One of the most visible papers I’ve ever wrote as an academic came out of WoW, and gaming (both video games and tabletop) have been immensely helpful in thinking about simulation-based approaches to science - as well as developing a vocabulary for talking about it.
Let’s talk about the nice things that video games do. Tell me a story about how much a video game means to you, how it changed your life, developed your hobby, built a friendship, etc.
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If by chance you mean the paper related to the 'virus' that spread in WoW, I do believe I've seen that!
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What game was that?
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I created a worldwide documentary on video games in 2015. Gamers submitted stories about their favourite game and why it means so much to them. It’s the moving moving video I’ve ever created.https://youtu.be/k3xLgtD5bPQ
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Oooh, that sounds amazing, I'll have to watch this!
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I hit a real low in 2013. No money, properly poverty-stricken broke, mental health struggles I didn't understand, a difficult LDR, the endless banality of unemployment, family problems. Then there was Red Dead Redemption...
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It sounds stupid, but it was the little things that stopped me attempting to take my life that year. One being that I needed to see how the story of the game ended. I was so involved with it, it was one of several things that distracted me enough in the moment.
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The Pokémon franchise as a whole as done so much for me over the years and I owe a lot to the series. FireRed was my very first game. I played it for weeks and have replayed it several times in the years since.
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I’ve played every Gen since 3 and loved many of the side games. The Mystery Dungeon games, Rescue Team and Explorers in particular, are some of my favorite games of all time Even in the Games I didn’t love as much, I always found something to keep my playing until the end
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