of a high, gliding dribble and a man    letting the play develop in front of him in slow motion, almost exactly like a coach’s drawing on the blackboard

perfectly, gathering the orange leather    from the air like a cherished possession

The Detroit defenseman threw himself at Richard during a game in the 1945-46 season as Richard brought the puck into the Red Wings’ zone. Richard lowered his head and neck to buttress himself for the collision then straightened, with Seibert, draped atop his back. Richard carried the 200-pound defenseman to the net, deked the goaltender with one hand on his stick and flipped the puck into the far corner of the net.

Before each game, I think about my temper and how I should control it, but as soon as I get on the ice I forget all that.”

The next day, when Richard spotted McLean in the hotel lobby, he grabbed the referee by the throat, but his teammates managed to pull him away before he could harm McLean.

At times, he appeared superhuman. Like that night in December 1944 when he showed up at the Forum exhausted from moving furniture all day into his family’s new apartment — then scored five goals and added three assists, setting the NHL record for most points in a single game.

The punishment is worse for Richard. Udvari kicks him out of the game. The Canadiens trainer guides him off the ice. Thompson skates behind them, to make sure he actually leaves and does not turn back to fight some more. Richard presses a towel to the gash on his scalp, which will take five stiches to close. He clutches a stick in his right hand.

You’ve never seen a hockey player like Maurice Richard. Not Crosby. Not Gretzky. Not Orr, Beliveau, Howe. None of them had the talent, the intensity, the will to take over a game like Richard. And none of them meant to their fans what le Rocket meant to Canadien fans.

By 1955, Richard had scored more goals, 422, than anyone in the history of the NHL — 98 more than the next guy on the list. He had become the only player to score 50 goals in the 50-game season. He held the record for most goals in a playoff game, with five. Not only did he score often, he scored meaningful goals, when his team needed them the most, the game-winners in a record eight playoff games and more than 60 regular-season games

The Detroit defenseman threw himself at Richard during a game

French papers blamed Campbell for provoking the violence. Montreal Mayor Jean Drapeau also placed responsibility on Campbell. “He should have known that his presence at the game would have spurred some sort of protest or reaction,” Drapeau told the Ottawa Citizen.

RICHARD GOES INSANE

Richard knew his temper meant trouble but felt defenseless against it. “When I’m hit, I get mad and I don’t know what I do,” he confided in one writer. “Before each game, I think about my temper and how I should control it, but as soon as I get on the ice I forget all that.”

At times, he appeared superhuman. Like that night in December 1944 when he showed up at the Forum exhausted from moving furniture all day into his family’s new apartment — then scored five goals and added three assists, setting the NHL record for most points in a single game.

e had become the only player to score 50 goals in the 50-game season.

You’ve never seen a hockey player like Maurice Richard. Not Crosby. Not Gretzky. Not Orr, Beliveau, Howe. None of them had the talent, the intensity, the will to take over a game like Richard. And none of them meant to their fans what le Rocket meant to Canadien fans.

Reeve held Richard himself responsible: “Why should Richard, for whom the game is made to order, take tantrums like a spoiled child and incite a lot of crack-pots such as the tear-gas bomb thrower at the Forum and the fools who broke windows and took after streetcars last night in Montreal?”

Richard knew his temper meant trouble but felt defenseless against it. “When I’m hit, I get mad and I don’t know what I do,” he confided in one writer. “Before each game, I think about my temper and how I should control it, but as soon as I get on the ice I forget all that.”

In an era when the game was more violent than today’s version, when players did not wear helmets or mouth guards and when they jousted more frequently with their sticks,

He had started playing this game as a 4-year-old on the backyard rink his father Onésime, a machinist at the Canadian Pacific Railway, built for him. It was quickly apparent he could play in ways other boys could not. By the time he reached his teens, his skills were in such high demand he played as often as he could, sometimes four games in a weekend, using aliases to play for multiple teams, often against grown men. The oldest of eight children, he quit school at 16 to work with his father in the factory.

In the second period, the Canadiens’ star tripped Laycoe and sent him spinning across the ice but escaped a penalty. Richard was further aggravated by the fact his team was losing 4-1.

“When I’m hit, I get mad and I don’t know what I do,” he confided in one writer. “Before each game, I think about my temper and how I should control it, but as soon as I get on the ice I forget all that.”

100 billion garments are produced every year. Fast fashion plays a volume game. By producing a lot of cheap clothing, they encourage customers to shop often, but, 20% of items go unsold.

Sometimes, I would get up at 2am and sneak downstairs to my laptop to figure out which cool new plugins and mods we could add and combine without completely crashing the game. I sneaked because I was only allowed 45 minutes of computer time after school.

"You know, you have to suffer if you want to win. Jesus had to die and resurrect. That's the kind of thing we expect from our players. You must be ready to suffer in order to win or earn us some victory. You must risk everything and sweat and fight or be knocked out," he said.

Fans of the Montreal Canadiens pray that the sacrifices made on the ice of blood, sweat and tears will lead them to glory

thers include Denis Müller from the University of Lausanne in Switzerland and the University of Winnipeg's Tom Faulkner, author of More Than a Game, Less Than a God: Canadian Hockey.

"When we learned about the 100th anniversary, we thought it was a good time to talk about the relationship between sport and religion, especially between the Habs and the religious context in Montreal and in Quebec," Bauer said.

Fans of the Montreal Canadiens pray that the sacrifices made on the ice of blood, sweat and tears will lead them to glory.

"We don't just want to look at some games and drink beers. You have to work, but even if you're not a theologian student you can follow the class," he said, adding that those who don't believe the team is a religion can still earn high marks.

However, there is fatal flaw to this argument—as an overall macro strategyfor reducing poverty, it will be ineffective unless we also increase the overallquantity and quality of opportunities, particularly job opportunities, in society.In other words, by providing an individual with greater education, we havemade them more competitive in the job market, but only at the expense ofsomeone else. In this sense, the strategy is played as a zero-sum game.

