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With Gordon Ramsay-like culinary expertise and barely concealed existential rage, the Sometimes Vaguely Philosophical Mage takes a peek at Overcooked! 2, which may or may not be as good as the first one.
Cosmic Star Heroine is a combination of recognizable influences but it doesn’t let all that inspiration go to waste.
Certainly, I’m sure you’re very busy and I’m very busy and maybe we don’t have as much time to play games as we would like. But my hope is that with Nintendo Switch being a system that you can play at home and bring with you, we’re going to be able to find more of those moments where we’re able to play the games that we all enjoy and be able to enjoy them that much more.
-Yoshiaki Koizumi
It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.
-Buddha
HERE COMES A NEW CHALLENGER!
My wife asked me what I wanted to do this weekend for Father’s Day and I thought about it… then a grin crept onto my face and I began writing this article.
Riffing on the anti-predictive post I crafted for the upcoming Smash Bros. Ultimate, here are like a billion honorable mentions that just couldn’t make it on my list of 24. Thank the internet for these (except for Altered Beast; I made that one)! Hire me, Nintendo.
Happy Father’s Day weekend!
-The Well-Red Mage
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Marvel: “Avengers Infinity War is the most ambitious crossover in history!”
Me:
Alright break it up, you two! Oh, hang on. This isn’t an argument. Gadzooks! It’s a wholesome conversation between two intellects on the subject of gaming and Sega. Imagine that. Checkmate internet.
This oceanic shmup can sate even the most earnest yearnings for exploration, but is there anything worth discovering in its simplicity?
The cycle of crafting and exploration remains unbroken but is there more to Smoke and Sacrifice than the Loop?
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
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
