Quotes / All Hail the Great God Mickey!

"It receives messages from the gods of old and sends them to the people of the present. The message from the gods comes every other weekend. Their words manifest through sacred sounds and appear in print upon white paper."

— Description of the "Voice from on High" (a fax machine), The Art of Splatoon

Just think. In two thousand years archaeologists will find this and have to draw a narrative to these images.

I believe they will find these images tell the story of how we, dogged by the "dragon" of global warming and impending nuclear war sealed ourselves up in these temples with our patron god of blessedness and safety who happens to be a half man-half raccoon Italian fellow. They'll claim that we regularly sacrificed virgins to this "Mare-ee-oh" in hopes that his favor would spare us from the nuclear dreadnought released by the "Koopa King", who may or may not have been a historical figure referred to as "Poo-Tahn".

Then they’ll uncover this grainy, ancient footage and will understand, finally, that He is — and was — in all of us.

—A commenter in Kotaku about a fallout shelter decorated with Super Mario Bros. characters (said footage refers to the American TV ad for Super Mario Bros. 3)

"The Holy Book says, 'acts of undue violence will be met with severe punishment, not limited to on the spot firing' from a cannon into the sun... Yes. That is what I had believed. I did not see any other way of firing. The glasses man told me that firing was simply to lose your job... it seems my misunderstandings were indeed vast..."

— Former Geegler President Larry, My Time at Sandrock