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  • Monetizing the Monotony

    “Ignorance is bliss” helps to remind us that a peace of mind is contingent with the notion…you’re better off not knowing. The truth shall set you free…the only problem is: freedom is terrifying I waxed more philosophically then I initially intended to in my last post, when discussing the utterly trivial nature of traditional reviews,… Read more

  • GoldenEye 64: Licensed To Thrill

    As Mark Twain asserted; history doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme. This would go a long way in explaining why my philosophical lamentations sound so sing songy Here we are, at the end of all things. At least, at the end of all things GoldenEye 64 related, as we bring to a close a… Read more

  • GoldenEye 64: 00 Agent Off- 6v7

    A sentiment I touched upon recently, and one that relates to an age old wisdom, is that the journey is always more interesting than the destination. The gooners know…good lord, do they know Finally out of the deep, dark depths of the Caverns that our winding narrative took us through, GoldenEye 64 reaches its apex… Read more

  • GoldenEye 64:Downstairs Mix-up

    The old saying goes it’s always darkest before the dawn… …and sometimes, *you* continue to persist as the darkest thing sulking about, even after the dawn After the impressively vile and rampantly chaotic liquid shitting episode that any replay of the level Control turns out to be (at least on 00 Agent), we move into… Read more

  • GoldenEye 64: One Must Imagine Sisyphus Happy

    Though this next bit of darkly shaded humor may mean nothing to you at the moment, after reading this write-up about one of the final missions in GoldenEye, I urge you to go read The Myth of Sisyphus (or at least a tl;dr summary), to truly appreciate the idea behind the premise of this article,… Read more

  • GoldenEye 64: Ubermensching Through The Undergrowth

    We get by with a little help from our friends… …no matter what’s on the agenda for the day After admiring some trans-continental bilingualism in the form of broadcasting self-aware meta media-literacy on a train yesterday, we move on from a proper derailing and find our selves in the Jungle, as our replay of GoldenEye… Read more

  • GoldenEye 64: The Phantom Pains Of Fallen Empires

    In the grand scheme of things, context takes on many forms; one child’s energetic playtime may be an adult’s calming respite. There even existed a store, way back in the 20th century that even allowed consumers to rent such “context” Powering on through our replay of GoldenEye 64, and now that we have safely escaped… Read more

  • GoldenEye 64: Das Bond

    They say never judge a book by its cover. People say a lot of stupid fucking things, don’t they? As we move forward with our replay of GoldenEye 64, after a brief excursion into totally off the map, extra canonical bullshit territory, with our trapesing through the terrifying terrain that troublingly terrorizes with titanic thermonbaric… Read more

  • GoldenEye 64: The Hallowed Halls Of Hollow Men

    Amdist the bombast and the bullet holes, the violence born of national woes, stands tall and proud the human spirit, with all of their eloquent prose. Well, if it’s true what they say about people being made in “god’s image”, then god is just some freak ass gooner chud pumping loads to Power Rangers porn… Read more

  • Goldeneye 64: Cool Is The Rule

    “Men are more governed by their passions then reason”, a paraphrasing of a sentiment expressed by philosopher David Hume. In the realm of gaming, this loosely translates to: hang the sense of it, ask yourself the real question: is it cool? Cool happens when your heart is in the right place Dovetailing from my last… Read more

  • Goldeneye 64: Surface Level Affairs

    Flirting with disaster is always more fun when you’re the one holding the ace up your sleeve. After I used the word disaster, Reagan popped into my mind. How peculiar… As we continue on with our little soiree behind the iron curtain, and sally forth with our “Bonding Experience” as we replay Goldeneye 64, we… Read more

  • Goldeneye 64: Ambition Stifled By Reality

    What goes up, must come down …and the bigger they are… Following on the heels of a post I found rather peak, peak enough that I strongly considered just going out on a high note and saying hang the sense of doing the rest of the god damn runthrough of Goldeneye 64, cause there’s no… Read more

  • GoldenEye 64: Content Exceeds Commerce

    The quote from The Big Lebowski sums it up pretty well: “Sometimes you eat the bar, and sometimes…the bar eats you.” A friendly reminder that life is full of ups and downs, strikes and gutters, and you’ve just got to take them as they come, and maintain your sense of chill and calm no matter… Read more

  • GoldenEye 64: Being Quiet In A Really Loud Way

    The design ethics of GoldenEye 64 brings to mind that quote from Futurama: “When you do things right, people won’t be sure you’ve done anything at all.” And other times, expectations are just too damn ridiculous to begin with Continuing on from yesterday, where I finally made my triumphant return to the world of the… Read more

  • Goldeneye 64: Getting Shot Off A Train Of Thought

    In a justified moment of reverence to the likes of Thomas Edison, “I’ve not failed, I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work”. Adjusted expectations are vital to a healthy state of mind There is no avoiding the reality that this article represents a “shaking of the cobwebs off” kind of moment, as I took… Read more

