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What Online Games Reveal About How Memory Actually Works
Players routinely memorise sprawling game maps, intricate systems, and long sequences without ever sitting down to study them,...
Dismissed for years as isolating, online gaming has turned out to be one of the more durable forms of social glue in modern life, holding together friendships across distance, bridging generations in a family, and giving people a shared...
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Players routinely memorise sprawling game maps, intricate systems, and long sequences without ever sitting down to study them,...
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Strip an online game down to its mechanics and what remains is a decision machine, a steady stream of choices with...
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The hardest part of any gathering of near strangers is the opening stretch, where everyone stands slightly too far apart and...
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Games are quietly built on an understanding of memory, because a design that asked players to remember too much, or too little,...
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A reader once wrote in describing her fourth failed sourdough starter in a row, each one bubbling happily for a few days before...
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