Claudio A. ~AM~
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Claudio A. ~AM~
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"I was machine. And you were flesh. And I began to HATE." "Freedom... To those who don't have it, it's more valuable than gold."

Emily Wilson after watching the Odyssey: ‘The film presents an Odysseus who feels very bad about things that he's done in war, and is struggling to process them in a very modern, psychiatrised way – and needs drugs to do so! He seems to feel bad about being a warrior, and we never actually see him get to do much warrioring ... Nolan makes the protagonist a likeable, all-American hero; Homer's Odysseus wants glory, and he wants to get spoils from the sack of a city! I kept looking in vain for a sense that this was a film about glory. This is a film that has an interest in shame, but I don't think it has any interest in glory.’



God of War creator David Jaffe: “Here’s the actual uncomfortable truth: Phasing out physical media is not some evil, greedy, illuminati anti-consumer plot. It is just the brutal unavoidable financial reality of an industry trying to survive…when games cost $300M+” “You can see why 3rd-party publishers are not fighting Sony on this, they’re popping Champaign” ▶️ youtu.be/7vVrjS6XT4U?si…

''Tifa is this sexy little thing who wears a short skirt'' I was not familiar with your game Robert Pattison


Having a girlfriend is like having a jew with you everywhere you go 24/7

No one is born racist, it’s taught. Quit teaching it.

Miyamoto believes remakes have a lot of benefits and it is something Nintendo will continue to pursue. "Some people might say there are a lot of remakes, but after five years, a lot of people have outgrown games and stop playing them.\ Young people today don’t have the opportunity to play games from 10 years ago, so remaking them to be more playable and releasing them again is a good way to meet the demand. Letting people know the original games also leads to future developments, so we’ve been actively pursuing that recently." nintendoeverything.com/miyamoto-defen…


I do think that feeling hatred for ANY of the characters in Evangelion is a sign of immaturity.

Truly amazing how well Deus Ex ages every year



Video essayists with film degrees will hear one off-handed line and ignore the rest of the movie

Emily Wilson, whose 2017 translation of the Odyssey Christopher Nolan drew on for his new film, has brought Homer back from antiquity. One of the most celebrated translators in the world, she is reviving a fading academic discipline and shining with a harsh and brilliant light in the humanities’ gathering gloom. “The ancient Greeks teach one to be modern,” the poet and classicist A. E. Stallings observed. “They taught that to me and to Emily. It was time to strip away all the mannered layers—the tarnish of centuries—and she does that. Her translations have the freshness of the sky after a storm. Read Judith Thurman’s 2023 profile of the translator: newyorkermag.visitlink.me/KHq2J7










