Aragolas
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Aragolas
This desire is at once wedded to a passionate love of the real primary world, and hence filled with the sense of mortality, and yet unsatisfied by it. It has various opportunities of ‘Fall’. It may become possessive, clinging to the things made as its own, the sub-creator wishes to be the Lord and God of his private creation.
Christopher Tolkien • The Silmarillion
Part of the reason I’m drawn to Nintendo Music as a potentially precious product is because, in many ways, it represents the future. Media companies will increasingly have to choose what to own and what to co-pilot. Not every new venture needs to exist as an O&O product, nor does it have to exist within a centralized environment. Licensing out... See more
Julia Alexander • How Nintendo Music Potentially Outlines the Future of Media
The sword isn’t anywhere on her person, that he can see. But then this sickly form beside him is just one aspect of what Nimue actually is. She’s every river in the realm, every stream or limpid pool. The sword could be anywhere or everywhere. Hidden in an underwater cave. Spread finely in the morning mist. Raining down on the mountains in the old
... See moreThomas D. Lee • Perilous Times
Games make us happy because they are hard work that we choose for ourselves, and it turns out that almost nothing makes us happier than good, hard work.
Jane McGonigal • Reality Is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World
When you strip away the genre differences and the technological complexities, all games share four defining traits: a goal, rules, a feedback system, and voluntary participation.
Jane McGonigal • Reality Is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World
Reality Is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World
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The Mall, Nostalgia, and the Loss of Innocence: An Interview With 猫 シ Corp.
daily.bandcamp.comdaily.bandcamp.comThis is what emerges when Jornt confesses that his enjoyment for walking around stores and malls is significantly enhanced by music. He admits, “When listening to mallsoft on my iPod it feels great,” implying that the addition of vaporwave somehow infuses the mundane experience of being a consumer with meaning and substance it doesn’t possess on
... See moredaily.bandcamp.com • The Mall, Nostalgia, and the Loss of Innocence: An Interview With 猫 シ Corp.
Anemoia
According to Wiktionary, anemoia is an uncommon neologism that means nostalgia for a time or place that has never been known. The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows describes anemoia as "nostalgia for a time you've never known".