The critical mistake that has been made in the past is that we have equatedthe question of who loses the game with the question of why the game produceslosers in the first place. They are, in fact, distinct and separate questions.

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Whenever he stormed a goaltender,Richard's glare could be seen from the top row of the Forum--andin taverns for hundreds of miles around, where the predominantlyFrench-speaking Quebecois listening to the game on the radio hada clear picture of the man whom newspapermen covering theCanadiens had raised to mythical status

The melee, which forced the game to be suspended, ushered in arevolution

An instant after the slap, Orlando spun the fan aroundand socked him in the jaw, scattering teeth like jujubes. Therewere shouts, invective, a rumbling in the Forum. The tear gascame 30 seconds later.

Montreal went nuts, both French and English, and with Detroit coming in for a St. Patrick's Day game at the Forum, revenge was on some fans' minds

Sticks were high, fists flew, blood often smeared the ice, and the owners thought this was all manly and a great way to sell tickets.

Out on the street, the largest riot since Conscription was passed in 1944 (bringing in the draft for the final year of the Second World War) broke out along a seven-block length of Rue Ste. Catherine, featuring overturned cars, smashed windows, a shot fired from somewhere and 137 arrests.

Montreal went nuts, both French and English, and with Detroit coming in for a St. Patrick's Day game at the Forum, revenge was on some fans' minds. However, nothing may have happened if Campbell hadn't made a tactical error — he showed up to the game (10 minutes late) with his secretary (future wife) and took his regular place.

Immersion, often described as the feeling of “being there”, is an experience that is commonin larps because of their embodied nature. This creates challenges and advantages for both theplay experience and game design (Säilä, 2004). For instance, immersion and rules often runcounter to each other because rules remind the player that what they are doing is not real (Cail-lois, 1961; Harviainen, 2012)

The empirical phenomena referred to as “role-playing games” are very heterogeneous, span-ning different socio-material assemblages: joint talk and paper inscriptions (TRPGs), jointembodiment (larp), and single (CRPG) and networked (MORPG) computing devices. Associo-material platforms, these gather different communities of practice: when people say“role-playing game”, they often do so within the context of the form (CRPG, TRPG, etc.)they were socialized in or that is salient in the current context of conversation

In 1974, a small company called Tactical Studies Rules, later known as TSR, published Dun-geons & Dragons (D&D, Gygax and Arneson 1974a). It was an unassuming box (containingthree slim booklets) whose cover described its contents as “Rules for Fantastical MedievalWargames Campaigns Playable with Paper and Pencil and Miniature Figures” (Gygax andArneson 1974b). The game was not only closely modeled on its ancestor – miniature wargam-ing (Peterson 2012) – but also labeled itself as such.

he grew tired of TED and, in 2001, sold it to Chris Anderson, a British media entrepreneur who made a fortune building websites (including the popular video game site IGN)

Then I remembered a little card game I came up with to make jam sessions more interesting: Have each band member list 10 musical acts they’d like to play in Write each musical act on an index card Shuffle the cards, and, without revealing the cars, deal one to each band member. Keep the cards secret — the game is no fun if you can see the cards before you play. Just like any other jam session, it helps to pick a key and start with the rhythm. Everyone has to pretend like they’re playing in the act written on their card. Jam until it gets boring. At the end, everybody gets to guess which card each person was dealt. Repeat until you’re out of cards

He is tied up in the game room, facingan old television set, above which is the taxidermied head of a large buck.Its appearance of life-in-death not only foreshadows Chris’s future state ifthe Armitages’ plot is carried off successfully, as a Black body occupied bywhite consciousness, but it also reverberates with characterizations of thehistorical devaluation of Black lives in Atlantic slavery, as socially deadnon-subjects

“If you reduce the price, then there’s no, or little, or less, incentive [for consumers] to participate in [the] illicit market because you’re getting the price that you want … that’s the tipping point.”

“I’m such a fan of hers, to see her with that big, tall body to be able to move the way she does. She’s changed the game of the W.N.B.A.,” he said.

only male athletes usually got to be in a previous era

She’ll enjoy life. And then we’ll see

she will participate in the balance beam final

If you could design a new social media site, what would you want to do that other social media sites do?

“My theory was that [the readers] just thought they cared about... the action; that really, although they didn’t know it, they cared very little about the action. The things that they really cared about, and that I cared about, were the creation of emotion through dialogue and description; the things they remembered, that haunted them, were not for example that a man got killed, but that in the moment of death he was trying to pick a paper clip up off the polished surface of a desk, and it kept slipping away from him, so that there was a look of strain of his face and his mouth was half opened in a kind of tormented grin, and the last thing in the world he thought about was death. He didn’t even hear death knock at the door. That damn paper clip kept slipping away from his fingers and he just wouldn’t push it to the edge of the desk and catch it as it fell.”

real life is full of tiny useless things (one might even say it’s what it’s all about).

But it’s easy to think otherwise, because “life is still quite shitty in Zaatari refugee camp” or “refugees in Zaatari still missing their homes” aren't exactly news (the camp has been there since 2012), and journalists need to find new angles to talk about it. To avoid this kind of pitfalls you need to always remain critical, even with the sources you trust.

when you are documenting for a project, that is exactly what you want to avoid. You don’t want your own ideas thrown back at you, you want to learn new things, find new point of views. In order to avoid what's called the confirmation bias, try using a search engine which doesn't doesn't track you instead.

recognize when someone is intentionally posting something bad or offensive (like the bad cooking videos we mentioned in the Virality chapter) in an attempt to get people to respond and spread their content. Then you can decide how you want to engage

Milwaukee Bucks refused to take the floor for their playoff game against the Orlando Magic.

We huddled around a quivering soy sauce dish to see it move through the Ouija board.

