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(Tl;dr video companion for this article): They say the best things in life are free. You know what else is free? Being buried alive or having the ever loving shit beaten out of you in a back alley with a fucking hammer, so maybe don’t believe everything you hear Yesterday, we had finally arrived at… Read more
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(Tl;dr video companion to this article): My favorite part of any piece of media is when someone sees what you’re watching, and then trying to justify either why you’re watching it, or that what you’re watching is “not usually like this”… Like being so embarrassed that you’re caught watching wrestling, you lie to whoever walked… Read more
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(Tl;dr video companion for this article): I’ve always been an advocate of “laughing it off” when it comes to frustration, cause if you can turn your anger into a laugh, anything annoying you becomes one big fucking punchline instead. Which, depending how pissed off one is, it’s far better to make something or someone into… Read more
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(Tl;dr video companion for this article): One must be careful about living too much in their own head, or alternatively, projecting a fictional standard on the everyday, as maintaining a sense of rigid idealism can become quite the Judas Iscariot to any thought process. Even if one’s expectations are extraordinarily realistic within the realm of… Read more
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(Tl;dr video companion for this article): We often times take for granted some obvious truths due to being overwhelmed with excitement in the moment Some of these truths are more painful than others, but our inability to notice them all come off tasting just as bitter The transition from Kid Link to Adult Link in… Read more
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(Tl;dr video companion to this article): If one predicates themselves on Stoic philosophy, they will be all the better at steeling themselves for the days when it feels like the whole world is against them… …cause those days are often just right around the corner Continuing on from where we left off, we had successfully… Read more
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(Tl;dr video companion of this article): In the great journey of life, it’s always important to give credit where credit is due Even if it’s one of those “silver lining” credit moments, where the credit is due to something or someone kicking the ever loving shit out of you but it made you better in… Read more
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(Tl;dr video companion for this article): Most of the time, one’s social problems can be resolved quite easily through the simple act of confidently exerting oneself. Link and Zelda should have just implemented the “Focus” strategy when first dealing with Ganondorf. Would have saved everyone a lot of time Yesterday was a predictably joyous day,… Read more
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(Tl;dr video companion to this article): Try as we might, we can’t always get what we want. Though these days, the economy has become such a dumpster fire, wanting anything more than living in filth ridden, abject poverty seems downright utopic I was fully prepared for a totally different “today” to play out in front… Read more
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(The tl;dr video companion for this article): In an effort to kind of expand the realm of Active Time Event, I’ve been putting in an effort to make more video content, which I’ve been including in the relevant companion articles that I write for them. I enjoy the vibes, and writing the scripts for the… Read more
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(The tl;dr video companion to this article): The art of crashing out with respectable tact is a talent reserved for those of us with only the mightiest of constitutions… …or untempered mental health issues, whatever you got in your tool belt, really. While being able to take a break from writing is fine and dandy,… Read more
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(The tl;dr companion video to this article): The fun thing about most of the people I’ve known who play stealth games…is that they don’t seem to be overly concerned about the whole “sneaking bit”. I always recommend they could try, you know, staying hidden in cover and not being hair trigger about shooting anything that… Read more
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(The tl;dr companion video to this article): Some days it feels like one has already failed before even getting out of bed. Ah, the joys of youth….(as in, this is a much harder proposition to pull off the older you get) Feeling particularly existential today, though I’m not entirely certain what inciting incident invited such… Read more
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“Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.” ~ Marcel Proust What world history looks like to a Halo fanboy, probably With uncanny regularity, my Words of Wisdom series always interrupts the finale of the articles I’m working on *just* as they are wrapping up, though if we look… Read more
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The problem with relying on any system to provide value, is two fold. Firstly, handing the keys to someone else in regards to your happiness means you’re trading your own agency away, and secondly, even if you buy into what they tell you will make you happy, you may end up trying to live the… Read more
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Life is one big grey area, and due to this notion, it’s of great importance one appreciates how the black and white all blend together to create the intricate majesty of existence. So majestic… For anyone following along with my Halo coverage thus far, one may jump to the conclusion I am not that big… Read more
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It’s not just about what one is saying but how one says it that matters. When keeping it real in Middle Earth goes wrong For those of you just joining us, I’ve been slowly peeling back the rind of the recently released Halo 1 “remake”, Halo: Campaign Evolved (H:CEv), in an attempt to see whether… Read more
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There is always a fine line between celebrating the past with ardent fervor and being hysterically shackled to it while suffering stockholm syndrome with a fearful smile plastered across a tear drenched face. Ah, the good old Thanksgiving classic With Mina the Hollower pretty much done and dusted, a small reluctance takes over me, as… Read more
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The most important things that influence what we know lie beyond the realm of our current comprehension, thus, it is what we don’t know that shapes our reality more than what we do. We are often our own biggest victims My playthrough of Metal Gear Solid: Delta, the remake of MGS3: Snake Eater, has been… Read more
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Let it not be said that having a healthy mindset based in awareness is vital in coping and understanding the everyday. Bear in mind, “understanding” doesn’t necessarily equate to a good or fun time, mind you. Feeling deeply cynical this day, which is a shame, not so much because I have a strong intuition to… Read more
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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
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Personal discovery is integral in the learning process, and thusly, an essential and underrated part of gaming. Self-awareness shall set you free; it allows one to realize fear is the fuel for the gas can called courage My writing occasionally takes me to places I had not yet conceived of when sitting down to initially… Read more
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When designing a video game, one must accommodate for the lowest common denominator, when creating a fool proof, accessible system. To that point, I’m reminded of a quote attributed to a park ranger who reportedly once said: “There is considerable overlap between the intelligence of the smartest bears and the dumbest tourists”, and I think… Read more
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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
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People’s ability to deal with problems these days does not inspire any confidence, if I’m being honest. Bedrotting trending in a massive way makes a lot more sense when you understand how people respond to these kinds of issues As I continue to make my way through the Silent Hill 2 Remake (SH2R), there exists… Read more
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One person’s fond memory is another person’s trauma response. Like a first date at a Waffle House, for example I was struck with quite a queer feeling when deciding how to begin opening up my address of the Silent Hill 2 Remake (SH2R), as even though this is my first time playing through the remake… Read more
