B. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

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inert — location: 131

nor’easter — location: 137

misanthrope — location: 154

ersatz. — location: 180

autostereogram, — location: 193

phenomenological — location: 258

ne — location: 335

the thing about games is, if you get good at one game, you can be good at any game. — location: 402

chiaroscuro). — location: 468

bucolic — location: 591

Rubicon. — location: 770

tautology, — location: 816

somnolent — location: 955

emeritus — location: 1143

he had learned to tolerate the sometimes-painful present by living in the future. — location: 1161

cicerone — location: 1165

verisimilitude — location: 1205

bromide — location: 1213

There is a time for any fledgling artist where one’s taste exceeds one’s abilities. The only way to get through this period is to make things anyway. — location: 1217

“Why make anything if you don’t believe it could be great?” — location: 1234

nascent — location: 1321

The Great Wave depicts an enormous wave that dwarfs the other elements in the frame, three fishing boats and a mountain. The style is clean and graphic, befitting the fact that it was designed to be carved into a cherrywood block and infinitely reproduced. Sadie knew that the key to making a video game on limited resources was to make the limitations part of the style. (That was why she had made Solution black-and-white.) For the same reason that the print would have been reproducible in the 1830s (its limited palette and the deceptive simplicity of its form language), Sadie knew she would be able — location: 1363

your sense of self could change depending on your location. — location: 1425

“And this is the truth of any game—it can only exist at the moment that it is being played. It’s the same with being an actor. In the end, all we can ever know is the game that was played, in the only world that we know.” — location: 1468

copacetic — location: 1547

teetotaler. — location: 1692

Sam’s grandfather had two core beliefs: (1) all things were knowable by anyone, and (2) anything was fixable if you took the time to figure out what was broken. — location: 1710

Weltschmerz — location: 1810

palimpsest — location: 1836

ouroboros — location: 1876

fastidious — location: 1905

vertiginously — location: 1918

apocryphal, — location: 2184

collogue. — location: 2241

auteur. — location: 2265

bloviating — location: 2270

She liked solitude and the thoughts of her own interesting and creative mind. — location: 2345

Sadie felt a swelling of love and of worry for him—what was the difference in the end? It was never worth worrying about someone you didn’t love. And it wasn’t love if you didn’t worry. — location: 2365

trenchant, — location: 2442

kitsch, — location: 3022

corpuscular — location: 3088

He knew what he was experiencing was a basic error in programming, and he wished he could open up his brain and delete the bad code. Unfortunately, the human brain is every bit as closed a system as a Mac. — location: 3170

miasma — location: 3516

sinsemilla,” — location: 3517

palimpsest — location: 3559

talismanic — location: 3560

turpitude.” — location: 3563

denouement. — location: 3715

gaijin — location: 3776

libretto, — location: 3776

It isn’t a sadness, but a joy, that we don’t do the same things for the length of our lives.” — location: 3796

life was always arriving. There was always another gate to pass through. — location: 3809

conbini — location: 3870

vaudevillian — location: 3885

collegial — location: 4064

The most successful people are also the most able to change their mindsets. — location: 4132

verboten; — location: 4167

tedium — location: 4176

roundelay — location: 4208

quixotic, — location: 4220

bougainvillea — location: 4226

banality — location: 4248

declaiming — location: 4276

emblematic — location: 4376

bloviating — location: 4481

verisimilitude, — location: 4514

emesis — location: 4589

susurrus — location: 4628

tetrachromat, — location: 4638

(They say success kills relationships, but the lack of it will do it just as quickly.) — location: 4697

impedimenta: — location: 4897

senbazuru. — location: 4916

Titian — location: 4943

obfuscation. — location: 5164

jejune. — location: 5348

Sam didn’t believe it was possible to spoil a game. The point was not what happened, but the process of getting to what happened. — location: 5471

“What is a game?” Marx said. “It’s tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow. It’s the possibility of infinite rebirth, infinite redemption. The idea that if you keep playing, you could win. No loss is permanent, because nothing is permanent, ever.” — location: 5501

Alas, what is the point of writing a poem if there is no one with whom to share it? — location: 5580

parlance. — location: 5659

“The boredom you speak of,” Alabaster said. “It is what most of us call happiness.” — location: 5822

anfractuous — location: 5940

iota — location: 5992

She knew what it was to be ravenous with ambition but to have your reach exceed your grasp. — location: 6139

dervish — location: 6146

Sadie had willed herself to be great: art doesn’t typically get made by happy people. — location: 6146

A good game designer knows that clinging to a few early ideas about a project can cut off the potential for the work. — location: 6210

“You have different things,” Dong Hyun said. “You were born into a different world than I was. Maybe you don’t need what Grandma and I have.” — location: 6241

The thing I find profoundly hopeful when I’m feeling despair is to imagine people playing, to believe that no matter how bad the world gets, there will always be players.” — location: 6306

Maybe it was the willingness to play that hinted at a tender, eternally newborn part in all humans. Maybe it was the willingness to play that kept one from despair. — location: 6311

“People play games for the characters, not for the tech. — location: 6381

tautology — location: 6466