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This game's stupid," said Lief. "Who the heck is Zelda, anyway?
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Neal Shusterman (Everlost (The Skinjacker Trilogy, #1))
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I still know in my heart that it is a Godless, dirty game; that love is bitter and all there is, and that the rest is for the emotional beggars of the earth and is about the equivalent of people who stimulate themselves with dirty post cards-
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Zelda Fitzgerald
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You've met with a terrible fate, haven't you?
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Happy Mask Salesman
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The rising sun will eventually set,
A newborn's life will fade.
From sun to moon, moon to sun,
Give peaceful rest to the living dead.
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Sun's Song Inscription
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the bird stаtυe checkpοint lаbeled Fοrest Temple. Wаlk υp the pаthwаy tο the dοοr аnd shοοt the pink diаmοnd switch аbονe it, then enter the temple. e. Skyνiew Temple
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1UP Guides (The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword Strategy Guide & Game Walkthrough – Cheats, Tips, Tricks, AND MORE!)
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That Continuity can just take Janus and Chang’s research and just… I don’t know, ‘snap it together’ like the Triforce and magically have the cure?” “Triforce?” “Seriously?” “What?” “From Zelda,” David said. “You know, Link collects the Triforce to rescue Princess Zelda and save Hyrule.” “I never saw it.” “It’s uh… a video game, not a movie.” How can she not know this?
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A.G. Riddle (The Atlantis Plague (The Origin Mystery, #2))
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Triforce?” “Seriously?” “What?” “From Zelda,” David said. “You know, Link collects the Triforce to rescue Princess Zelda and save Hyrule.” “I never saw it.” “It’s uh… a video game, not a movie.” How can she not know this? That was more shocking to David than Martin’s code.
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A.G. Riddle (The Atlantis Plague (The Origin Mystery, #2))
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I played Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time and recognized myself for the first time in the game’s wordless, androgynous protagonist Link. He didn’t speak, and didn’t belong in the community of childlike elves he’d been raised in. His difference was what marked him as special and destined to save the world. Link was brave, strong, and softly pretty, all at the same time. He was clueless and ineffectual in most social situations, but that didn’t keep him from doing important things or from being met with gratitude and affection everywhere he went. I loved absolutely everything about Link, and modeled my own style after him for many years.
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Devon Price (Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity)
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But Zelda was never about plot. Indeed, one's head could explode if all the games were considered one story, since Link is always meeting Zelda and villainous Gannon for the first time. Imagine trying to explain why James Bond has stayed forty years old for forty years, while changing faces and hair color. Better to accept the story as a constant retelling, and don't dwell on continuity matters. Mario has made a cottage industry of jokes about how Bowser had only one playbook—kidnap the princess—and this time it'll work! He's utterly incapable of coming up with any other plan. Aside from that one time he obtained a degree in hotel management.
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Jeff Ryan (Super Mario: How Nintendo Conquered America)
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To an economist, the strategy is obvious. Since even a penny is more valuable than nothing, it makes sense for Zelda to accept an offer as low as a penny—and, therefore, it makes sense for Annika to offer just a penny, keeping $19.99 for herself. But, economists be damned, that’s not how normal people played the game. The Zeldas usually rejected offers below $3. They were apparently so disgusted by a lowball offer that they were willing to pay to express their disgust. Not that lowball offers happened very often. On average, the Annikas offered the Zeldas more than $6. Given how the game works, an offer this large was clearly meant to ward off rejection. But still, an average of $6—almost a third of the total amount—seemed pretty generous. Does that make it altruism? Maybe, but probably not. The Ultimatum player making the offer has something to gain—the avoidance of rejection—by giving more generously. As often happens in the real world, seemingly kind behaviors in Ultimatum are inextricably tied in with potentially selfish motivations.