Authorities feared a sequel to Thursday night’s rampage at Saturday’s game against the Rangers. The police took “emergency measures” in advance to prevent that.

then scored five goals and added three assists, setting the NHL record for most points in a single game.

Some, though certainly not all, English-speaking writers, such as Ted Reeve of The Ottawa Citizen, exonerated Campbell for doing “his duty as he saw it and in the good heart of him, turned up at the match, full square, and faced the affronts of the half-wits, as a gentleman should … a big salute to the president.” Reeve held Richard himself responsible: “Why should Richard, for whom the game is made to order, take tantrums like a spoiled child and incite a lot of crack-pots such as the tear-gas bomb thrower at the Forum and the fools who broke windows and took after streetcars last night in Montreal?”

French papers blamed Campbell for provoking the violence. Montreal Mayor Jean Drapeau also placed responsibility on Campbell. “He should have known that his presence at the game would have spurred some sort of protest or reaction,” Drapeau told the Ottawa Citizen.

Opponents slung ethnic slurs

In the 1952 semifinals against the Bruins, Richard left the ice early in the third period to have a deep gash over his left eye bandaged. He returned late in the period, the game tied 1-1. With blood still spilling down his cheek, he took the puck at his own blue line and headed up ice.

So now, at 15:11 of the third period, when Laycoe confronts Richard, the crowd senses something bad about to happen — but it has no way of knowing how bad it is going to get.

Campbell fined the Habs’ star $250 and suspended him for Game 3 of the Stanley Cup finals, a loss.

“Bailey tried to gouge his [Richard’s] eyes out,” Red Storey, who refereed that game, later told a reporter, “Rocket just went berserk.”

The punishment is worse for Richard. Udvari kicks him out of the game.

"Charity has been the function of the church. Now it's the team who is taking charge of the social life, visiting children in hospitals, inviting children to see a game or giving money to charity… Does that mean they have kind of a religious role?" he asked.

Rocket broke his CCM stick over Laycoe's back.

A point that any historian should remem-ber is that any similar study is just like a chess game: It demands strategy, skills,patience and attacking your object from different angles

They say that, in the reign of Khusraw of the Immortal Soul, a chessgame (16 counters of emerald and 16 counters of red ruby) was sent byDewisharm, great ruler of the Indians, to test the intelligence and wisdomof the Iranians and to see to his own profit. ... In a letter had been written:“Since you are named the king of kings, as king of kings over us all, it isnecessary that your wise men be wiser than ours. [It is so] if you explain therationale of this chess; otherwise you send tribute [and] taxes!

Decoration of the game: Strongly related to the identification of the game is thepresentation of its decoration, both the decoration that is related to the gameplaybut also that which simply serves aesthetics or promotion purposes. In manyplaces and periods, game sets and equipment were not only meant as objects ofgameplay; particularly in the higher strata of the society, they were also elementsof the social apparatus of the household and as such they were media of social

This is a characteristic example of how the material side of games mightillustrate social, cultural and sociocultural priorities. Games, game pieces, gameequipment and game architecture could be very interesting sources of mate-rial history and equally valuable material sources of social and cultural history.Unfortunately, the material dimension of games has not been given the academicattention it deserves

Summing up, by reflecting on the original names of chess pieces and theirchanges in the medieval space-time, we realize that even if remaining for themost part the same, the game was changed from a military into a sociopoliticalsimulation. In medieval Europe, the political power was centralized in the handsof kings and queens, but the church and the army as institutions had a crucial,and sometimes vital, role to play.

sportswriters used to talk about how Larry Bird could look at a newspaper photograph from any game he’d played as a Boston Celtic and recall where everyone else had been on the court at that moment, knowledge that informed his play every time he brought the ball forward.

. Mayor Jean Drapeau telephoned Campbell at the NHL officein town and begged him not to attend the game that night. Theimperious Campbell not only ignored the mayor's advice but alsomade a diva's entrance at the Forum, ta

Fans heading to the Portugal-Ghana game would have been expecting a starring performance from Cristiano Ronald. And he duly delivered.Spectators witnessed history as the 37-year-old Ronaldo became the first man to score at five different Fifa World Cups as a 3-2 victory over Ghana gave the 2016 European champions the perfect start to this tournament.

I like triple entry stuff I'd Charles 00:05:33 purses thesis that all information is triadic symbols have to be linked to objects through interpret and human 00:05:46 interpret us others and the reason a I can do games so fantastically is this in game symbols and objects are the same so 00:05:59 the computer speeds can necessarily shuffle the symbols and the outcomes or the game but life isn't a game the map is not the territory and and the human 00:06:14 mind is central to the all creativity in the image of your Creator

In Crowther's view,on the other hand, the interactivity of games dissolves the line between author and audience; interactive arts are col-lectively authored by the game designer and the player, so they cannot have the traditional relationship of one personfilling a work with meaning and another retrieving that meaning. Lopes's view is an intermediate between the two. ForLopes, there is an authoritative relationship between the author and the audience. To experience the work, theaudience must follow the norms of appreciation. However, proper appreciation of an interactive artwork involvesexploring the space of possible interactions.

