an art form, and games like Shenmue, Journey, The Walking Dead, Ico, Persona 4 and Rez are pretty much modern art, so in my opinion video game makers should hold the responsibility to the public to restore, preserve, remaster and re-release video games for the current and future generations.
Do you agree with this?
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Most artists are not at all responsible for the preservation of art for future generations. That responsibility falls to public and private museums and collectors. In the case of museums, most obtain art through purchase or philanthropy; many of the most iconic works of art spent years (sometimes centuries) in the hands of private owners before passing to a museum.
I'll accept your premise that video games are art, or at least historic object worthy of preservation. The Library of Congress would agree with you, at least in part, as they have over 3,000 games in their collection.
But to say that developers/creators have an obligation to continue publishing their games for current platforms is a different matter. There is no obligation, only a market (shaped, of course, by copyright restrictions). To follow your comparison to movies, only a small fraction of movies are available remastered or even in their original form; the best and most profitable are maintained for public circulation. And if you'd prefer to compare them to art, well, there's a great deal of art not available for public consumption; even a mere fraction of what museums hold are on display. Cataloging and maintaining a collection for cultural preservation is one thing, but saying there is an obligation to make old games available for purchase by the public is an argument that I cannot buy, even if I think it would be a nice thing to do.
Your Martial Arts Exam Video
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Edit: I realize I put the word video in the title. Could I mod help me change it to just Your Martial Arts Exam? I don't want anyone to feel excluded, just being honest.
I was hoping maybe we could get a thread going where people post their 1st degree exam, from any art. I would like to post my own first, but I am concerned people will think I am just trying to garner views, when in fact I would prefer to make a compendium through reddit I can refer to, to see the various types and formats from school to school, and style to style.
I would recommend we post it like this;
Here is my _ Dan exam, from ___ martial art, in __ style if applicable. This test took place in_. At __ school, under ____ teacher or instructor leading the exam.
What area it took place in should be optional, so as to not give out personal information, for example. then, Link:
Or uploaded video. If that last one is possible. I don't know how that works for reddit, as I put my videos on youtube to make it easier.
I will post mine once others begin to do so or if they support the idea. I want to distance myself that these videos I post are just to promote views- while those ads I posted were, this is not the point of this thread. And I honestly think watching them we can all learn how to better perform as martial artists, and it ought to be interesting.
Here is mine first;
Here is my 1st Dan exam, from Tae Kwon Do martial art, in Chung Do Kwan (blue wave fist_ style if applicable. This test took place in 2004. At Khan's TKD Academy school, under Master Fazel Khan, my teacher. The head instructor leading the exam was Master Brendon Leahy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hY7X57dCK5s
This took place in Burke, Virginia. The school has since closed as after twenty years of teaching, a 6th dan in chung do kwan, and 5th in hapkido, master Khan desired to retire. I respect his decision.
My father only sent me portions of the exam, and the sparring is cut up because there was a LOT of talking my master did, so I edited out those parts which were largely irrelevant. I didn't want to waste anyone's time.
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When I tested for Level 2, we had some small clips of the videos on facebook.
(I'm the one in the Avengers t-shirt)
It's not really a Dan, but it was intense. 4 hours of fighting, when it was about 70+ degrees in an industrial building. It was fun though!
Do All Asians Know Martial Arts? Yes.
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Martial Arts and MMA Enthusiasts! Share Your Favorite Technique Videos
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I'm looking for some inspiring martial arts and MMA technique videos to improve my skills. Whether it's boxing, Brazilian jiu-jitsu, Muay Thai, or any other discipline, share your favorite videos!
Post your favorite technique videos, tutorials, or fight highlights in the comments below!
Thnku 🤫
Top Comment: this video and the videos on this guy’s channel have been very helpful for kyokushin. I also like watching this guy even though the videos are in Japanese, some of them have English subtitles. Osu!
Don't use youtube videos "comparing" MAs as proof of anything.
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Not just once did someone say "watch this vidoe how MA-1 guy wipes the floor with MA-2 guy! Proof that MA-2 sucks!"
Too often you find youtube videos, where mostly some mid level guys, who seem to know it all invite just some random guy from another MA for a "comparison". You can not compare martial arts like this. It's not even uncommon to see videos where they face each other with boxing gloves, even the MA guy, who is trained in an MA, that doesn't teach to box and highlights grips on pieces of clothing. And all these faulty set ups that renders any outcome completely useless for comparisons at all.
The effectiveness of a MA is on orders of magnitude way more dependent on the practicioner's skill and understanding of his/her MA and way less so on which MA the person choses.
The thing is you simply can't compare MAs in this macho-mindset "which one is better"
If you really have the need to compare, you should make a list of very specific scenarios and see how different MAs fare in these situations. You will not end up with a "winner" or "loser", but with a more mature answer as of which martial arts might be for example better suited to keep a big distance, or which one emphasizes more ground work and such.
I'd even go so far as to claim that no MA teacher, who compares MA types as described at the beginning in these horrible youtube videos, should teach.
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One video like what you describe is not proof of anything. It’s an anecdote. However, when you have a large number of them and all or most of them seem to be turning out the same way, you now have a statistical sample size. If you have a large statistical sample size indicating that something doesn’t seem to work under pressure, you should not be discounting the entire sample as useless. It may be open to interpretation, but it is not meaningless.