Quotes About Challenges

All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.

Families aren't easy to join. They're like an exclusive country club where membership makes impossible demands and the dues for an outsider are exorbitant.

It is upsetting to many parents that their teen-agers introduce them to their friends as encyclopedia salesmen who are just passing through ... if they introduce them at all. I have some acquaintances who hover in dark parking lots, enter church separately and crouch in furnace rooms so their teen-agers will not be accused of having parents.

If you can't make it better, you can laugh at it.

One thing they never tell you about child raising is that for the rest of your life, at the drop of a hat, you are expected to know your child's name and how old he or she is.

Who in their infinite wisdom decreed that Little League uniforms be white? Certainly not a mother.

Sometimes I can't figure designers out. It's as if they flunked human anatomy.

Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.

Parenting is a negative thing. Keep your children from killing themselves, or anyone else, and hope for the best.

All of us have moments in out lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.

Don't confuse the term games of progression with other ideas about progression in games, such as leveling up, difficulty curves, skill trees, and so on. We use Juul's definition of the term: A game of progression is one that offers predesigned challenges, each of which often has exactly one solution, in a fixed (or only slightly variable) sequence.

In contrast, games of progression offer many predesigned challenges that the designer has ordered sequentially, usually through sophisticated level design.

For me, growing up as a human being on the planet Earth in the twenty-first century was a real kick in the teeth. Existentially speaking.

My friend Kira always said that life is like an extremely difficult, horribly unbalanced videogame. When you're born, you're given a randomly generated character, with a randomly determined name, race, face, and social class. Your body is your avatar, and you spawn in a random geographic location, at a random moment in human history, surrounded by a random group of people, and then you have to try to survive for as long as you can.

I don't know, maybe your experience differed from mine. For me, growing up as a human being on the planet Earth in the twenty-first century was a real kick in the teeth. Existentially speaking.

Being human totally sucks most of the time.

The world's population was fast approaching ten billion people, and Mother Earth was making it abundantly clear that she could no longer sustain all of us

For me, school had been a Darwinian exercise. A daily gauntlet of ridicule, abuse, and isolation.

MTFBWYA, Parzival

For me, growing up as a human being on the planet Earth in the twenty-first century was a real kick in the teeth.

now the conditions at many schools had gotten so terrible that every kid with half a brain was being encouraged to stay at home and attend school online. I

life is like an extremely difficult, horribly unbalanced videogame. When you're born, you're given a randomly generated character, with a randomly determined name, race, face, and social class. Your body is your avatar, and you spawn in a random geographic location, at a random moment in human history, surrounded by a random group of people, and then you have to try to survive for as long as you can.

I don't know, maybe your experience differed from mine. For me, growing up as a human being on the planet Earth in the twenty-first century was a real kick in the teeth. Existentially speaking

O ser humano é uma porcaria na maior parte do tempo. Os videogames são a única coisa que torna a vida suportável.