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  Techno-Occult: Transforming the Internet into a Monstrosity in Dot Hack

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  Anthony E Dominguez Department of Cinema Studies, New York University

  October 05, 2021

  Kite learns that the monster responsible is a rogue A.I. called “Skeith,” a name derived from the ... connectivity whilst simultaneously threatening to run amok by upending the divide between the real and virtual ...
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  Timing Effects in "Many Worlds Mario"

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  Christopher Hagenah UC Santa Barbara

  May 10, 2010

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  experience of the normative “video game level” by compressing each failed run with the one successful run, by ... a normal level run (e.g. 2 minutes).    Second, it represents two opposing time schemes converging into one ... run the many layers of code.   Just as the logic of  “Many Worlds Mario” compresses the 20 minutes of ...
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  "One Turn of One Game": On Chance, Variance, and Misplays

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  Adam Cottrel Georgia State University

  June 10, 2016

  off home run in baseball; it is something that happens rarely, and when it does it can provide some of ...
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  Ethical Empires

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  Fredrik Knudsen YouTube

  May 10, 2017

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  Ethical Empires Empire Management Fredrik Knudsen gaming Grand Strategy Moral Media Paradox Interactive Stellaris Curator's Note Empire management games, or “Grand Strategy” games as they are known, are notoriously impenetrable and cold. Most commonl ...
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  FarmVille: The Garden in the Machine

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  Ted Friedman Georgia State University

  December 08, 2010

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  FarmVille: The Garden in the Machine simulation postmodernism gaming farmville Facebook Curator's Note 57.6 million Facebook users play FarmVille. Granted, not all of them are people.  Two are my cats, Noisy and Pilot Squeaky. In FarmVille, it helps ...