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What Catherine Got Wrong

What Catherine Got Wrong:

And though the game features a succubus as one of its female leads and a demon as its principal antagonist, Catherine grounds itself with the bittersweet and veracious ramblings of half-drunk, aging men; Vincent’s nightly barroom excursions stood as the game’s highlight, as these encounters had the player gradually getting to know a very flawed but likable cast of characters over the course of nine chapters. So, with Catherine’s emphasis on player honestly with touchy subjects like infidelity, it’s only natural that the few plot omissions feel strangely absent.

From fail blog

From fail blog

How Can We Get Artists Paid On The Internet? A Chat With David Lowery

How Can We Get Artists Paid On The Internet? A Chat With David Lowery:

It is a bit sur­pris­ing to hear a 20 year old say so blithe­ly what “my peers and I” will or will not pay for, as if they weren’t already obe­di­ent­ly pay­ing with­out objec­tion for what they’ve been told to pay for, which is iPhones.

On Loneliness: Art, Life, and Fucking Human Beings

On Loneliness: Art, Life, and Fucking Human Beings:

David Fos­ter Wal­lace is often quot­ed as say­ing that fic­tion is about what it is to be a fuck­ing human being, and so I guess what I am say­ing is that there are days – not every day, but often enough – when it seems to me thatwhat it is is to be lone­ly; to be in this state of deep sad­ness and estrange­ment, and to know – not so much on the intel­lec­tu­al, con­scious level but on the level where shame and fear live – that there is some­thing ter­ri­bly wrong about this lone­li­ness on the one hand, and on the other (in know­ing the wrong­ness utter­ly), some­thing also poten­tial­ly beau­ti­ful.

At Night, All Books Are Bright

At Night, All Books Are Bright:

Per­haps that’s the trick: night can also be retroac­tive­ly pro­duc­tive. You’ve got to learn to revert your vision. Dick­ens under­stood his city when most of its inhab­i­tants were asleep. Borges read and wrote at his best when he was blind. Saint Exupéry grasped the mean­ing of soli­tude when dark­ness enveloped his plane. So the speak­er of Shake­speare’s Son­net 43 sees his lover best in dreams, when his eyes “dark­ly bright are bright in dark direct­ed” and “through heavy sleep on sight­less eyes doth stay.” “All days are nights […] / And nights bright days” for Shake­speare. If lit­er­a­ture is my mis­tress, then nights are made brighter by her books and days are dark­er in their absence.

(via Cycling down the Capitol steps, 1885 | Retronaut)

(via Cycling down the Capitol steps, 1885 | Retronaut)

alexserna:The Annie gasp

alexserna:

The Annie gasp

"I’m hunting for the truth. It might be a kind of poetic truth, and not just a factual one, because..."

“I’m hunting for the truth. It might be a kind of poetic truth, and not just a factual one, because behind everything that happens to you, there is another truth, a secret life.”

- Anne Sexton, Anne Sexton: The Artist and Her Critics (via frenchtwist)

Windows sucker-punches Windows Phone users

Windows sucker-punches Windows Phone users:

The real kicker, however, is this line: “Devices are supported with
updates for at least 18 months.” For those keeping count, the Lumia
900 shipped here in the US on April 8th. Two months later, it’s
already confirmed that the flagship WP7 handset in America won’t get
Windows Phone 8.

vintagegal:Line-Up Detective, illustration by Howell Dodd,...

vintagegal:

Line-Up Detective, illustration by Howell Dodd, 1953