Films or books present that information in a fixed sequence. A gamedesigner distributes that information through space, and a player discovers it through temporally uncontrolled explo-ration. Jenkins dubs this form “narrative architecture” and compares game narrative to the environmental storytellingused by the architects of Disney World, where story elements are infused into particular locations and objects inphysical space (Henry, 2002

That is, video games are part of a special class of fiction in which, byinteracting with the game, the player makes things fictionally true of the player herself or himself, and not just theirin‐game avatar. For example, if Jane maneuvers her Spiderman avatar to defeat Galactus in a video game, then it isnot only fictionally true that Spiderman beat Galactus; it is fictionally true that Jane herself beat Galactus. Robsonand Meskin do not claim that their category is an exact match for video games—pure arcade games like Tetris arenot fictions in any sense, and wholly nontechnological artifacts like Choose Your Own Adventure novels also countas self‐involving interactive fictions.

important to the protection of opportunity, it is not the only good thatis important in this way. Many things affect and protect our exercisableopportunities – education, job training, job creation – even law and order.We must make reasonable decisions about how to support all these andother opportunity-promoting measures with the resources we have.Opportunity is also not the only important social good. Basic libertiesmust also be protected, including institutions that assure people that theycan effectively exercise them, especially their right of political participation.Further, opportunity is expanded as we increase societal wealth and knowl-edge. As a result, decisions about economic growth rates and social policiesthat affect them are tightly linked to decisions that affect the levels of healthneeds and the resources available to meet them. However important healthcare is, we must weigh it against other goods and other ways of promotingopportunity. Investing in health care has opportunity costs even though ithelps to promote opportunity.Even if setting limits is in general necessary, isn’t it unfair to limit meetinghealth needs as a result of avoidable waste or inefficiency or even profits?Creating losers unnecessarily surely seems unfair. For example, some pointto the fact of profit taking, and of marketing and other overhead costs inthe United States, as sources of unfair or unjustifiable limits on resources.2Some health plans in the United States, especially for-profit plans, spend asmuch as 25 to 30 percent of every premium dollar on nonmedical benefits.These dollars go to marketing, administrative costs, and returns to investors.If so much of their premium revenue is drained into costs that deliver nodirect benefit to patients, then how can we tolerate the limits these plans seton beneficial services? This complaint has great power and resonates withmany practitioners, who believe it gives them an excuse to “game the

Video Game Narrative: The Different Types and How-to Start Writing

Game Design Document Outline

When writing a story you must take all key elements into account in order to produce a story that will flow for the reader. Stories can be broken down into five key elements; the characters, the setting, the plot, the conflict and the resolution. Finding a prompt for what to write a story about can be very difficult. To help, the following link provides an activity to come up with some story ideas!

“In order to talk to each other, we have to have words, and that’s all right. It’s a good idea to try to see the difference, and it’s a good idea to know when we are teaching the tools of science, such as words, and when we are teaching science itself,” Feynman said.

The beginning of a novel is, variously, a social contract negotiation, an invitation to a dance, a list of rules of the game, and a fairly complex seduction.

The beginning of a novel is, variously, a social contract negotiation, an invitation to a dance, a list of rules of the game, and a fairly complex seduction.

parents

But here are three ways that we should think about addressing this issue:Start with parent training. Parents need to be made aware of the negative impact of the video games they may be letting their children play. I get that sometimes we need to occupy our kids, and it’s very tempting to hand them a phone. But we need to be better gatekeepers.It’s hard to change a behavior if you can’t first measure it. Use tools, such as Apple’s Screen Time or Google’s Digital Wellbeing, to create awareness of just how much time you or your children are spending on games — you’ll be surprised.Finally, strike a balance. Games can be fun, of course; we just need to find moderation. When I was growing up, my parents pushed me to eat more vegetables and fruits. With technology so integral to our lives, we need to treat digital wellness like physical wellness and make sure we encourage behavior that’s good for us.

For a long time, I didn’t see a problem. I saw our mission as bringing joy and entertainment to players. This changed when my two toddlers became old enough to take an interest in playing the very games I had built. Thinking about my games in my daughters’ hands, I had to confront what these products really were and what they could do. Knowing all the techniques with which we tried to bring about addiction, I realized I didn’t want my children exposed to that risk. My daughters are now 3 and 4 years old and I have yet to show them any of the games I have designed.

I don’t think parents are doing enough to protect kids from the potential harms of video games.

It's useful to distinguish, right off the bat, between "moderate" and "radical" longtermism. Moderate longtermism is what MacAskill defends in his book, while radical longtermism is what one finds in all the founding documents of the ideology, including multiple papers by Nick Bostrom and the PhD dissertation of Nick Beckstead. The latter is also what MacAskill claims he's most "sympathetic" with, and thinks is "probably right." Why, then, does MacAskill's book focus on the moderate version? As a previous Salon article of mine explains in detail, the answer is quite simply marketing. Radical longtermism is such an implausible view that trying to persuade the public that it's true would be a losing game. The marketing strategy was thus to present it in more moderate form, which Alexander Zaitchik of the New Republic aptly describes as a "gateway drug" to the more radical position

Muller brings is that idealizing metrics “works even less well in organizations in which employees areoriented to a more idealistic mission”, which is easily understandable to the context of games,themselves a mostly idealistic endeavor, intended primarily as an object of entertainment

An additional problem with Elo as a ranking system which researchers try to solve (Minka et al.;Delalleau et al.) is that it is essentially a system for one versus one matches, and it does not translate aswell for team based games

Elo is that in order toincrease your rating you not only have to get better yourself, but you have to do so faster than theaverage player, which likely only happens for the players that are really looking to improve in thegame. Therefore some games have different solutions on how to not make this completely transparentto players, and create convoluted points systems on top of the skill one to sort players ranking andincentivize players to play to increase their ranking (“Rank (League of Legends).”).

the game community alsopushes forward their own idea of what is the standard metagame

Consolegames, thus, by nature of their separation from an internet browser, had less success with the formingof player clans.

There are at least two kinds of fun: Type 1 fun is fun in the moment. Watching a movie, playing a video game, scrolling TikTok, reading a book. You want to have fun, you do the fun thing, and voilá, it is fun. Type 2 fun is fun in retrospect. Running a marathon is mostly un-fun from moment to moment; you’re often either zoned out or in some form of pain. But in retrospect, it was fun. 

Game & Watch games are even more “pick up and play” than your average arcade game and are generally about score. Nintendo also aggresively pursued licenses like Mickey Mouse and Snoopy, because of the higher resolution art that made possible. This was an early example of a Nintendo philosophy known as “lateral thinking with withered technology” which we see even today, where their console uses an older mobile system-on-a-chip to successfully compete with much higher-end consoles.

