• Tiago Jacinto@lemmy.wtf
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    17 minutes ago

    “A toaster is just a death ray with a smaller power supply! As soon as I figure out how to tap into the main reactors, I will burn the world!” Toaster, Fallout New Vegas (Old World Blues)

  • jpeps@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    “I don’t think I can forgive you for that.”

    “…but I’d like to try.”

  • Kaijobu@discuss.tchncs.de
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    4 hours ago

    Everything that lives is designed to end. We are perpetually trapped… in a never-ending spiral of life and death. Is it a curse? Or some kind of punishment? I often think about the god who blessed us with this cryptic puzzle… and wonder if we’ll have the chance to kill him.

  • archonet@lemy.lol
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    4 hours ago

    Hello, my name is Dr. Glenn Pierce, and by now you may have realized that all of this has happened exactly the way it was supposed to. You see, everyone who comes to the institute does so because they feel they are no longer in control of something important to them. But, more often than not, the problem is not that the problems we face can’t be solved; the problem is that we become so afraid of failure that we refuse to see our problems from a new perspective – and so we do the same things again, and again, and again. And therein of course, we find exactly the failure we were looking for.

    Your life will always be a struggle, and you will always have problems. But today, you had the chance to see things differently. Even though it meant facing obstacles that seemed impossible at first, you thought outside the box - and you overcame them. Because you saw things from every angle, you understood them for what they really were. Because you kept moving forward, no matter how far off the path you were told you were headed, or how unexpected it became…you found your way.

    In a few minutes, you’ll be back in the real world, and some part of you will say that none of this was real: So how could it have meant anything? But – just like the power of perspective itself – it will have been as real as you believed it to be. All you’ve got to do is… wake… up.

  • JackbyDev@programming.dev
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    5 hours ago

    I don’t remember the exact line, but in Metal Gear Rising: Revengence they say something to the effect of “Just like the WMDs and Iraq!” Referring to how the US used a lie as a false pretext for invasion. It was just so straightforward and direct. Even today that would still be crazy, but that game has been out for a while. Pretty bold to put it in.

  • FooBarrington@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    Spoilers for the Valhalla DLC of God of War: Ragnarok:

    What can I say to you? I remember how it felt to take that throne. All that it meant and all that it did not. A God of war. God of pain, of suffering, of destruction. The Norns said I chase redemption that I know I can never deserve. What does that make me? God of fools. A God of… Hope. “When all else is lost”. You lost everything. And everyone. you became… There is no forgiving you. You chose… I chose. What now? Should I, the same man, should I sit? take? proclaim? lead? place myself in service? In service. Should I lose everything and everyone, there’s to be enough left inside so that I do not become you? I do not know. But I have… hope. You are cruel and arrogant and selfish. But you are more than that. You have always been more than what others saw. You are more than that.

    It hits much harder with the voice acting: https://youtu.be/N7grmI3Bn0k