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Role-Playing Games can be fun and engaging. Often times they try to put you in the shoes of a relatable protagonist in a fantastical world – the ultimate escape. But as hard as they try there are some things that would be questionable, bizarre, or just outright hilarious if we lived in their world.
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” ―Edmund Burke
“I admire your willingness to put artistic integrity over marketability.”
-Hobbes, Calvin & Hobbes
“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
“Always winter but never Christmas.”
-C.S. Lewis, The Chronicles of Narnia
“I’ve been blogging since February of 2001. When I started blogging, it was a dinosaur blog. It was me and a handful of tyrannosaurs. We’d be writing blog entries like, ‘The tyrannosaurus is getting grumpy.'”
-Neil Gaiman
“Nobody is a villain in their own story. We’re all the heroes of our own stories.”
― George R.R. Martin
“The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.”
-Winston Churchill
“What hath night to do with sleep?”
― John Milton, Paradise Lost
“Live your own life, for you will surely die your own death.”
– Latin proverb
“The American Dream is that dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement.” -James Truslow Adams, Epic of America
“Americans… are forever searching for love in forms it never takes, in places it can never be. It must have something to do with the vanished frontier.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle
“You mustn’t allow yourself to be chained to fate, to be ruled by your genes. Human beings can choose the kind of life that they want to live. What’s important is that you choose life… and then live”
-Naomi Hunter, Metal Gear Solid
“Ring the bells that still can ring / Forget your perfect offering / There is a crack in everything / That’s how the light gets in.”
-Leonard Cohen
“What is your Favorite Video Game Genre?”
“Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey!
Macho, macho man,
I gotta be a macho man!”
-Village People
“To me, Final Fantasy IV was the first game that made me cry.”
-Tomoya Asano, producer of Final Fantasy IV DS
One of the things that brought me great personal delight playing through Ni no…
“I would like to make a film to tell children “it’s good to be alive”.”
― Hayao Miyazaki
“Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.” –Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.” -Lord John Dalberg-Acton
Final Fantasy Tactics is one of the heavier and in some ways more realistic entries in its series. Haven’t played it? Heresy!
“All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.”
― Leo Tolstoy
“Begin at the beginning,” the King said, very gravely, “and go on till you come…