England’s players will take the knee before the start of their game against Iran on Monday but Harry Kane must decide whether to support LGBTQ+ rights by wearing the “OneLove” rainbow captain’s armband amid fears that the gesture could earn an instant booking.

monthly sales of video games were related to concurrent decreases in aggravated assaults and were unrelated to homicides. Searches for violent video game walkthroughs and guides were also related to decreases in aggravated assaults and homicides 2 months later. Finally, homicides tended to decrease in the months following the release of popular M-rated violent video games.

In a study of Norwegian teens, scoring high on a measure of video game “addiction” was linked to depression, but time spent on games was not.

I do believe you might be able to raise test scores by such means, but I also think that in doing so, you encourage, foster the idea of the opposition between play and learning.

be able to run entire virtual worlds like actually put in a game like Minecraft um I think this isn't normally a gif but a PDF doesn't support GIF yet so I won't 00:18:41 be able to see the GIF but imagine being able to have an entire virtual world like Minecraft and all of the interactions of the players in that speed being able to be tracked with the 00:18:53 hard verifiability of um of consensus in a blockchain setting so like that's where we're headed

Tommy took it upon himself to work 13 to 14-hour days and gradually wore himself down. He says: “At one point I was about six stone. I still have OCD and anxiety, I had clinical psychosis and all these conditions which I developed as a result of secondary and tertiary problems from neglecting my health. “The ironic thing is that you end up working less because you’re overworked.” The extra work resulted in Tommy fainting several times in his bedsit and not making it into work. The same “grim reaper” from HR visited Tommy’s house and found him looking “deathly ill” with yellow skin. “It turns out I had liver and heart failure,” he says. “I probably would be dead if they hadn’t come round and I hate to think that there are other people with a similar level of susceptibility. “When you’re quite single-minded and you only have one goal in your life, then anyone can get caught in that loop.” Although Tommy admits he must accept a bit of “mea culpa”, he would never recommend working for a big publisher under current working practices. “I have family that say, ‘your uncle Tommy works with games’ and I hear them say they want to get into it someday. “I want to tell them ‘I don’t want you to just about die from working there’. I had liver failure because I was malnourished. “I don’t want my nephew to go anywhere near the industry if that’s going to be the case but you want to think of better times ahead and you want to think the industry will eventually change.” Another former employee of a leading UK game studio faced similar working conditions. When helping to complete a game development in the run-up to Christmas last year, he received an email from the CEO of the company saying how “displeased” they were about the lack of attendance over the weekend. It prompted him to take his working week from 9-5, five days a week, to a six-day week at 7am to 9pm. “I would always come in one of the two days on the weekend, normally Saturday, so I could have Sundays with my wife,” he recalls. “It continued like this for two and a half months, even though my health was deteriorating.” According to the source, who wishes to remain anonymous, the employer created “incredibly stressful conditions” and “a climate that left workers constantly looking behind their back”. He was later diagnosed with Crohn’s disease, an inflammatory bowel condition where symptoms can be triggered by stress, and adds: “Obviously I have no proof that I got sick because of work but I strongly believe that I started getting symptoms because of the amount of hours and pressure I was put under.”

My experience of the gaming industry has been particularly bad,” he says. “The studio had us on very long hours, but we were always promised that if we do the long hours, we would rise quickly through the ranks. “I started to doubt myself at this point. I was working incredibly long hours and rarely going home but the idea harbours and festers that you could do better if you stayed a little bit longer. “At the time, I didn’t have a wife or any kind of dependency, so I was just staying longer and your team leaders would say, ‘great you’re doing fantastic, you’re the kind of person we want in this studio, you’re the kind of person that we need here’. “In the same vein, the people there who have families to go to and try to have social lives outside work would be getting death stares as they’re leaving.

More than 85% of employees in the industry attested to being asked to work beyond their contracted hours,

And then there is the general argument that violence is the specialty of the ruling class; they are better at it and better equipped for it; if you meet them on their own ground, in their own terms, playing the game by their rules, they are bound to win. For every idealist gunman you can recruit, they can pay and train a hundred unfortunate young men from the big unemployment pools of the North East or Clydeside. When it comes to the brute primitive business of who can kill most people, the rich are always going to win.

behavior of the rest of the group. Thus, our results show how gossip, when paired with a mechanism for partner selection, can foster and sustain high levels of coopera­tion even in noniterated interactions.Our results may seem at odds with research showing that gossip alone produces cooperation, because contri­butions in the gossip game gradually decreased. This past research, however, showed that the threat of gossip, relative to a control, deters selfish behavior, a finding our results replicated: Participants cooperated more in the gossip game than in the basic game. Gossip alone likely promotes cooperation because gossiping and knowing that others could gossip about you makes reputation salient, which tends to foster prosociality (Willer, Feinberg, Irwin, Schultz, & Simpson, 2010), and because defecting when future partners will know what you did will lead these partners to not cooperate with you, which reduces the incentive to defect in the first place. However, these forces, over the long run, were insufficient to main­tain high levels of cooperation. This may have been the case because exposure to gossip about a low contributor from a prior round also stimulates fears of exploitation, which could result in reduced contribution to avoid exploitation (Kuwabara, 2005).Our findings fit well with models of biological markets, which argue that individuals will choose partners based on others’ reputation or “market value” when partner selection is possible (Barclay, 2013; Noë & Hammerstein, 1995). As exemplified in the present research, reputational information obtained through gossip greatly expands the breadth of individuals’ knowledge of others’ past behavior. Further, models of biological markets contend that indi­viduals often compete to demonstrate their value as a part­ner. In the present research, because having the lowest market value of the group led to the highest likelihood of being ostracized, participants likely engaged in such “com­petitive altruism” (Roberts, 1998), vying to be more proso­cial than the other group members to avoid exclusion. In such a dynamic, the standard for avoiding ostracism escalates, which further explains why contributions con­tinually increased across the rounds of the gossip­with­ostracism game. Moreover, these competitive pressures to cooperate would likely have been even greater had we allowed group members not only to exclude individuals, but also to select partners for inclusion—an important topic for future research.Finally, our results add to the literature on how indi­viduals respond to ostracism. Whereas some research has shown that ostracized individuals respond to exclu­sion with decreased prosociality (e.g., Mulder, van Dijk, De Cremer, & Wilke, 2006; Twenge, Baumeister, DeWall, Ciarocco, & Bartels, 2007), our finding that ostracized individuals behaved as cooperatively as everyone else upon returning to their groups fits well with a social­dilemmas perspective of responses to ostracism (Balliet & Ferris, 2013; Joireman, Daniels, George­Falvy, & Kamdar, 2006). This perspective holds that after exclu­sion, individuals face competing incentives: They are tempted in the short run to respond negatively, possibly by behaving more selfishly out of spite. But, in the long run, they benefit most by conforming to group expecta­tions, especially when punishment has significant reper­cussions (Tenbrunsel & Messick, 1999; van Lange, Joireman, Parks, & van Dijk, 2013). In the present study, because ostracized participants faced heavy punishment—earning nothing at all—the dominant incentive was to withhold retaliation and, instead, cooperate.

