“Negative space is important. When I teach students to read critically I advise them to look for what the author isn’t saying just as carefully as for what he or she is.”
-Aaron Belz
Year: 2017
“It wasn’t like there was some obvious change. Actually, the problem was more a lack of change. Nothing about her had changed – the way she spoke, her clothes, the topics she chose to talk about, her opinions – they were all the same as before. Their relationship was like a pendulum gradually grinding to a halt, and he felt out of synch.”
–Haruki Murakami, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
Hey, listen, NPCs! Happy October and happy anniversary to the love of my life,…
“When the brain is whole, the unified consciousness of the left and right hemispheres adds up to more than the individual properties of the separate hemispheres.”
-Roger Wolcott Sperry
“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”
-Benjamin Franklin
“Wherever he saw a hole he always wanted to know the depth of it. To him this was important.”
-Jules Verne, Journey to the Center of the Earth
“I don’t care what happens to them, but unlike you, I was at least trying to save humanity.”
-Reza, Angels With Scaly Wings
“Don’t raise your voice, improve your argument.”
-Desmond Tutu
In this Vagrant Story critique, we revisit one of the more challenging and inaccessible offerings from Square right at the tail end of the 90s.
We are the music-makers,
And we are the dreamers of dreams,
Wandering by lone sea-breakers
And sitting by desolate streams;
World losers and world forsakers,
On whom the pale moon gleams:
Yet we are the movers and shakers
Of the world for ever, it seems.
“As JRR Tolkien reminded us, the only people who inveigh against escape are jailers.”
– Neil Gaiman, The View from the Cheap Seats
“One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure.”
-William Feather
“And again there are mornings when ecstasy bubbles in the blood, and the stomach and chest are tight and electric with joy, and nothing in the thoughts to justify it or cause it.”
-John Steinbeck, East of Eden
“Here I am, stranded on a toxic planet, fighting to survive, and yet I’m intrigued… I must research this fascinating creature!”
-Captain Olimar
What’s important is that you choose life… and then live.”
-Naomi Hunter, Metal Gear Solid
“The thing’s hollow — it goes on forever — and — oh my God! — it’s full of stars!”
-Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: a Space Odyssey
“Mega Man has ended the evil domination of Dr. Wily and restored the world to peace.”
– Narrator, Mega Man
The image above represents almost infinite possibilities. A blank canvas, an empty sheet…
Welcome, NPCs, to the second to the last day of our month-long 31-Day Elemental…
Over the years, at least four branches of gaming have developed: the console thread,…
“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
-Søren Kierkegaard
Hola, NPCs! Don’t mind the leering, icy stare of death, my friends. That’s just…
Five days to go, NPCs, till the end of the Elemental Challenge! Next, tie…
Swallow your fears and pull the covers over your heads because it’s time to…
