The cycle of crafting and exploration remains unbroken but is there more to Smoke and Sacrifice than the Loop?
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White Night gives you enough space to feed the experience with your own imagination. Are you afraid of the dark?
I like living in my head because in there, everyone is kind and innocent. Once you start integrating yourself into the world, you realize that people are nasty, mean creatures. They’re worse than zombies. People try to crush your soul and destroy your happiness, but zombies just want to have a little nibble of your brain.
-J.Cornell Michel, Jordan’s Brains: A Zombie Evolution
Pensive and unhurried, The Fall takes its time exploring its themes as you explore its darkest labyrinths.
No thief, however skillful, can rob one of knowledge, and that is why knowledge is the best and safest treasure to acquire.
-L. Frank Baum, The Lost Princess of Oz
“Children see magic because they look for it.”
― Christopher Moore
It’s the ship that made the Kessel run in less than twelve parsecs. I’ve outrun Imperial starships. Not the local bulk cruisers, mind you. I’m talking about the big Corellian ships, now. She’s fast enough for you, old man.
-Han Solo, Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope
I may not look like much, but I’m an expert at trying to be a ninja.
-Darynda Jones, First Grave on the Right
Give me the splendid silent sun, with all his beams full-dazzling…
-Walt Whitman
One night I had a frightful dream in which I met my grandmother under the sea. She lived in a phosphorescent palace of many terraces, with gardens of strange leprous corals and grotesque brachiate efflorescences, and welcomed me with a warmth that may have been sardonic. She had changed – as those who take to the water change – and told me she had never died. Instead, she had gone to a spot her dead son had learned about, and had leaped to a realm whose wonders – destined for him as well – he had spurned with a smoking pistol. This was to be my realm, too – I could not escape it. I would never die, but would live with those who had lived since before man ever walked the earth.
-H.P. Lovecraft, The Shadow Over Innsmouth
It is not about “life after death” as such. Rather, it’s a way of talking about being bodily alive again after a period of being bodily dead. Resurrection is a second-stage postmortem life: “life after ‘life after death’.”
-N.T. Wright
“Nintendo games are for children and you should be ashamed for playing them as an adult”. Guess what? They don’t care.
Happy birthday! Here are 10 things I love and 10 things I don’t love about you!
“Historically, people move west more than east. People go east only when invited. When opportunity knocks. People go west when all bets are off: a reputation in ruins, a love gone wrong. When they need to save their sorry souls, folks head for the frontier.”
―Karen Hines, Drama: Pilot Episode
“Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us;…
“Shall the axe boast over him who hews with it,
or the saw magnify itself against him who wields it?”
-Isaiah 10:15 [ESV]
“Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible.” -Maurits Cornelis Escher …
“Never did the world make a queen of a girl who hides in houses and dreams without traveling.”
-Roman Payne, The Wanderess
“Amicus Plato amicus Aristoteles magis amica verita.”
(Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.)
-Sir Isaac Newton
“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
“Golf is a game that is played on a five-inch course – the distance between your ears.”
-Bobby Jones
“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
“When one is frightened of the truth then it is never the whole truth that one has an inkling of.”
-Ludwig Wittgenstein
“Much have I fared, much have I found,
Much have I got of the gods:
What shall live of mankind when at last there comes
The mighty winter to men?”
-The Ballad of Vafthruthnir
Ah, it’s good to be writing about video games again! So ninety-five days ago,…
