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{{quote|All the world's a stage, |
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And all the men and women merely players; |
And all the men and women merely players; |
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They have their exits and their entrances; |
They have their exits and their entrances; |
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That ends this strange eventful history, |
That ends this strange eventful history, |
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Is second childishness and mere oblivion; |
Is second childishness and mere oblivion; |
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Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything." |
Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything." |
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|'''Jaques'''|''[[As You Like It]]'' Act II, Scene VII, lines 139-166}} |
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{{quote|Ah! [[Like Reality Unless Noted|What avails]] the classic bent |
{{quote|Ah! [[Like Reality Unless Noted|What avails]] the classic bent |
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Through paint and prose and rhyme-- |
Through paint and prose and rhyme-- |
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When Nature in her nakedness |
When Nature in her nakedness |
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Defeats us every time? |
Defeats us every time? |
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|'''[[Rudyard Kipling]]'''|''The Benefactors''}} |
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{{quote|''"The difference between reality and fiction? Fiction has to make sense."''|'''many people, including [[Tom Clancy]]'''}} |
{{quote|''"The difference between reality and fiction? Fiction has to make sense."''|'''many people, including [[Tom Clancy]]'''}} |
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Take a seat. |
Take a seat. |
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Take your life. |
Take your life. |
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Plot it out in black and white."'' |
Plot it out in black and white."'' |
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|'''John Mayer'''|''No Such Thing''}} |
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⚫ | {{quote|''"Stand at the window here. Was ever such a dreary, dismal, unprofitable world? See how the yellow fog swirls down the street and drifts across the dun-coloured houses. What could be more hopelessly prosaic and material? What is the use of having powers, Doctor, when one has no field upon which to exert them?"''|'''[[Sherlock Holmes]]''' |
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⚫ | {{quote|''"Stand at the window here. Was ever such a dreary, dismal, unprofitable world? See how the yellow fog swirls down the street and drifts across the dun-coloured houses. What could be more hopelessly prosaic and material? What is the use of having powers, Doctor, when one has no field upon which to exert them?"''|'''[[Sherlock Holmes]]'''|''The Sign of the Four''}} |
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{{quote|''"Life isn't bliss. |
{{quote|''"Life isn't bliss. |
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It's living. |
It's living. |
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You gotta go on living. |
You gotta go on living. |
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So one of us is living."'' |
So one of us is living."'' |
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|'''Spike'''|''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'', "[[Musical Episode|Once More, With Feeling]]"}} |
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{{quote|''"Reality is a cruel and unintuitive place with frustrating gameplay mechanics. |
{{quote|''"Reality is a cruel and unintuitive place with frustrating gameplay mechanics. |
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[[Press X to Not Die|(Press X to thanklessly toil your life away)]]"'' |
[[Press X to Not Die|(Press X to thanklessly toil your life away)]]"'' |
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|'''[[Ben Croshaw|Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw]]'''}} |
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|'''Marvin the Paranoid Android'''|''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]]''}} |
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⚫ | {{quote|''"I don't like the real world. I have to live there, and it ''sucks''. [[Real Is Brown|It's drab,]] [[Crapsack World|it's dingy,]] [[Sturgeon's Law|quality control is a fucking joke]], [[Pettanko|A-cups are far too prevalent,]] [[I Want My Jetpack|nobody can fly]] '''[[Everything's Better with Dinosaurs|and all the dinosaurs are dead!]]'''"'' |
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|'''[[Moviebob|The Game Overthinker]]'''|"''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v{{=}}5k5l223D7aM Reality Sucks]''"}} |
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⚫ | {{quote|''"I don't like the real world. I have to live there, and it ''sucks''. [[Real Is Brown|It's drab,]] [[Crapsack World|it's dingy,]] [[Sturgeon's Law|quality control is a fucking joke]], [[Pettanko|A-cups are far too prevalent,]] [[I Want My Jetpack|nobody can fly]] '''[[Everything's Better with Dinosaurs|and all the dinosaurs are dead!]]'''"'' |
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Revision as of 13:05, 8 March 2023
All the world's a stage, —Jaques, As You Like It Act II, Scene VII, lines 139-166
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Ah! What avails the classic bent —Rudyard Kipling, The Benefactors
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"The difference between reality and fiction? Fiction has to make sense."
—many people, including Tom Clancy
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"Life isn't divided into genres. It's a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky."
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"Welcome to the real world, she said to me. —John Mayer, No Such Thing
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"Stand at the window here. Was ever such a dreary, dismal, unprofitable world? See how the yellow fog swirls down the street and drifts across the dun-coloured houses. What could be more hopelessly prosaic and material? What is the use of having powers, Doctor, when one has no field upon which to exert them?"
—Sherlock Holmes, The Sign of the Four
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"Life isn't bliss. —Spike, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, "Once More, With Feeling"
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"Reality is a cruel and unintuitive place with frustrating gameplay mechanics. |
"Life. Loathe it or ignore it, you can't like it." —Marvin the Paranoid Android, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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"I don't like the real world. I have to live there, and it sucks. It's drab, it's dingy, quality control is a fucking joke, A-cups are far too prevalent, nobody can fly and all the dinosaurs are dead!" |