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Looking back at a pandemic simulator
It’s been six years now since the early days of the Covid pandemic. People who were paying super close attention started hearing rumors about something going on in China towards the end of 2019 — my earliest posts about it on Facebook were from November that year.
Even at the time, people were utterly clueless about the mathematics of how a highly infectious virus spread. I remember spending hours
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“That’s what games are, in the end. Teachers. Fun is just another word for learning.”
― A Theory Of Fun For Game Design
― A Theory Of Fun For Game Design
“Noise is any pattern we don't understand. [...] If we perceive something as noise, it's most likely a failure of ourselves, not a failure of the universe.”
― A Theory Of Fun For Game Design
― A Theory Of Fun For Game Design
“Consider the games that get all the attention lately: shooters,* fighting games,* and war games. They are not subtle about their love of power. The gap between these games and cops and robbers is small as far as the players are”
― Theory of Fun for Game Design
― Theory of Fun for Game Design
