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i think virginia lee burton understood this and bore witness in her lifepic.twitter.com/imKRfOXLFk
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a few more examples https://twitter.com/gaitanalyst/status/1395571650683363329 …
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i need to think more about the meaning of this but it made me think of "charity" --> "welfare state"https://twitter.com/MeFromBefore/status/1395571125577412611 …
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special effects for sure https://twitter.com/SlothRedux/status/1395572476848099330 …
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i will speak about WoW a little bit because it's more concrete the early game was kind of messy. stuff was clunky and unbalanced and inconvenient. doing anything took ages, travel was monstrous, and you had to put forth effort to find other players for dungeons and raids
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eventually the game became quite polished. all of the travel was boiled down, idiosyncrasies were filed off, classes became balanced (and a little homogenized). items were no longer specific treasures of fixed value but just "item of X level" basically
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today WoW is not at all clunky and not at all lovable
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I think something like a common theme here is the alienating nature of efficiency through homogenization or systematization; an excessive "reduction to numbers" and smoothing of a textured thing
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