“The chief beauty about time
is that you cannot waste it in advance.
The next year, the next day, the next hour are lying ready for you,
as perfect, as unspoiled,
as if you had never wasted or misapplied
a single moment in all your life.”
―Arnold Bennett
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“Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible.” -Maurits Cornelis Escher …
Uh oh. Irresistible mirth is settling in. Christmas Day is almost here.
“We wake and whisper awhile,
But, the day gone by,
Silence and sleep like fields
Of amaranth lie.”
-Walter de La Mare
“And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.”
-Roald Dahl
“Never did the world make a queen of a girl who hides in houses and dreams without traveling.”
-Roman Payne, The Wanderess
Metroid Prime was able to combine FPS gameplay with an iconic Nintendo IP full of exploration, science fiction, and fear.
“Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man.”
-Thomas Carlyle
“Life is for the living.
Death is for the dead.
Let life be like music.
And death a note unsaid.”
―Langston Hughes
“Sleeping on a dragon’s hoard with greedy, dragonish thoughts in his heart, he had become a dragon himself.”
―C.S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
“A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.”
-Christopher Reeve
A thousand excuses to hide behind, Sleeping through the voices blind, Crack the Writer’s Block and find, All the Gems inside
“Amicus Plato amicus Aristoteles magis amica verita.”
(Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.)
-Sir Isaac Newton
Chrono Trigger magnum opus: addressing questions of interpretation, authorial intent, hype/nostalgia, if the GOAT really exists.
“In the middle of the journey of our life I found myself within a dark woods where the straight way was lost.”
-Dante Alighieri, Inferno
“Above all, video games are meant to be just one thing: Fun for everyone.”
-Satoru Iwata
“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
-André Gide, Autumn Leaves
“We buy things we don’t need with money we don’t have to impress people we don’t like.”
-Dave Ramsey
Rome never looks where she treads.
Always her heavy hooves fall
On our stomachs, our hearts or our heads;
And Rome never heeds when we bawl.
Her sentries pass on—that is all,
And we gather behind them in hordes,
And plot to reconquer the Wall,
With only our tongues for our swords.
We are the Little Folk—we!
Too little to love or to hate.
Leave us alone and you’ll see
How we can drag down the State!
We are the worm in the wood!
We are the rot at the root!
We are the taint in the blood!
We are the thorn in the foot!
Mistletoe killing an oak—
Rats gnawing cables in two—
Moths making holes in a cloak—
How they must love what they do!
Yes—and we Little Folk too,
We are busy as they—
Working our works out of view—
Watch, and you’ll see it some day!
No indeed! We are not strong,
But we know Peoples that are.
Yes, and we’ll guide them along
To smash and destroy you in War!
We shall be slaves just the same?
Yes, we have always been slaves,
But you—you will die of the shame,
And then we shall dance on your graves!
-Rudyard Kipling, A Pict Song
“Golf is a game that is played on a five-inch course – the distance between your ears.”
-Bobby Jones
“Come tuhgethaaaa… right naaahoooww…. over Final Fantasy.” *UPDATE: we’re no longer accepting new…
“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
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
