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  • MGS3 Theory: The Boss Threw The Match Against Snake, Who In Turn Needed A 4th Wall Break To Win; And Lord of The Rings Helps Prove This

    Sometimes, you gotta take an L to eventually score a big win. Spoilers: Foreshadowing While I am fond of both sustained contemplation and virtual interloping, I tend to pick up my ball and go home far sooner than most others would who enjoy either activity with the same level of deep commitment. Dwelling, at least… Read more

  • Astonishingly Far Beyond The Pale Of Reason

    Life is full of decisions: the true trouble is never in the deliberation process, but in living with the consequences thereafter. It always boils down to that essential question: Who are others? Hot on the heels of yesterday’s post, which discussed the grandeur of rapidity via speedrunning , as I dig my digits into the… Read more

  • The Timeless Art Of Choking Down Snake

    Curiosity should never cease, as it is reality itself that is comprised of questions. So many questions*** Even though I wrapped up Metal Gear Solid 3 (MGS3) yesterday, does not mean I am done with the title just yet. As I made mention in that article, too, there is something about the first runthrough that… Read more

  • A Paradoxical Immortalization Of An Ideological Faux Pas

    The greatest value one can harvest from the garden of history, is the fruitful lessons that come to bear when given a second glance. Though we are often haunted by the mistakes of our shared history by those who refuse educational standard There is something to be said of the worth of adversity, and the… Read more

  • Beating The Dead Horse Of Understanding

    The world seems best appreciated vicariously through the metaphysical virtues that care and reasoning may provide, though it is most often only enjoyed for the shallow offerings that vice and consumption may offer us. It do be like that sometimes My journey into the heart of the Cold War has been a surprisingly cynical experience,… Read more

  • Gamers: Wanting To Eat Crow About Having Their Cake

    There’s a fascinating phenomenon observed in Lacanian psychoanalysis which showcases that human beings do not want what they actually think they want, causing themselves massive grief in the process. Time makes wise fools of us all Before I further expound about the proposition I just opened with, I did want to say that the Words… Read more

  • Words of Wisdom: Propaganda Of Self

    What kind of solutions one comes up with can reveal a lot about their problem solving capabilities. Some methods more effective than others Anyone who has been following Active Time Event for awhile now, might be familiar with Words of Wisdom, which is essentially a series I do every week, where I share some insight… Read more

  • Betwixt Deafening Silence And Dynamic Mortality

    Self-awareness is key in our ceaseless investigation of the everyday. Allowing us to discover essential truths about ourselves, that lead to a much greater sense of contentment Yesterday’s schedule really got away from me, which I feel was very apparent in my article, one of many that has continued to detail my current playthrough of… Read more

  • The Turn Signal Paradox And The Bare Minimum Standard

    There is a thin line between love and hate. My approach here on Active Time Event, at least when my head is in the right place and everything is coming together in an appropriate way, attempts to replicate the reasonable machinations one would find within the realm of philosophy, as my mind is inclined in… Read more

  • Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater- When The Kojima Ratios Are Pretty Good

    Life can have quite the cruel sense of humor, in that sometimes, in order to get things just right, you must first experience things going very wrong. Progress is rarely linear… Yesterday, I more or less explicated about some personal history I had with the Metal Gear Solid (MGS) series, in attempting to frame both… Read more