People who play video games have been shaped and affected by the popular perception of that medium.
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“There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.”
-Aldous Huxley
mage-splain
verb
1. “to make an idea, situation, or problem unlikely to be clear to someone by describing it in snide, jocular, or underhanded remarks, relevant facts or ideas.”they magesplained that one game with feigned disdain”
I sit beside the fire and think
Of all that I have seen
Of meadow flowers and butterflies
In summers that have been
“Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.”
―P.J. O’Rourke
“Some men are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.”
-Billy Shakespeare
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How can I see things from a character’s point of view if they’re constantly breaking the fourth wall to spell out their point of view?
“…so that the monotonous fall of the waves on the beach, which for the most part beat a measured and soothing tattoo to her thoughts seemed consolingly to repeat over and over again as she sat with the children the words of some old cradle song, murmured by nature, ‘I am guarding you—I am your support’…”
-Virginia Woolf
“And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald
“Play the fanfare! Da da da dunnn dala da da daaa dan dan dan dannnnn da dala dann!!!”
“I know that I am mortal by nature, and ephemeral; but when I trace at my pleasure the windings to and fro of the heavenly bodies I no longer touch the earth with my feet…”
-Ptolemy
“For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.” -Alexander Pope
One of the things that brought me great personal delight playing through Ni no…
Is there water in outer space? Maybe space is water? I’ve seen 2001: a Space Odyssey. There’s some trippy crap out there.
Back in the ol’ M of arch, we here at The Well-Red Mage took…
Today, I’d like to talk about an element of video gaming that is virtually not to be found among the classics. This is something that is a thorn in the side of modern gamers, something that reeks of calculated, corporate greed.
When life gives you lemons… prepare to be massively depressed. It can only mean everything you’ve ever hoped for has inexplicably been dashed into tiny pieces, microwaved till burnt, blown up and then vaporized by the surface of the sun. Today is the day the Man of Steel cried.
Welcome back to our countdown. Let’s keep exploring the deep dark greenwood and the recurring…
One of the chief ways in which a video game comes off as an art piece is through its use of music. And one of the recurring themes in video game music is the “Forest theme”.
I’ve been through two PlayStation One’s that stopped working because of lens problems, two PlayStation 2’s, a slim and a regular black one, that just decided they had had enough, an Xbox that cried itself to sleep, a Gamecube that became a paperweight, and a PS3 that’s rapidly deteriorating and recently refuses indomitably to run even its own PS Store.
But you know what? My Super Nintendo still works. In fact, it works just fine. Works better than my PS3.
To be clear, I do, but I actually prefer the term “classic” over “retro”. Here’s why.
People say that Superman is boring. What they actually mean to say is that they know nothing about Superman.
