One must never underestimate the profound bigotry and anti-intellectualism and intolerance and illiberality of liberalism.
Clinically speaking, depression is a pessimistic sense of your own capabilities, and despondent lack of energy.
The single biggest misconception about games is that they're an escapist waste of time.
I'm not a fan of simulations. Where, 'Oh, we'll go play a simulation of world peace and figure out how to make peace' and then somehow magically that will get translated into the real world. No, that's not the kind of games that I make.
Cory Doctorow is a fast and furious storyteller who gets all the details of alternate reality gaming right, while offering a startling, new vision of how these games might play out in the high-stakes context of a terrorist attack. Little Brother is a brilliant novel with a bold argument: hackers and gamers might just be our country's best hope for the future.
Games are work. There are economies popping up in games now because people value them.
I worry a lot about people using games just for marketing, to get people to buy more stuff, which I think would be the worst possible use.
In England, there are only two things to be, basically: You are either for the labor movement or for the capitalist movement. Either you become a right-wing Archie Bunker if you are in the class I am in, or you become an instinctive socialist, which I was.
I was always very independent and looked out for myself. I think that ability really helped me in later years both in sports and in theatre.
The whole history of the Christian Church is a mixture of errors and violence.
Nothing ever happened except God.