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“Ladies. Gentlemen. You have eaten well. You’ve eaten Gotham’s wealth. Its spirit. Your feast is nearly over. From this moment on… none of you are safe.”
-Batman, Year One
“Mr. Gorbachev… let my people go.”
-Ronald Reagan, 40th President of the United States
“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
“What hath night to do with sleep?”
― John Milton, Paradise Lost
“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”
― Albert Einstein
“Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.”
-Eric Hoffer
This is what Tolkien would have wanted: a cheap button-mashing adaptation of a cheap cash-cow of his epic fantasy magnum opus. He’s probably rolling in his Catholic urn.
“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
“We are the music makers,
And we are the dreamers of dreams,
Wandering by lone sea-breakers,
And sitting by desolate streams;
—World-losers and world-forsakers,
On whom the pale moon gleams:
Yet we are the movers and shakers
Of the world for ever, it seems.”
-Arthur O’Shaughnessy, Ode
“The fact that I, myself, do not understand the meaning of my paintings at the time that I am painting them does not mean that they have no meaning.” – Salvador Dali
“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
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
-Arthur C. Clark
“This is how it happened… This is how the Batman died.”
-Commissioner James Gordon
“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”
― Plato
“Japan was the first country to successfully make bipedal robots. They’re still the best in the field of robotics.”
-Hal ‘Otacon’ Emmerich
“We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we’re curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.”
-Walt Disney
“Never fear quarrels, but seek hazardous adventures.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers
“Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.” –Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Some promises are meant to be broken.” -The Amazing Spider-Man 2 [tagline]
“We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep.” –William Shakespeare
Super Metroid is an iconic and foundational landmark in the history of gaming. Plumb the subterranean depths of this critique with me.
