Julien

“Folk she’d known to be big on religion had tended to use it as an excuse for doing wrong rather’n a reason not to.”
― Joe Abercrombie, Red Country

“More people are willing to do the same repetitive activity over and over again for the sake of getting a red polkadotted item to replace the green striped one, than are willing to engage in a broader range of activity.”
― Raph Koster, Postmortems: Selected Essays Volume One

“It’s so easy to fall into ruts and niches in our real lives, and I want online worlds to offer us exotic experiences and interaction with people we wouldn’t interact with otherwise, and a chance to try out lifestyles and worldviews we otherwise wouldn’t have, a chance to try to solve problems that we find difficult to tackle in the real world. Otherwise, why bother making them?”
― Raph Koster, Postmortems: Selected Essays Volume One

“You pick your Chief, you pick your side, you pick your crew and then you stand by ’em, whatever the wind blows up.”
― Joe Abercrombie, The Heroes