Gaming Quotes

“All right, I've been thinking, when life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade! Make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don't want your damn lemons! What am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life's manager!
Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons! Do you know who I am? I'm the man whose gonna burn your house down - with the lemons!”
― Portal 2

“You know what's so cool about gaming? The whole collective consciousness thing! Like when you tap into your own knight in shinning armor, you're tapping into all knights in shinning armor. All these archetypes, you know, are we're all of them, and you have to learn to honour and acknowledge them inside you."
"Plus, you get to be people you're not."
"Um. True. And people you are.”
― Devin Grayson, User, Book 3

“Trust can be one of life’s greatest rewards, but it can also be the cause for the most destruction in one’s life.”
― John-Talmage Mathis, I Deal to Plunder - A ride through the boom town

“You’ve looked in the mirror long enough.

See everything as if it were narrated by another.”
― John-Talmage Mathis, I Deal to Plunder - A ride through the boom town

“Gossip is an unavoidable evil at school, work, or wherever, but when the HR department gossips, it elevates into malice.”
― John-Talmage Mathis, I Deal to Plunder - A ride through the boom town

“Life is at best a gamble.”
― Al W Moe

“Since the beginning of time there have been people who see themselves as being above the law. To them the laws don’t apply. These people often hold positions
in government and in the corporate world. Does a similar mentality exist within the casino world?

You betcha!”
― John-Talmage Mathis, I Deal to Plunder - A ride through the boom town

“Every player eventually loses all their money.”
― John-Talmage Mathis, I Deal to Plunder - A ride through the boom town

“... there is no magical formula to beat the casino. None. Save your money. Save yourself from the cons of an author and the cons of the casino.”
― John-Talmage Mathis, I Deal to Plunder - A ride through the boom town

“In whatever decisions you make in life, you have to run them through a series of logic tests to make sure that there aren’t better alternatives.

Don’t ever accept anything blindly— good or bad.”
― John-Talmage Mathis, I Deal to Plunder - A ride through the boom town

“Aside from a few minor quibbles, the Codex Celtarum is simply an amazing book. It’s not just one of the bestCastles & Crusades sourcebooks ever, but it’s something that ANY fantasy game setting can pick up and use/adapt, especially if they are looking for a Celtic flair for their homebrew world and stories. There is so little in the way of mechanics, that you won’t ever have to do that much converting, especially if you already use an OSR system. As usual, the new Celtic content line for Castles & Crusades continues to impress.”
― Alexander Lucard

“This person sees not her own hand depositing the next dollar in a slot machine, but the hand of fate, or God. It’s her true conviction that there are forces at work for her to win a large jackpot— or at least to win back the money lost.

After all, the only-for-show pictures of fruit had almost aligned with one another the last couple spins.”
― John-Talmage Mathis, I Deal to Plunder - A ride through the boom town

“My casino experience is to someone else their experience with their employer, of how the company has elected to behave solely for greed, profits, and spite. But we shouldn’t give up hope in such situations. We have an obligation to separate the justices from the injustices. We should hold these corporate neighbors accountable for the wrongs that they commit.

Someone has to.”
― John-Talmage Mathis, I Deal to Plunder - A ride through the boom town

“I live by the belief that if you work hard and do the best you can, at the end of the day sleep comes easily for the dollar that was earned honestly. It was a lesson instilled by my parents. It was a lesson that I have always followed and found to be quite accurate.”
― John-Talmage Mathis, I Deal to Plunder - A ride through the boom town

“Move aside Ebola, smallpox, and AIDS; make room for narcolepsy. I would become shunned and avoided. Perhaps the
people at the casino thought that this fatigue disease was contagious.

Just because I yawn and you yawn shortly
after doesn’t mean that you have suddenly been infected with narcolepsy. It would be silly if they had in fact thought this.”
― John-Talmage Mathis, I Deal to Plunder - A ride through the boom town