This isnt intellectualism.

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I am only seventeen years old. I am still a pre-graduate, and I just expect intelligence from a forum labelled -for the higher thinkers-. I don't expect a legion of slavering Derrida adherents, but I don't expect monkey bars and a swingset either. I play the game myself. Might not there be other people with the same mindset as me on it?

You are proving me correct by attacking my vocabulary: Nothing in there was difficult, except perhaps aporia. Which is a term I encountered a couple years back in grade ten, in my Greek History. Forgive me for learning something.

Most of you jumped on the fact that I used Kant as an example. What about Coupland, or Hempel? Coupland is a social critic, he wrote Generation X. And Amy Hempel is a beautiful minimalist writer, she fits epics worthy of Dostoevsky in a few pages. What about Kafka? He wrote amazing fiction, and his metaphors, god, his metaphors, are brilliant. I mentioned them in the hopes that somebody would respond, somebody with interests beyond Dan Brown and Stephen King. They were unimportant to the message.

Responding to my post, I see: Psuedo-intellectuals. I see: fakers. And I see: potential.

So I'm not giving up hope yet. The intellectualism Afrobean so hotly denies may just be present, but way above his head. Intelligence is about education or vocabulary or library, it's about perception and understanding.

Afrobean: Did you notice that the way you attack me not only proves my point, but contradicts yourself? "He expects too much of a message board for a flash game." You belittle the very boards you are seeking to establish your superiority over, with replies to all replies to this thread. If it's just a message board for a flash game, why care? Why not let itslide, instead of attacking? Does it piss you off that I leveled this accusation at the forums? Why?

After all: It's just a message board for a flash game. Isn't it, Afrobean? And yes, I'm being quite condescending. My post before was a plea. This one is a pat on your head, telling you to run along and play, don't bother the adults.

Don't be ridiculous. I'm not attempting to impress a coterie of strangers on an online forum. That's rather conceited of you to think so, denotes a bloated sense of self-worth. My purpose here is, I'm looking for people that I wouldn't mind knowing. So go about your daily business: Play the game, post elsewhere, whatever. Only post in this thread if you have something to say. If you don't read it, I can't "try to impress you", can I? You're nullifying your accusations of me just by reading this.