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)
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
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.
As I stared out at the grim skyline, a bright sliver of the sun peeked over the horizon. Watching it rise, I performed a mental ritual: Whenever I saw the sun, I reminded myself that I was looking at...
Aquello me hizo preguntarme si Hawking también habría participado en la gran mentira de la ADT. ¿Y Neil deGrasse Tyson? Si Carl Sagan estaba metido en el ajo, era probable que otros científicos import...
Anorak’s Invitation begins with the sound of trumpets, the opening of an old song called Dead Man’s Party.
Also, it turns out that burning all of those fossil fuels had some nasty side effects, like raising the temperature of our planet and screwing up the environment. So now the polar ice caps are melting...
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.)
– A következő a helyzet, Wade. Te egy úgynevezett „emberi lény vagy. Az ember egy nagyon okos állatfajta. És mint a bolygónk összes többi állata, mi is egy egysejtű organizmustól származunk, amely évm...
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...
Tried to keep my cool. I tried to remain skeptical. I reminded myself that I was a man of science, even if I did usually get a C in it.
Obsessive adherence to routine and preoccupation with a few obscure areas of interest led many psychologists to conclude that Halliday had suffered from Asperger’s syndrome, or from some other form of...
Life was simple: It’s just you against the machine. Move with your left hand, shoot with your right, and try to stay alive as long as possible.
Home videogame consoles had already made most coin-op games obsolete. After the OASIS went online, they stopped making
His obsessive adherence to routine and preoccupation with a few obscure areas of interest led many psychologists to conclude that Halliday had suffered from Asperger’s syndrome, or from some other for...