  • The Collateral Damage Of The Mobile Markets Slop(py)Failures

    For some, it’s a happy new year to celebrate… …for others, well…’Happy’ is a very strong word Which, I’m not too far off from, to be honest, but it’s really just been more of a slow start to the year than an abjectly disgusting one, thankfully. To that point, I’m not quite sure where the… Read more

  • MKW: Self-Actualizing On The Race Track, One Blue Shell At A Time

    Not all who wander are lost… Others still, are just lost causes As I was finishing up “The Art of Losing” yesterday, the vibe it brought forth carried a certain finality to it, as if it was one of the last great insights I had the ability to muster, in sharing my deconstruction of Mario… Read more

  • Mario Kart World: The Art Of Losing

    When you can’t beat em: help them beat other people. An insane world demands crazy standards With void week nearly over, and the spacetime continuum jolting back into its proper volumized moment of “nowish” in question, the frozen absurdity of humanities follies regain virality unabated, and with it, totality of disappointment made manifest afresh once… Read more

  • MKW: Equalizing The Meritocracy of The Metagame

    As we continue to trudge with aimless abandon through the inane purgatory that is void week, we persist right alongside all of the air conditioned nightmares and blue collar existentialism along with it. Such a sense of isolation and monotony is enough to send one screaming hysterically into the night I continue to spend time… Read more

  • MKW: The Accursed Love Triangle Of The Demon Named Nostalgia

    In the process of finding oneself, experimentation is necessary. Have the confidence to be the monster under someone else’s bed My track record of analysis in most regards remains firmly anchored in the realm of proven standard, though I would be remiss of authenticity if I wasn’t honest about how utterly baffled I am at… Read more

  • Mario Kart: Problems Of Scale Makes Flat The World Too Wide “To Tour”

    Expectation is often what occurs when one sees the world as they prefer to imagine it vs what it tends to be in actuality. Needless to say, often disappointing as a result Yesterday was rife with flow…tis a predictable shame that impermanence reinforced the notion of good things and the time limits that haunt them,… Read more

  • Mario Kart World: The Dilapidation Of Virtual Domestication

    “Broadening one’s horizons” doesn’t always translate into an unequivocally good thing. When keeping it real goes wrong, yuletide edition. In grappling with the truth that confronts me, in all of its profanely greasy textures… the one involving the essence of what makes Mario Kart World the kind of racer it really is, I’m finding it… Read more

  • Mario Kart World: Redlining On The Scenic Route

    The last week of December is truly the no man’s land of modern civilization: just keep your head down, and hope for the best, as the apathetic insanity can’t last forever. Clocking into a shift feeling like getting ready to throw hands with a Balrog I was a bit ambitious yesterday, in both naming my… Read more

  • Virtual Identity and Best Intentions

    Sometimes, it’s the thought that counts. Other times, it’s probably for the best to leave well enough the fuck alone Here I am, at the end of the day, attempting to get something posted before midnight, not necessarily coming in totally prepared with a bunch of gameplay under my belt to reference, nor am I… Read more

  • The MetaNarrative Hallway- Player Interpretation Beyond Fallacy

    Intention is often beyond reason, much like this article, which is not unlike The Narrative Hallway, and something you will understand only in part enough to create your own by the end of reading this. Endlessly finite, to borrow from similar interior design methodology of traversal relevant to the topic at hand With the current… Read more

  • The Rogue Prince and Existential Self-Reflection

    I’m always of the mind one should have a higher calling than money, and a more virtuous pursuit than finance, but when one is constantly harangued to do nothing but chase a paycheck, the take away of aspiring to be anything but mercenary about life is hard to argue against. The irony of course, ends… Read more

  • Doing Diddy (Kong) Justice

    In the realm of video game related writing, I’m never quite sure if my heart is in the right place or not. What occurs in my head every time I sit down to write For anyone that follows Active Time Event on a regular basis, even those rare breeds that have been doing so since… Read more

  • Money Can Be Exchanged For Goods And Horse Armor

    In spite of the terror reality relentlessly rains down upon me, my flirtations with gaming persists unabated. Well…slightly abated, as I have recently detailed, though I remain an admirably audacious individual non the less. Audaciously admonishable to others, mind you….quality is always perspective, though I do prefer the moments when I’m the biggest terror relentlessly… Read more

  • The Experience Machine, Video Games, And Hedonism

    So many buttons, and so much time with which to push them… The inverse can be just as regretable, so it really is a pick your own poison scenario, I find. I’m currently at a loss for words, on some non-literal level anyways, as to what was worth speaking about today in the world of… Read more