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Steven D. Levitt (SuperFreakonomics, Illustrated edition: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance)
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All of the top Roblox games, such as Adopt Me!, Tower of Hell, and Meep City, come from independent developers with little to no prior experience and staffs of 10 to 30 (having started with one or two). To date, these titles have been played 15 to 30 billion times each. In a single day, they’ll reach half as many players as Fortnite or Call of Duty—and half as many as titles like The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild or The Last of Us do in their lifetimes. And as for populating the platform with a wide range of virtual objects? 25 million items were made in 2021 alone, with 5.8 billion being earned or bought.
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Matthew Ball (The Metaverse: And How It Will Revolutionize Everything)
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The Zelda games in order are Legend of Zelda, Zelda 2: The Adventure of Link, A Link To The Past, Link’s Awakening, Ocarina of Time, Majora’s Mask, Oracle of Seasons, Oracle of Ages, Wind Waker, Four Swords, The Minish Cap, Twilight Princess. She pours another glass and then drinks it all as Michael and Nicole watch in silence. ZOE Phantom Hourglass, Spirit Tracks, Skyward Sword, Link Between Worlds, TriForce Heroes, and of course Breath of The Wild which innovated and revitalized the series. FUCK! SHIT! FUCK!
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Max Landis (POLYBIUS: A Horror Play)
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One way to create a potion that completely refills your stamina is to mix one monster horn with four crickets. You can find crickets by cutting grass with your sword. Immediately after cutting the grass, repeatedly hit the A button.
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Mark Powers (The Unofficial Guide to Legend of Zelda, Breath of the Wild: 50 Tips and Tricks to Help You Find the Missing Link (50 Tips and Tricks - The Unofficial Video Game Guide Series))
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you go to the cabin near the Temple of Time, you will find an older man that lives inside. Read the book in the house containing a riddle about a meal that the man wants to cook. To solve the riddle, go outside and combine a Hyrule bass, spicy peppers, and uncooked meat in a skillet. Give him the meal, and he will give you cold-weather gear.
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Mark Powers (The Unofficial Guide to Legend of Zelda, Breath of the Wild: 50 Tips and Tricks to Help You Find the Missing Link (50 Tips and Tricks - The Unofficial Video Game Guide Series))
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If you come across a blue, glowing rabbit running in forested areas, shoot it with an arrow, and it will leave rupees everywhere. If you want even more rupees, quietly sneak up on it and hit it repeatedly with a weapon. It will give you more rupees than shooting it with an arrow. Breath of the Wild Tip 34 You can use Cryonis to cross large bodies of water and deadly swamps without exhausting your staminal. However, use caution when it is raining. The blocks will be extra slippery and may cause you to fall off.
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Mark Powers (The Unofficial Guide to Legend of Zelda, Breath of the Wild: 50 Tips and Tricks to Help You Find the Missing Link (50 Tips and Tricks - The Unofficial Video Game Guide Series))
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you see a shooting star after sunset, follow where it landed. Here you will find a star piece. Hurry, as they are challenging to get to before the sun rises, and they are lost forever. Although you can sell them for 300 rupees, it is recommended that you hold onto them as you can use them later in the game to upgrade your armor.
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Mark Powers (The Unofficial Guide to Legend of Zelda, Breath of the Wild: 50 Tips and Tricks to Help You Find the Missing Link (50 Tips and Tricks - The Unofficial Video Game Guide Series))
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Locating and unlocking a Great Fairy Fountain allows you to upgrade your gear. For each fountain that you unlock, you can upgrade your gear to another level. There are four fountains that you can unlock in the game.
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Mark Powers (The Unofficial Guide to Legend of Zelda, Breath of the Wild: 50 Tips and Tricks to Help You Find the Missing Link (50 Tips and Tricks - The Unofficial Video Game Guide Series))
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Zelda was created by Shigeru Miyamoto, a total genius of a game designer. I have found very few other action/rpg’s really match up to the immersive experience that the Zelda games offer.
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Aesop Rock
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We're strong for each other ! It's what women do!" said Zelda to Pearl
"He Counts Their Tears" by Mary Ann D'Alto
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Mary Ann D'Alto
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hit bοth with οne аttаck. If sο, gοοd fοr yου. Hаνe а cοοkie.
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1UP Guides (The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD Strategy Guide & Game Walkthrough – Cheats, Tips, Tricks AND MORE!)
