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A blog devoted to looking at games a little more closely.
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The Stories of Ownership and Wealth in Games
The NFT craze a few years back gave rise to a lot of narratives about things like owning items and making money. These narratives were appealing, but hollow, as their real purpose was to sell a technology. I take those stories and break them apart to help illustrate how we can be more skeptical of…
A Brief Return: What’s New and What’s Happening
This post serves as an update on the status of this blog, a table of contents for various new essays coming out at the same time, and an announcement of some planned projects.
Re-Rolling the Dice
I believe in sitting down to explore your own feelings on a game, both good and bad. In this essay I do just that with Baldur’s Gate 3 to examine my own dislike of it and how the game’s mechanics meshed poorly with how I personally approach games.
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