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The game is an analogy for life: there are not enough chairs or good times to go around, not enough food, not enough joy, nor beds nor jobs nor laughs nor friends nor smiles nor money nor clean air to breathe ... and yet the music goes on.
grandiose paranoid schizophrenia.
Mine was the game where the player cannot lose and may win.
Of chess it has often been said that life is not long enough for it - but that is the fault of life, not chess.
I have never played a game in my life.
Gaming is a kind of tacit confession that the company engaged therein do in general exceed the bounds of their respective fortunes, and therefore they cast lots to determine upon whom the ruin shall at present fall, that the rest may be saved a little longer.
The game cannot be won, only played.
diabolic perseverance
I no longer have it (desire to play).
The game gives us a satisfaction that Life denies us. And for the Chess player, the success which crowns his work, the great dispeller of sorrows, is named 'combination'.
It's an ill councell that hath no escape.
diseases of an unromantic sort,
Not a game, not a game ... practice.
The gaiaphage. That's the other word they use. 'Gaia,' as in world. 'Phage,' as in a worm or something that eats something up. I'm going to go way out on a limb here and say I don't think something that calls itself a 'world eater' is a good thing.
I settled on a game called I am a contribution. Unlike success and failure, contribution has no other side. It is not arrived at by comparison.
To play with correctness and skill the ends of games, is an important but a very rare accomplishment, expect among the magnates of the game.
The beige linoleum floor turned into the ocean, crashed and crashed against Lotto's shins. He sat down. How swiftly things spun. Two minutes ago he'd been a kid, thinking about his nintendo system, worried about asymptotes and signs. Now he was, heavy, adult.
Today, I look forward and I see a future in which games once again are explicitly designed to improve quality of life, to prevent suffering, and to create real, widespread happiness.
A game played with serious problems. That's what art is.
Eat you inside out like stress ... You hear my voice, you see my face, you know my name / I take it out your ass and charge it to the game
I'll tell thee what it says; it calls me villain, a treacherous husband, a cruel father, a false brother; one lost to nature and her charities; or to say all in one short word, it calls me - Gamester.
A disaster where marble has been substituted for imagination.
I was having the best game of my life. This was it. I could feel it. Everything was finally falling in to place. I had the glow.
Change Your Mind - Change Your Game!
There are two infections running rampant. One is the Dragonscale, and the other is panic.
Gunpei Yokoi, asked his boss, 'What should I make?' Nintendo chief executive Hiroshi Yamauchi replied, 'Something great.'
Game Over Nintendo's Battle to Dominate Videogames
The game's in the refrigerator, the door's closed, the light's out, the eggs are cooling, the butter's getting hard and the Jell-O's jiggling,
Once I asked Teichman what he thought of Bird's chess: "Same as his health," he replied, "always alternating between being dangerously ill and dangerously well."
The winner of the game is the one with all the names.
Death stoops over me.
I'm a problem in chess. He
has the solution.
There is no problem that doesn't have some underlying need for more optimism, stamina, resilience and collaboration. And games are, I believe, the best platform we have for providing that.
Finite and Infinite Games: A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility BY JAMES P. CARSE
playing that game!
The biggest game you will ever play is the game in your mind. Master your mind, master your world.
Chess is a contributor to net human unhappiness, since the pleasure of victory is greatly exceeded by the pain of defeat.
A chess tournament disguised as a circus.
A sickness ... defines margins, crystallizes the shape of things.
The game was in his eyes a contest, a struggle with a difficulty, yet a motionless, unwearying struggle, congenial to his tastes.
Frenzy, Heresie, and Jealovsie, seldome cured.
Who's Got Game? The Ant or the Grasshopper? The Lion or the Mouse? Poppy or the Snake?
Sport-based video games occupy an odd space within the sphere of modern home entertainment. Reliably enjoyed by millions, the sport-based video game stands at what sometimes feels like an oblique angle from the larger medium, and in ways that can be hard to articulate.
The Buke of Ye Chess used the game as the basis for a series of sermons on morality. Neither book illustrates play or player improvement, but uses the chessboard and pieces to 'allegorize a political community whose citizens contribute to the common good'2.
Games is like hardwired plumbing in the house of pop. It's not pop itself, its sort of like the behind-the-scenes arteries and capillaries of pop music.
One day, I was playing 'The Game of Life,' the board game, with a mess of kids, and I wasn't quite sure how, but it seemed different than the game I remembered playing as a kid. So I bought an old game, from 1960, and it was different.
What's your name and game.
(Stephen King The Tommy Knockers)
Pac-Man?" The beast looked up at me, oversized fangs giving it an expression that straddled the line between deadly and dopey. A string of drool waved pendulum-like from the jaw, pushing it firmly into the latter category. "When he was a puppy, he tried to eat a ghost," Pallas explained.
Games lubricate the body and the mind.
My whole life has been a bit like a Nintendo game.
Chess is life in miniature. Chess is struggle, chess is battles
A game is where you win and lose, and both are part of it. When there is more chance of losing, it is more charming. The game has value when it is tough. So some little problems that come in life are part of the whole game.
That parasite: the past.
But this plan of yous!' Tawaret shuddered, causing a tsunami of jiggling hippo flesh.
A puzzle with a solution is a game. A puzzle without a solution is a work of art.
