Moff's Law/Quotes

""...I think this is a kind of catharsis. We generally want stories to make sense, and if we can’t make the story coherent then at least we can can gather up all the problems and catalog them in an orderly fashion, dangit!""

- Shamus Young, discussing Mass Effect 2

""It's not over-analysis when every stray thought about the film has to be quashed lest you realize how stupid the movie is.""

- Howard Tayler, Twitter

""As someone who has helped others with their writing, I'm often amazed at how much detail some writers insist on giving about trivial features of their characters, and how disinterested they are in sticking to them. Or maybe they don't realize that "Watchful eyes the shade of distant mountains" is not the same as "Mercurial irises as black and mysterious as the dark side of the moon." ""

- Response to a dismissal of the importance of Internal Consistency

""There's Suspension Of Disbelief and then there's insulting my fucking intelligence.""

- The Spoony One on the Wing Commander movie

"Poster: "The simple question is: did you have fun playing?" Other poster: "The question, from a designer perspective, is never "did I have fun?". The question is, "Could this experience have been improved?". It is important with any work of media to ask, "What worked, and what didn't? How do the elements of this work combine to create a greater whole, and what elements feel out of place or dissonant?". (...) I am capable of enjoying an experience while thinking that it could be better.""

- WarCraft: Technology and Setting, Space Battles