Wednesday, September 4, 2019

Eurogamer.net: September 04, 2019 at 07:00AM - The romance of Johto's shores and Friedrich's Wanderer

Someone has tweeted a screenshot from Pokémon and it's all I can think about.

Actually it's two things they've tweeted. On the left, the screenshot: Ethan, a tiny little pixel boy, is standing on the jagged, squared-off staircase shore of an island looking out across the ocean. On the right, Wanderer above the Sea of Fog.

Now, I know what you're going to say: do not explain the tweet. And I know! I know you're not supposed to explain the tweet. I know the power of a tweet, especially this one but actually any one, is that it stands alone amidst the void; that a tweet is good if and only if it is pithy and silent in a sea of noise; that the more you talk about a tweet or comment on it, or try to intellectualise it in any which way, the worse it gets. I know all this! I just can't help it.

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