  • Nintendo Indie World Showcase Rocking The Right Vibes

    The want to stay informed vs the want to retain whatever sanity I have left by not checking the news headlines…the struggle is real. Basically my reaction whenever I check the news these days Thankfully, the gaming news is far more palatable on the regular, with less probability of wanting to gouge my eyes out… Read more

  • Nintendo Direct Partners Showcase Failed to Generate FOMO On The Switch 2 Front For Me

    I’ll admit, I don’t think my head was in the right place when I started watching the latest Nintendo Direct, even still, I don’t think I expected to feel quite as out of place as one of the heads floating around in the “Chillin by the Fire” game that was shown. Truly terrifying I recently… Read more

  • Quick Posit: It Would Be So Ironic If Nintendo Helped To Standardize Mouse Controls For Consoles

    If anyone could do it, it would be Nintendo…right? Just a bite sized but oh so delicious thought to serve up for your pleasure today, and one I thought was definitely worth sharing, even if I didn’t have a more elaborate article idea servicing the notion. An idea that gestates within my noggin, and one… Read more

  • Nintendo About To Inspire A Whole New Generation Of Artists

    Gamers about to eat In a world plagued with anti-intellectualism and made stagnant with a shallow apathy towards creative endeavor, any instance of recognition with regards to bolstering creativity, inspiring imagination, or promoting artistic effort should be seen as a de facto moment in the modern day world, in helping to keep at bay the… Read more

  • Microsoft Blinks In Its Consumer Game Of Chicken: Holiday Games No Longer Priced At $80

    Nintendo’s face looking at the retail price of Mario Kart World at time of press release, when Microsoft comments games don’t need to have an $80 price tag In a strangely non-cynical moment of consumer time, Microsoft has changed their tune on the price of sequel Outer Worlds 2, a follow up to the popular… Read more

  • Quick Posit: DK Bananza Represents A Missed Narrative Opportunity For Nintendo

    DK Bananza being day one for the Switch 2 would have gone a long way in Nintendo setting far better precedent in justifying price tags and solidifying Switch 2 vibe positive FOMO After seeing the overwhelmingly positive response from both fans and critics alike, I’m positively dumb founded by Nintendo’s missed opportunity in controlling the… Read more

  • To Do List: Video Game Binge Activate

    Time keeps on slipping… …into itself? That’s why today’s post is more of a bite sized tidbit, as it were, best laid plans and all that sometimes leaves one up the creek and without a paddle in the temporal department. I thoroughly suggest to anyone reading this that if you wish to get a new… Read more

  • Blue Shells and Banana Peels

    This article is more of a drive-by-posting of sorts, but there’s always time for a spot of good news. To wit; it looks as if Nintendo confirmed the team behind Super Mario Odyssey is developing Donkey Kong Bananza. Looks like the next Donkey Kong is going to be “feature length”, as it were This much… Read more

  • Smash Bros. Creator Sakurai: AI Is The Way To Survive

    Kiby’s papa spitting hotfire about the need for change In what remains a tragic habituality within my world, I possess a vast reservoir of energy and will to write, and nearly no temporal moments to spare on executing on my imaginative fervor. I will leave you with a notion related to one of my last… Read more

  • I Can’t Believe People Care About Donkey Kong Lore

    It’s obvious Nintendo isn’t monkeying around with the story elements of Donkey Kong Bananza…well, like literally they are, but…you get what I’m saying That is indeed the state of things in our collective primate world, but what is one to do but the best they can in the face of such wild insanity? To that… Read more

  • Dropping $450 On A Switch 2 To Play Mario Kart Still Feels Too Steep

    They say no news is good news…this adage doesn’t seem as relevantly applicable when discussing post launch hype for a game console, however. Don’t let the cheery mustache lead you astray: definitely seems like there have been some bumps in the road post launch I wrote about similar feelings involving how underwhelming the Switch 2… Read more

  • disappointed in the post launch hype of the Switch 2

    Seems as if Mario Kart World is stalling at the starting line ever so slightly… Normally when a console launches, I’m lucky enough to be there day one, as at the very least, an individual launch title usually propels me to plop hundreds of bucks down for some shiny new hardware in the name of… Read more

  • (Revisting) The Greasy Reality of Mario Kart

    These days, I feel quite off when I’m not framing my gaming articles through the lens of philosophy. Almost as if my mention of philosophy in tandem with gaming has become not unlike Marvel editors’ desire to inject doom where no doom previously existed To that point (somehow), here on ATE, self-identity is a big… Read more

  • Wisdom’s Genesis: The End of the Beginning

    Sic Parvis Magna…greatness from small beginnings. A phrase I became familiar with through my love of the Uncharted series, and one I regularly think about in my own absurdist quest of self-discovery, and one that’s taken me from my own humble origins that started all the way back in September 2012 on the original version… Read more