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Ultimately, the violence in a game should serve the gameplay. If it doesn't, then it's gratuitous and you should consider doing without it. Realism

I didn't think anyone would anticipate this move, because it was so clearly insane.

I had a serious cute-geeky-girls-playing-ukuleles fetish that I can neither explain nor defend.

If it weren't for Tolkien, all of us nerds would've had a lot less fun during the last ninety years.

Anyone smart enough to accomplish what they have should know better than to risk everything by talking to the vultures in the media.

I was staring out the classroom window and daydreaming of adventure when I spotted the flying saucer.

I was too weird, even for the weirdos. And girls? Talking to girls was out of the question. To me, they were like some exotic alien species, both beautiful and terrifying.

Dagorath was a word in Sindarin, the Elvish language J. R. R. Tolkien had created for The Lord of the Rings.

You have been recruited by the Star League to defend the Frontier against Xur and the Ko-Dan Armada.

no self-respecting extraterrestrial would ever pick my hometown of Beaverton, Oregon—aka Yawnsville, USA—as their point of first contact.

Are you cocks arguing about Star Wars again?" he said, descending the steps and walking over to join the crowd around us. "That shit is so played out, yo.

I voted to reelect Cory Doctorow and Wil Wheaton (again). There were no term limits, and those two geezers had been doing a kick-ass job of protecting user rights for over a decade.

I tried to keep my cool. I tried to remain skeptical. I reminded myself that I was a man of science, even if I did usually get a C in it.

Nebraska," I said. "What's in Nebraska?" "A top-secret Earth Defense Alliance base.

You promised to consider going to college to study how to make videogames, like Mike Cruz is planning to do?

Anorak" was a nickname Halliday had been given by a female British exchange student at his high school.

with humanity? If this was how we treated each other, how much kindness could we possibly show to some race of bug-eyed beings from beyond?

This is a special strain of Yoda Kush that I myself created," Shin said, holding up his giant spliff.

My mom once told me that my dad had given me an alliterative name, Wade Watts, because he thought it sounded like the secret identity of a superhero.

Space—First coin-op arcade game—port of Spacewar!

Philip K. Dick

Our records also show that you are currently unemployed and have therefore been classified as impecunious. Under current federal law, you are now eligible for mandatory indenturement.

Ernest Cline lives in Austin, Texas, where he devotes a large portion of his time to geeking out. This is his first novel.

Especially when it came to the videogames. Videogames were my area of expertise. My double-weapon specailization. My dream Jeopardy! category.