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Matthew Jordan’s review of Games: Agency as Art
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5/5: This book took the glasses I use to look at the world, slapped them off my face, stomped on them until every piece of glass was a grain of sand, then gave me a new pair of glasses that I much prefer and have been unable to remove ever since. It’s a book about the following ideas: games, agency, goals, certainty, values, and, uh, the meaning of life. It’s really really freaking good. It also has a ton of typos, but that’s beside the point. I would summarize the arguments I took away from Games in one paragraph like this: when we play games, we get to try on new ways of thinking, acting, and...
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