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Who Are You Really Playing Against?

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Published on 06-28-2011 04:02 AM Number of Views: 2327

I’m not a particularly competitive man, but I love to complete. This apparent tautology is explained by the fact that I don’t much care if I win: what’s important is the journey toward someone winning, and the struggle to see who it is. I suspect ...

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Reviews: the Review

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Published on 06-07-2011 11:10 PM Number of Views: 1874

Reading reviews of games that I’ve already played is a highly entertaining exercise in comparative opinion-forming, but I also read a lot of reviews of games that I’m thinking about buying. This seems like a sensible and obvious idea to me but ...

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Sacred Cows

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Published on 05-23-2011 02:23 AM Number of Views: 2000

I’ve been doing this writing articles lark for a good few years now and, inevitably, as time has passed my I’ve increasingly found myself going back over old ground and either revising or clarifying my opinions on a variety of matters. That’s ...

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The Numbers Game

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Published on 05-09-2011 05:55 AM Number of Views: 1312

Everyone, everywhere in the world with the least exposure to modern media will, at some time or other, have engaged in a conversation along the lines of picking their top ten of something, or perhaps rating films, books or albums out of ten. ...

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