ghest individual­level earnings by Round 5, omnibus F(2, 159) = 45.47, p < .001, η2 = .36, pairwise t(159)s > 4.36, ps < .001, ds > 0.69, and the highest group­level earnings by Round 6, omnibus F(2, 159) > 22.71, p < .001, η2 = .22, pairwise t(159)s > 2.41, ps < .05, ds > 0.38. Further, an examination of earnings in the gossip­with­ostracism game from the second round onward revealed a significant upward linear trend, Fs(1, 53) > 42.32, ps < .001, η2s > .44, which shows that earnings levels were increasing when the game concluded.

(gossip game: βs < −0.49, ps < .001, R2s > .23; gossip­with­ostracism game: βs < −0.24, ps < .001, R2s > .06),

Our central hypothesis was that groups in contexts that featured both gossip and a means for exclusion would achieve higher levels of cooperation. First, we compared the total amount participants contributed to their group fund, aggregated across all six rounds (possible range = 0 to 60 points) for each of the three experimental games. In the gossip­with­ostracism game, whenever partici­pants were ostracized, we coded their contribution for that round as zero. A within­subjects analysis of variance (ANOVA) yielded a significant omnibus difference across games, F(2, 430) = 249.89, p < .001, η2 = .54.1 Comparisons between games revealed that participants contributed significantly more when playing in the gossip game (M = 29.79, SD = 16.54) than they did when playing in the basic game (M = 17.54, SD = 16.28), F(1, 215) = 195.04, p < .001, η2 = .48. This finding captures the unique effect of having one’s behavior potentially communicated to future interaction partners (Barclay, 2004).More relevant to our hypothesis, further comparisons revealed that when participants played in the gossip­with­ostracism game (M = 42.89, SD = 14.79), they con­tributed significantly more than they did when playing in either the basic game, F(1, 215) = 417.06, p < .001, η2 = .66, or the gossip game, F(1, 215) = 110.80, p < .001, η2 = .34. Even in the first round, participants contributed sig­nificantly more when in the gossip­with­ostracism game (M = 6.80, SD = 3.17) than they did when in either the basic game (M = 4.91, SD = 3.56), F(1, 215) = 49.66, p < .001, η2 = .19, or the gossip game (M = 6.01, SD = 3.31), F(1, 215) = 8.83, p < .01, η2 = .04, which suggests that simply knowing about the potential to be gossiped about and ostracized by future group members was enough to engender an increase in cooperation. Importantly, we found differences in total contributions across the six rounds between the gossip­with­ostracism game and the two other games, even though in 15% of the rounds of the gossip­with­ostracism game, partici­pants were excluded and could not contribute anything. This result points to the significant role gossip plays in fostering cooperation, especially when it can be used for partner­selection purposes.To analyze whether contributions tended to increase or decrease as rounds progressed, we conducted a two­way within­subjects Game × Round Number ANOVA. This analysis yielded a significant omnibus interaction, F(10, 2150) = 22.92, p < .001, ηp2 = .10. Analyses examining potential linear­trend differences across the six rounds for each game revealed significant differences between the gossip­with­ostracism game and both the basic game, F(1, 215) = 132.91, p < .001, ηp2 = .38, and the gossip game, F(1, 215) = 62.34, p < .001, ηp2 = .23. Additionally, there was a significant linear­trend difference between the basic game and the gossip game, F(1, 215) = 10.23, p < .01. ηp2 = .05. Separate within­game linear­trend analyses revealed that there was a decrease in contributions as rounds pro­gressed in both the basic game, F(1, 215) = 162.43, p < .001, ηp2 = .43, and the gossip game, F(1, 215) = 54.44, p < .001, ηp2 = .20, a common finding in public­goods studies (Ledyard, 1995). In the gossip­with­ostracism game, however, contributions increased as rounds pro­gressed, F(1, 215) = 15.29, p < .001, ηp2 = .07 (Fig. 2).

Overall, participants played 18 total rounds of the public­goods exercise—six rounds for each game (see Fig. 1). Once participants completed the final round of the last game, the experimenter informed them that the study was over. The experimenter then debriefed the par­ticipants, paid them the amount of money they had earned, and dismissed them from the study.

