E avevo OASIS. La mia vita non era poi così male. O almeno è quello che continuavo a ripetermi, nel vano tentativo di alleviare la solitudine in cui mi ero trovato a vivere.
Douglas Adams, Kurt Vonnegut, Neal Stephenson, Richard K. Morgan, Stephen King, Orson Scott Card, Terry Pratchett, Terry Brooks,
Correct, the machine replied. But thankfully you made the correct choice, and knowingly disengaged from the cycle of warlike escalation with your imaginary enemy. That is why I’m speaking to you now....
City-sized shopping malls were erected in the blink of an eye, and storefronts spread across planets like time-lapse footage of mold devouring an orange.
Být člověkem je většinu času dost na hovno. Videohry jsou jediná věc, která činí život snesitelným. (Anorakův almanach, 91. Kapitola, řádek 1–2)
Busted, I said, raising my hands in a gesture of guilt. That’s what you get
Bester, Bradbury, Haldeman, Heinlein, Tolkien, Vance, Gibson, Gaiman, Scalzi, Zelazny.
Besides, what if BSG and Firefly took place in the same universe? You ever consider that? I
Besides, now I was thinking there just might be a God after all—that would explain who was currently fucking with my whole notion of reality.
Being human totally sucks most of the time. Videogames are the only thing that make life bearable. —Anorak’s Almanac, Chapter 91, Verses 1–2
Being human totally sucks most of the time. Videogames are the only thing thatmake life bearable.
At the center of all that gear was the opening DJ, R2-D2, hard at work, using his various robotic arms to work the turntables.
Astronaut Kjell Lindgren, for giving me a guided tour of NASA, for sharing his patriotism and enthusiasm with me, and for taking the cover of my first novel up in outer space. I want to be him when I...
And, of course, Kevin Smith.
And in addition to the credits, my avatar received an equal number of experience points for obtaining the coins.
All of them have tentacles, like their mother! The youngest one in curls! Diehl laughed. Cruz laughed. I laughed.
All I’d eaten that morning was a raw strawberry Pop-Tart I’d wolfed down in my car on the way to school—and
Ali, sob as luzes fluorescentes de meu pequeno apartamento de um cômodo, não havia modo de escapar da verdade. Na vida real, eu não passava de um ermitão antissocial. Um recluso. Um geek pálido obceca...
These wise men apparently thought setting up a small shop in the middle of a monster-infested dungeon was a fine idea.)
Óránkon át dumáltunk. Hosszú és csapongó beszélgetéseket folytattunk mindenféléről. Teljesen elkábított, amikor időt tölthettem vele. Mintha drog lett volna, amiből sosem elég. Úgy éreztem, tökéletes...