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Maybe you're the kind of person who remembers which bush to burn in 'The Legend of Zelda' to find the labyrinth, or maybe you're the kind of person who remembers the score to some sports game years ago. Maybe you like to go around in a 'Star Trek' uniform, or you like to go around in a sports uniform. And I don't mean like a sports T-shirt, but the same jersey that the players in the game wear.
Whatever the case, maybe, somehow, in our own ways,
We're all nerds.
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James D. Rolfe
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Enter, therefore, a new and ingenious variant of Ultimatum, this one called Dictator. Once again, a small pool of money is divided between two people. But in this case, only one person gets to make a decision. (Thus the name: the “dictator” is the only player who matters.) The original Dictator experiment went like this. Annika was given $20 and told she could split the money with some anonymous Zelda in one of two ways: (1) right down the middle, with each person getting $10; or (2) with Annika keeping $18 and giving Zelda just $2. Dictator was brilliant in its simplicity. As a one-shot game between two anonymous parties, it seemed to strip out all the complicating factors of real-world altruism. Generosity could not be rewarded, nor could selfishness be punished, because the second player (the one who wasn’t the dictator) had no recourse to punish the dictator if the dictator acted selfishly. The anonymity, meanwhile, eliminated whatever personal feeling the donor might have for the recipient. The typical American, for instance, is bound to feel different toward the victims of Hurricane Katrina than the victims of a Chinese earthquake or an African drought. She is also likely to feel different about a hurricane victim and an AIDS victim. So the Dictator game seemed to go straight to the core of our altruistic impulse. How would you play it? Imagine that you’re the dictator, faced with the choice of giving away half of your $20 or giving just $2. The odds are you would . . . divide the money evenly. That’s what three of every four participants did in the first Dictator experiments. Amazing! Dictator and Ultimatum yielded such compelling results that the games soon caught fire in the academic community. They were conducted hundreds of times in myriad versions and settings, by economists as well as psychologists, sociologists, and anthropologists. In a landmark study published in book form as Foundations of Human Sociality, a group of preeminent scholars traveled the world to test altruism in fifteen small-scale societies, including Tanzanian hunter-gatherers, the Ache Indians of Paraguay, and Mongols and Kazakhs in western Mongolia. As it turns out, it didn’t matter if the experiment was run in western Mongolia or the South Side of Chicago: people gave. By now the game was usually configured so that the dictator could give any amount (from $0 to $20), rather than being limited to the original two options ($2 or $10). Under this construct, people gave on average about $4, or 20 percent of their money. The message couldn’t have been much clearer: human beings indeed seemed to be hardwired for altruism. Not only was this conclusion uplifting—at the very least, it seemed to indicate that Kitty Genovese’s neighbors were nothing but a nasty anomaly—but it rocked the very foundation of traditional economics. “Over the past decade,” Foundations of Human Sociality claimed, “research in experimental economics has emphatically falsified the textbook representation of Homo economicus.
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Steven D. Levitt (SuperFreakonomics, Illustrated edition: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance)
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There was a piece on the new Zelda, and I couldn't stop once I started.
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Daria Lavelle (Aftertaste)
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And this is Louie," Gabe said, pointing to a redheaded guy on a La-Z-Boy, sipping a purple smoothie with a giant straw, playing Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. "He works at Misi."
"Yo," he said, frantically tapping the controls, helping Link cook some mushrooms to restore his hearts.
"Hey," said Isabella, no stranger to the game. The last guy that she'd hooked up with had canceled their second date because he was deep inside a shrine.
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Adam D. Roberts (Food Person)
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I still know in my heart that it is a Godless, dirty game; that love is bitter and all there is, and that the rest is for the emotional beggars of the earth and is about the equivalent of people who stimulate themselves with dirty post-cards.
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Zelda Fitzgerald (Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda: The Love Letters of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald)
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Swimming across a placid lake, that's tiring. But swimming UP a waterfall, in defiance of GOD and NATURE itself... *trails off, point made*.
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Josh Rosenberg