A numb efficiency ruled by all-consuming self-discipline and self-denial. After a full day’s work without break, Marne will regularly continue at home until the small hours of the morning, rising before 5:00 A.M. to begin work again before
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“The seven billion people on the plane don't give a fuck what you want. They want you to program code for cool video games, they want you hot young girls to do porn, and they want you guys to like go build engineering and other stuff to make their lives easier. And they want food... and they want it fast.”
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“More than any other form of entertainment, video games tend to divide rooms into Us and Them. We are, in effect, admitting that we like to spend our time shooting monsters, and They are, not unreasonably, failing to find the value in that.”
― Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter
― Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter
“The atomic bomb was created with the destruction of men in mind”
― The Great Pearl of Wisdom
― The Great Pearl of Wisdom
“And so, my beloved Kermit, my dear little Hussein, at the moment America changed forever, your father was wandering an ICBM-denuded watseland, nervously monitoring his radiation level, armed only with a baseball bat, a 10mm pistol, and six rounds of ammunition, in search of a vicious gang of mohawked marauders who were 100 percent bad news and totally had to be dealth with. Trust Daddy on this one.”
― Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter
― Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter
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