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But why would the alleged alt-right, alleged white supremist Tim Pool not wear a white beanie?

youre right!

Or, you could say that Richard Spencer is tim without his hat.

I think we're missing the key details that Alex Jones was trying to inform us about. Perhaps Tim Pool is just a crisis actor being paid by Richard Spencer to discredit the main stream media?

that's a conspiracy theory.

obvious cia op to obfuscate that tim is richard with no hat.

But if we're actually in a giant virtual simulation then it's really a...game theory.

simulation =/= game

just like stimulation =/= fun

But games aren't always fun either. Also, just because a simulation isn't a game and a game isn't fun doesn't mean that both can't have nuclear weapons.

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I like the Raph Koster theory of fun, that fun is the pleasurable experience of learning a game, when the game has become fully optimized, a solved problem, it stops being fun

Hmm, ya I don't agree with that.

I'll try to get a proper quote

pleasurable experience part I would agree with

rest of it not so much

It's often disagreed with anyway but I might have gotten it wrong

There is a degree of fun learning the game but that explaination doesn't seem to involve any competition against other players.

Other people make the problem harder to solve

Tic Tac Toe is a solved problem regardless of PvP

Depends on whether the game is good or not. If there is one simplistic tactic that is above all else and takes little thought then yeah I'll agree with it otherwise I disagree

well I think game would have to be defined so general that it becomes useless and redundant as any kind of descriptor.

It's also assuming that all gamers are the same and enjoy playing games for the same reason. I could see that idea being very true for a Johnny player, and some Spikes, but not many Timmys

Raph Koster ironically tends to make games a lot of people didn't like because they felt like jobs. Ultima Online, Star Wars Galaxies, etc

are we talking about games or fun?

or fun in games?

Spike/Johnny/Timmy theory of game design might hold up better in the real world.

But what of the Pools?

well fun is a pleasurable experience, but when a pleasurable experience becomes normalized it's no longer a pleasurable experience. So, a pleasurable experience has to be balanced with an unpleasurable experience.

Or different types of pleasurable experience, I suppose. But that's almost built to fail.

test

but if longevity isn't the goal...

anyone hear about the 8th grade boy getting arrested in colorado springs?

for being a boy?

almost

for being almost a boy?

just another #metoo casualty

no, i haven't.

Looking at it, I think I'm a somewhat calculated Johnny

no idea what you guys are talking about with the names.