BasicGossipGossip With OstracismRound 1Round 2ContributeResultsContributeResultsNote OpportunityContributeResultsNote OpportunityContributeResultsContributeResultsNote OpportunityReceive Note(s)Vote to ExcludeReceive Note(s)SelfExcludedOtherExcludedNo OneExcludedPlay With2 OthersNoPlayPlay WithAll 3Note OpportunityResultsRounds3, 4, 5, 6Fig. 1.Schematic showing the timeline of the experimental procedure. In the basic game, all partici­pants received an allotment of 10 points at the beginning of each round and determined how many of the points they wished to contribute to a group fund and how many they wished to keep for them­selves. At the end of each round, the 4 participants in each group learned how much each member had contributed and earned. Participants were then assigned to a new group and the process was repeated. In the gossip game and the gossip­with­ostracism game, after learning the results of each round, partici­pants were given the opportunity to send a note to the upcoming game partners of 1 of the participants they just played the game with. At the beginning of each round in the gossip­with­ostracism game, after receiving the gossip notes (if any were sent), participants could anonymously vote to exclude 1 participant from playing in the upcoming round; if a participant was excluded by receiving two or more exclusion votes, the remaining 3 participants played without him or her.

ch participant received an allot­ment of 10 points at the beginning of each round of the exercise. Each point was worth 2.5¢. All 4 participants then determined how many of their 10 points they wished to contribute to a group fund and how many they wished to keep for themselves. Whatever number of points all 4 participants contributed to the group fund as a whole was then doubled and redistributed equally to each group member. Researchers commonly use this public­goods exercise to examine social dilemmas because indi­vidual participants will benefit the most by selfishly free riding off of everyone else’s contributions while contrib­uting nothing themselves

Often he was a knight bestride a fiery charger prancing down the white shell road that led to distant lands.

With enough repetition, every game will degrade to its geometric average

As Beschizza said …“I wanted something where people could publish their thoughts without any false game of social manipulation, one-upmanship, and favor-trading.”It was, as I called it, “antiviral design”.

If you are running your own site and suddenly realize you have a moderation problem you might have some of your current staff

Once upon a time, I worked at a magazine, reporting to a white woman who, early in our working relationship, told me that she didn’t consider me a threat because “a black woman will never have this job.”She then proceeded to use every one of my ideas to completely redesign the magazine we worked for. It was the end of a moment in publishing when such a thing as a “big magazine job” still existed. I hung on because I really wanted to be an editor in chief one day and knew that quitting would take me out of the game.

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In his videos, Mr. de Hek treats all of these and other twists in the Hyper plot with a light touch, one befitting a farce. That’s especially true when the topic is Mr. H, a figure who now appears on HyperNation videos as some kind of spokesman, wearing a gold mask and a black hoodie and uttering slogans — “HyperNation will be an equal, fair and transparent platform that can solve the pain points of today’s society” — in a variety of slick studio settings. It’s like getting lectured about utopia from a character in “Squid Game.”

There isno back-door path through Q, as you can see. But there is a non-causal path from Q to Wthrough U: Q → E ← U → W.

A growing body of research is showing the flip side, though – video games can help people see better, learn more quickly, develop greater mental focus, become more spatially aware, estimate more accurately, and multitask more effectively. Some video games can even make young people more empathetic, helpful and sharing

We have had a team of 12, including some of the best game designers in the country, working on these games for a year,” he says. “I believe you can have fun and have beneficial effects at the same time."

Bavelier and Green asked non-gamers to play the first-person shooter game Medal of Honor for one hour a day for 10 days, and found their ability to focus on environmental cues improved much more than those in a control group who played the classic puzzle game Tetris.

“If I could sum up Worldbuildr in a succinct way, I would say that we’re trying to be Roblox Pro. We are a professional design tool for experiences, but still with an intuitive user interface. It’s more like playing a video game than using an advanced piece of software, so anyone can do it.

Early this week, I realised that some people had cross-posted my Mastodon post into Twitter. Someone else had posted a screenshot of it on Twitter. Nobody thought to ask if I wanted that.

Like when you're sitting in a quiet carriage softly chatting with a couple of friends and then an entire platform of football fans get on at Jolimont Station after their team lost. They don't usually catch trains and don't know the protocol. They assume everyone on the train was at the game or at least follows football. They crowd the doors and complain about the seat configuration.

There’s been a lot of buzz about whether video games are habit-forming, and whether parents are exaggerating when they say their teenagers are “addicted” to game playing. Now new research on children who are heavy gamers suggests parents may have something else to worry about: depression.

Many teenagers experience mental health problems and can benefit from psychological or medical help, Mr. Hewitt said, but added, “Why point out their game playing?”

Two recent studies of gamers are among the first to follow large groups of teenagers over time to assess their mental health and how much time they spend playing video games.

There’s been a lot of buzz about whether video games are habit-forming, and whether parents are exaggerating when they say their teenagers are “addicted” to game playing.

Children who were more impulsive and less comfortable with other children spent more time playing video games, the study found.

Young people who were more impulsive, more socially inept and less empathetic to begin with were more likely to become excessive video game players

I could not resist the temptation of mystifying him a bit

At four, Mozart would bang on piano keys and burst into laughter when he managed to find a chord.His father turned his love into a game. He would challenge him to play in time and read music. By the age of five, Mozart was composing his first pieces.The entire family traveled together (two siblings, both homeschooled), showing off Mozart's skills and meeting the greatest musicians of the time, including Bach. By the age of 14, Mozart was employed as a court musician.Of course, Mozart goes on to change the world of music forever.

And Minnesota lottery officials had hoped to launch a pilot project that would have let people purchase lottery tickets through through Nintendo units in their homes.Nintendo decks, estimated to be in 32 percent of Minnesota homes, would have been equipped with special lottery cartridges and a telephone modem. But the idea was abandoned after vocal protests from several powerful state legislators.''Intruding into people`s homes and converting a game which is immensely popular with young children into a gambling tool is not only unethical, but insidiously destructive to society,'' state Senate Majority Leader Roger Moe told reporters in St. Paul when the idea was floated in September.

At each of these junctures, history was a zero-sum game of heroes and villains viewed through the prism of contemporary racial identity.

2000 - Nintendo agrees to supply protective sports gloves to American owners of the Mario Party video game for the Nintendo 64. The Attorney General's office of New York had complained to the company after hearing many reports about children being injured playing the game.

