“Mine Enemy is growing old —
I have at last Revenge —
The Palate of the Hate departs —
If any would avenge”
-Emily Dickinson
Nintendo
“If everything seems under control, you’re not going fast enough.”
-Mario Andretti
“No art or learning is to be pursued halfheartedly…and any art worth learning will certainly reward more or less generously the effort made to study it.”
― Murasaki Shikibu, The Tale of Genji
“That kind of inability to improve is really very rare. That kind of consistency is miraculous, in a way.”
-Zadie Smith, White Teeth
“Let the hate flow through you.”
-Emperor Palpatine
“Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied, and never satisfied are the eyes ofman.”
-Proverbs 27:20 [ESV]
“Laughter is timeless, imagination has no age, and dreams a forever.”
-Walt Disney
A Link to the Past is often considered the best game in the entire Legend of Zelda series, but why? What makes this SNES title so good?
“Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world smells like that. I love the smell of napalm in the morning.”
-Lt. Colonel Bill Kilgore, Apocalypse Now
“Whether skyward bound, adrift in time, or steeped in the glowing embers of twilight…”
“We don’t need to have just one favorite. We keep adding favorites. Our favorite book is always the book that speaks most directly to us at a particular stage in our lives. And our lives change. We have other favorites that give us what we most need at that particular time. But we never lose the old favorites. They’re always with us.”
-Lloyd Alexander
“An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.”
—Victor Hugo
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” ―Edmund Burke
“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
“When one is frightened of the truth then it is never the whole truth that one has an inkling of.”
-Ludwig Wittgenstein
“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 is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.”
-Eleanor Roosevelt
Ah, it’s good to be writing about video games again! So ninety-five days ago,…
“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
I only ate one whining man-child before it was my turn at securing my man-child machine.
“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
“A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.”
― Italo Calvino, The Uses of Literature
“Me and you and you and me
No matter how they toss the dice, it had to be
The only one for me is you, and you for me
So happy together”
-The Turtles