Cancer ... the process of creation gone wild, I thought.
When I play too many video games I begin to feel chubby-minded, caffeinated, bad.
Mr. Guppy suspects everybody ... of entertaining ... Sinister designs upon him ... he in the most ingenious manner takes infinite pains to counterplot, where there is no plot; and plays the deepest games of chess without any adversary
Even if you say you "don't play games," that is a type of game - it is the "I don't play games" game.
Gaming has been resorted to by the affluent as a refuge from ennui. It is a mental dram, and may succeed for a moment; but, like all other stimuli, it produces indirect debility.
The game taught me the game.
No. It's not a game. This is the world. It is not the one we were supposed to have, but it's the one we made.
We did this. We did it with open eyes and willing hands. We broke it, and there is no putting it back together.
But I'm damned already... so at least I'm going to try.
The game is my wife. It demands loyalty and responsibility, and it gives me back fulfillment and peace.
The gamer has become the hysteric of the 21st century: out of touch with reality, immature, lazy and troubled.
What are we, if we don't have games?"
"Something else.
Strophe and counterstrophe reached their epode.
Oh, you're Fate?" said Cohen, as they reached the gaming table. "Always wanted to meet you. I thought you were supposed to be blind?"
"No."
"How about if someone stuck two fingers in yer eyes?"
"I'm sorry?"
"Just my little joke."
"Ha. Ha," said Fate.
Chess can be described as the movement of pieces eating one another.
My insides feel like they are crumbling like a towering JENGA game. I lose.
It is unpleasant for the players, when the organizers arrange for play to take place in the morning. The games from such last rounds, in view of the large number of mistakes, are not fit for publication!
Games are starting to creep into every aspect of our day.
In [chess], where the pieces have different and "bizarre" motions, with various and variable values, what is only complex, is mistaken (a not unusual error) for what is profound
The game replaces sexual enjoyment by pleasure in movement.
From the earliest days, videogame players were less interested in winning than in going to a new psychic place where things were always a bit different, but always the same. The gambler and the videogame player share a life of contradiction; you are overwhelmed, and so you disappear into the game.
Caissa, the goddess of chess, had punished me for my conservative play, for betraying my nature.
A game is like a mirror that allows you to look at yourself.
I think the world is crumbling when I have a bad game.
The woman set Sig's chocolate orgy out in front of her and deposited my steak on the table.
"Y'all must work out," the waitress observed a little sourly. She apparently did not.
"I'm going to throw this up later," Sig said expressionlessly.
"I have a tapeworm," I said cheerfully.
A game is a system in which players engage in an artificial conflict, defined by rules, that results in a quantifiable outcome.
Basketball, a game which won't be fit for people until they set the basket umbilicus-high and return the giraffes to the zoo.
The game played a song and Mr. D progressed to level 254. Ha!
Since when do we even play games?"
"Since when don't we play games? Games of life, games of death. Games of love, of hope, of chance, of despair, and of all the myriad wonders in between."
I rolled my eyes at the newcomer. "Hello, Carter.
Game, noun: Any unserious occupation designed for the relaxation of busy people and the distraction of idle ones. It's used to take people to whom we have nothing to say off our hands, and sometimes even ourselves.
You can only play a certain amount of Yatzee games in a row before you become a lunatic.
Their version of rock-paper-scissors was elephant - fist, mouse - palm, and ant - little finger. The elephant crushed the mouse, the mouse squashed the ant, and the ant crawled up the elephant's trunk and paralyzed his brain.
A Caske and an ill custome must be broken.
Chess is a forcing house where the fruits of character can ripen more fully than in life
Hand at Cards IX. The Game Made X. The Substance of the Shadow XI. Dusk
Hunger has always been more or less at my elbow when I played, but now I began to wake up at night to find hunger standing at my bedside, staring at my gauntly.
This field of activity generated a vast literature of carefully assembled one-line omens on this pattern: If A happened, B will happen. Here the sought-for outcome B, known as the apodosis, is deemed to be the consequence of an observed phenomenon, the protasis A. One
If only there were a game whose winning required a gift for the identification of missed opportunities and of things lost and irrecoverable, a knack for the belated recognition of truths, for the exploitation of chances in imagination after it's too late!
Like any classic videogame, the Hunt had simply reached a new, more difficult level. A new level often required an entirely new strategy. I
The metallic silver coating found on fast-food game cards.
The set-up assumes that the game and life are the same thing, and such is the pervasive nature of the idea of the game within the society that just by believing that, they make it so.
Play is hand-to-hand encounter with Fate.
This isn't a game to me, Fable. This is my life. And I want you to be a part of it ... I want you and you only. I'm not sharing you with anyone else.
A man's idee in a card game is war
Forfeit the game
Before somebody else
Takes you out of the frame
And puts your name to shame
Cover up your face
You can't run the race
The pace is too fast
You just won't last
The game had to be played the same way every day or the pieces would fall to the floor, the board would collapse, and the illusion that you were shaping your own life, that you were in control, would break.
D and D: a role-playing game played only by very cool guys.
The world is not likely to tire of an amusement which never repeats itself, of a game which today presents features as novel and charms as fresh as those with which it delighted, in the morning of history, the dwellers on the banks of the Ganges and Indus.
I love chess, but it's the height of decadence.