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  Fair Play and Perverse Systems in Squid Game

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  Matt Knutson University of Central Oklahoma

  January 18, 2022

  and we offer them one last chance to fight on equal footing and win. But you have broken that ... have a 1/456 chance of winning (whatever “winning” might mean). The games of  Squid Game  offer what ...
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  Reimagining Play with Lewis Carroll’s Croquet

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  Doug Stark The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

  March 24, 2020

  dividing player actions or chance occurrences into gains or losses (and, ultimately, winning or losing), ...
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  Esports Was Always Physical: Or, Celebrating with firebathero

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  Will Partin University of North Carolina Chapel Hill

  January 15, 2019

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  match. Winning on StarCraft ’s biggest stage meant a post-game celebration like no other, and everyone in ...