Cate Meredith > Quotes

“I think about how many people I know who try to brush off the fact that their ‘agenda’ might be something that exists. That it might be to tell a story that isn’t just the same as everyone else’s. The very idea of being accused of an agenda in itself: what a horrifying prospect. The idea that people might want to be heard! It was as if Karla, right there, had screamed at the top of her voice over almost everyone in the games industry. I have an agenda. I have a fucking agenda. I imagine her standing in front of an audience made up of everyone in attendance at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, and pointing at people: ‘YOU have an agenda. And YOU have an agenda. And YOU have one too. I HAVE A FUCKING AGENDA.”
― Cara Ellison, Embed With Games: A Year on the Couch with Game Developers

“Meanwhile, Terry has received a giant chocolate birthday cake. There is a unanimous decision amongst the attendees that he should headbutt it. He does so; chocolate chips fly everywhere. Later, he will punch the cake, and it will fragment across the floor. I have it on good authority some impish guests goaded him into it.”
― Cara Ellison, Embed With Games: A Year on the Couch with Game Developers