“To let the player play the story, tell his own story, and have that story be deep and meaningful?”
― Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter
― Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter
“The Way insists that you learn to use the enemy’s strength as your own. The only reason a warrior is alive is to fight, and the only reason a warrior fights is to win.”
― Musashi's Book of Five Rings: The Definitive Interpertation of Miyomoto Musashi's Classic Book of Strategy
― Musashi's Book of Five Rings: The Definitive Interpertation of Miyomoto Musashi's Classic Book of Strategy
“There is always a point at which the terrorist ceases to manipulate the media gestalt. A point at which the violence may well escalate, but beyond which the terrorist has become symptomatic of the media gestalt itself. Terrorism as we ordinarily understand it is inately media-related.”
― Neuromancer
― Neuromancer
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