Charakterschwäche

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Characters in films are just as fake as characters in videogames. Neither exists. Why, despite the pivotal position emotional attachment has in game design, does film do so much better than we do? Are they better writers, or is there another challenge unique to our medium?

(Randy Smith, Spieldesigner, in EDGE 201)

Jul

13

Hiding isn’t working

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Hiding isn’t working, and neither is whining. The best marketing strategy is to destroy your industry before your competition does.

(Seth Godin)

Jul

4

No right or wrong

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My experience with becoming an adult is, you come to this place where you see that you have this set of beliefs. And you run up against things that kind of defy that. You get into a situation where there isn’t one simple answer and all the arrogance, all the surety of youth is either thrown back at you or it’s at least ineffective. And then the world is thorny, and the world is fucked up and very hard to manage, and it’s impossible to know whether you did the right thing or the wrong thing. It’s about being disabused of this idea that there’s a stone-cold right and wrong.

(Ben Affleck in Esquire)

Apr

20

Preserve your ears

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I’m not a fan of the F-18s. As musicians, you make your career out of preserving your ears. It’s all about hearing. And you just don’t want to be out in the middle of the field with F-18s going overhead. When you’re playing (the anthem), you can’t put your hands over your ears.

(Joe Satriani, Musiker)

Mar

23

Enjoy the silence

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I don’t possess an iPod. I’ve got music going on in my head all the time; I don’t need something stuck in my ear. I like silence, too. A lot of people these days are afraid of silence, but I live in Geneva and we have a chalet up in the French Alps and I spent three days up there before leaving for this [concert] tour. I hardly spoke to anyone. Real silence. It does your soul good.

(Petula Clark, Sängerin, im San Francisco Chronicle)

Mar

20

Zeitung? Ja, bitte!

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Ich habe auch ein generelles Problem mit Leuten, die stolz darauf sind, dass sie keine Zeitung lesen und sich nur noch online informieren – dabei sind doch Zeitungen notwendig, um an der Kultur und der Gesellschaft teilzuhaben. Allen Schülern und Studenten kann ich nur zurufen: Lest mehr Zeitung!

(Günther Jauch)