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“They’re still a bit in advance of the pandemics, at least.” She took the seat opposite. “Nothing before the 2020s has ever seemed entirely real, to me. Hard to imagine they weren’t constantly happy, given all they still had. Tigers, for instance.” Picking”
― Agency
― Agency
“You feel like you have emotions, to me."
"Where's the line between modeling them and having them, though? But I know I can't just make them go away.”
― Agency
"Where's the line between modeling them and having them, though? But I know I can't just make them go away.”
― Agency
“But it can put a lot of pressure on a person to be told they need to be strong.”
― The Testaments
― The Testaments
“Minoru and Yoko spent many evenings at video arcades. They looked over players' shoulders until it made young kids nervous. "What the fuck's your problem, mister?" one kid in a Kiss T-shirt barked at Minoru. Arakawa asked him, "Would you like a job?"
He watched kids stand in front of the machines, transfixed, their hands melded to controllers, their bony arms like umbilical cords joining human and machine. He asked the kids questions about what made a game good. Arakawa realized that the most successful games had something the players couldn't articulate. The words used to describe them were those usually reserved to describe forms of intimacy between people. It was as if the players and the game itself somehow merged.”
― Game Over, Press Start to Continue: How Nintendo Conquered the World
He watched kids stand in front of the machines, transfixed, their hands melded to controllers, their bony arms like umbilical cords joining human and machine. He asked the kids questions about what made a game good. Arakawa realized that the most successful games had something the players couldn't articulate. The words used to describe them were those usually reserved to describe forms of intimacy between people. It was as if the players and the game itself somehow merged.”
― Game Over, Press Start to Continue: How Nintendo Conquered the World
“Kilkadziesiąt lat życia w totalitarnym systemie kształtuje totalitarne postawy, potrzebę autorytarnej władzy. To daje poczucie bezpieczeństwa, bo jest znajome. To niewielki krok z jednego totalitarnego systemu do partii, która zapowiada kolejny totalitarny system. Wiara w tamten system upadła wraz z nim, ale w coś trzeba wierzyć, i oto ktoś proponuje nowy przedmiot wiary. Kto wyrósł w totalitarnym systemie, ten tęskni za porządkiem, jasnymi regułami, brakiem niepewności i relatywizmu. Polska, Czechy, Węgry [Ukraina] też są dobrymi przykładami. I każde irracjonalne myślenie potrzebuje wroga. Pod ręką są imigranci.”
― Deutsche nasz. Reportaże berlińskie
― Deutsche nasz. Reportaże berlińskie
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