“Mine Enemy is growing old —
I have at last Revenge —
The Palate of the Hate departs —
If any would avenge”
-Emily Dickinson
Opinion
“All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The…
“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.”
-Winston Churchill
“Let the hate flow through you.”
-Emperor Palpatine
“Dads are most ordinary men turned by love into heroes, adventurers, story-tellers, and singers of song.”
-Pamela Jane Barclay Brown
“Whether skyward bound, adrift in time, or steeped in the glowing embers of twilight…”
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.
If 5/10 is average, when did “average” become an insult?
“Visually striking, original, unforgettable, timeless, other stereotypical critic phrases.” -Pat, New York Times review of Beauty and the…
“He was after a sensational story and this, of course, could not be constructed out of mere truth; not out of officially released truth, anyway. It was essential that the news-reading public should feel, first, that the community was in danger and secondly that people—well-off people, “official” people—who ought to have known better, were to blame for it.”
―Richard Adams, The Plague Dogs
“One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure.”
-William Feather
So a tiny paper weight from a 3rd-world country video game company was recently released and it set the internet on fire like so much dog crap in a big, runny paper bag. Ladies and leotards, the Nintendo Switch, a device so inflammatory it summoned the shock jocks and mouthbreathers from the dark recesses of their dimly lit parents’ basements to spew their bile and record close-ups of their in-grown hairs. The Switch, if you forgot to have your mom pay your internet bill, is the lovechild of John Podesta and Anthony Weiner, in other words, it’s a home system and a handheld, or as I prefer: a homewreck and a port-a-potty. For some reason, this is exactly what a world of over-privileged whiners needed for a punching bag.
“In everybody’s life there’s a point of no return. And in a very few cases, a point where you can’t go forward anymore. And when we reach that point, all we can do is quietly accept the fact. That’s how we survive.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
“If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.”
-Rudyard Kipling
“The suspense is terrible! …I hope it’ll last.”
-Gene Wilder, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
It’s still the same old story
A fight for love and glory
A case of do or die
The world will always welcome lovers
As time goes by
– Herman Hupfeld
Rage Mage Reviews! Ladies and gentlemen, NPCs of all ages: Prompto Argentum….
“Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.”
―P.J. O’Rourke
Ah, it’s good to be writing about video games again! So ninety-five days ago,…
All of Studio Ghibli ranked! After reviewing every film (that I could get my hands on), it’s time to put together my definitive list.
“Always winter but never Christmas.”
-C.S. Lewis, The Chronicles of Narnia
“The 3 types of terror: The Gross-out: the sight of a severed head tumbling down a flight of stairs, it’s when the lights go out and something green and slimy splatters against your arm. The Horror: the unnatural, spiders the size of bears, the dead waking up and walking around, it’s when the lights go out and something with claws grabs you by the arm. And the last and worse one: Terror, when you come home and notice everything you own had been taken away and replaced by an exact substitute. It’s when the lights go out and you feel something behind you, you hear it, you feel its breath against your ear, but when you turn around, there’s nothing there…”
-Stephen King
“No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula
This is the first time I’m giving the world a chance to speak into this process. If you have played a scary game and can think of some pee-pee releasing music that you think should make it onto a list of the Top 20 scariest video game music ever, then leave the name of the song and the game it’s from in yon comments below!
While it might be chic to express displeasure at Nintendo nowadays, we’ve got good reason to this time.
“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
“Don’t play this piece fast. It is never right to play ragtime fast.”
-Scott Joplin
“Some men are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.”
-Billy Shakespeare