Llewelyn described the gloves as "similar to weight-lifting gloves" with padded palms. The Attorney General's office estimated the cost per user could be as much as $18.

Nintendo will provide each family with up to four gloves as part of the settlement. In addition to the cost of the gloves, Nintendo has also agreed to pay for the state's legal fees, totaling about $75,000.

While no case was actually filed, the New York attorney general's office has received almost 100 complaints from consumers whose children had sustained hand wounds from playing any of five different levels of the Nintendo 64 game. The injuries ranged from friction burns and blisters to lacerations and punctures.

"This settlement is good news for the parents throughout the nation," said New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer. "Nintendo has agreed to take responsibility for the effect of its games on young people."

Video game maker Nintendo of America Inc. agreed on Thursday to provide protective gloves to approximately 1.2 million children who play the game Mario Party. The agreement is part of a settlement with the New York state attorney general's office and could cost Nintendo (ntdoy) up to $80 million.

Beth Llewelyn, a spokeswomen for Nintendo at the time, stressed that the total cost to the company will more than likely be much less then $80 million USD. “We have had only 90 or so complaints in the year that the game has been on the market,” she said. “We don’t know how many people are going to take advantage of the offer.”

As of December 1999, about 1.15 million copies of "Mario Party" had been sold in the United States, according to the AG's office, which estimated the offer could cost Nintendo $80 million if every consumer takes advantage of it. The actual cost is expected to be much lower, however, as fewer than 100 parents have complained directly to Nintendo since the game went on the market a year ago.

"The alarming thing was how little time some of these children spent playing the game before they were injured," Pritchard said. "One parent said their child had been playing the game for 15 to 20 minutes when they got a second-degree burn."

We write the endings so that everything wraps up tidily in the end, you see. The choices make a small impact—maybe making things a little easier, or a little harder. However, there is one really big choice to make. We did our best to make it as big as possible. (laughs) I think it will get players' chests pounding.

We had just ported DQI&II to the SFC, and for the first time in quite awhile, I got to play DQII again. I thought it was fun how many different places you have access to. That's why, for DQVI I suggested we craft a world that, while still retaining a dramatic story, allowed higher degree of player freedom and let you do things in the order you wanted.

trying to avoid contradictions with these two opposing goals was tough.

The novelist and screenwriter Raymond Chandler said he avoided reading books written by someone who didn’t “take the pains” to write out the words. (It used to be common for writers to dictate into a recorder then have an assistant transcribe those words.) “You have to have that mechanical resistance,” Chandler wrote in a 1949 letter to actor/writer Alex Barris. “When you have to use your energy to put those words down, you are more apt to make them count.”

“People always say of great athletes that they have a sixth sense,” Malcolm Gladwell says in Miracle and Wonder: Conversations with Paul Simon. “But it’s not a sixth sense. It’s memory.” Gladwell then analogizes James’ exacting memory to Simon’s. In the way James has precise recall of basketball game situations, Simon has it of sounds and songs. “Simon’s memory is prodigious,” Gladwell says. “There were thousands of songs in his head. And thousands more bits of songs—components—which appeared to have been broken down and stacked like cordwood in his imagination.”

Dull roots with spring rain. Winter kept us warm, covering

That was a perfect game in Game 5 in 1956, when catcher Yogi Berra famously leaped into his arms to celebrate. Wednesday, Houston catcher Christian Vázquez had his choice of pitchers with whom to celebrate.

Astros Combine for Second No-Hitter in World Series History

Cristian Javier

Astros for a 5-0, World Series-tying win in a Game 4 classic.

The way Javier was pitching, that was all Houston needed.

Though Alvarado jumped ahead of the next hitter, putting Alex Bregman into an 0 and 2 hole, Bregman fought back by belting a two-run double to push Houston’s lead to 3-0. Kyle Tucker’s sacrifice fly and Yuli Gurriel’s R.B.I. single extended it to 5-0.

Astros hitters continued spinning the combination lock that was their offense until the right numbers appeared

But one too many losses and, suddenly, the nights turn restless and the days jittery.

Only Don Larsen of the Yankees has ever thrown a solo no hitter in the World Series

lifted the Astros into the history books

throwing six no-hit innings at Philadelphia to start the first combined no-hitter in World Series history.

Cristian Javier put on a clinic

Pitching like a Game 1 starter,

Javier started hot and turned blazing as his pitches piled up.

Your career path is planned from the top. If something is not within your title responsibilities you won’t get the opportunity to pursue it. Or if you are, you won’t get much credit for it.

this game really needs to go free-to-play (just for the battle royale mode) in order to not be immediately DOA. the fact that even during a free weekend on launch day lobbies are still barely filling up is very concerning for this game's future.

For the theologian puzzlers, the starting rules of the game were, “Fact: the Earth began 6,000 years ago and there was at one point an Earth-sweeping flood,” and their puzzling took place strictly within that context. But the scientists started the game with no rules at all. The puzzle was a blank slate where any observations and measurements they found were welcome.

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It’s also a deeply unfair game, which is of course the point, and a game you do not win so much as survive.

GamerGate,” the culture war that continues to rage within the world of video games, is the game that touched it off.

There have been a lot of calls for action. Now it is a waiting game to see if changes will be implemented.

We're told Takeoff and Quavo were there playing dice when an altercation broke out and that's when someone opened fire, shooting Takeoff ... either in the head or near his head. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

Users can also create intentionally bad or offensive content in an attempt to make it go viral

Philadelphia Flyers coach John Tortorella had just gotten out of his car at the adjacent Wells Fargo Center when the Phillies broke loose in a playoff game."It was shaking over where I was. That was pretty cool," Tortorella said. "That's what I love about being here."

Noah Syndergaard

His last start came on Oct. 15 in the NL Division Series against Atlanta when he gave up one run in three innings.

going to a Major League Baseball game is the perfect way to glimpse a slice of Americana.