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You Have No Idea How Hard It Is To Run A Sweatshop, Part 2

Designer Notes

Well, one part of the appeal of games is that they can theoretically simulate the real world and teach us about it, that we can make choices and see those choices be modelled accurately. But, to use just this one specific example, how could a game written before McCracken’s insight on pitching have any claim to accurately model baseball?

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Zugzwang as a pole dance upward unto heaven

Radiator Blog

This points to a general problem with treating sexual moods like immutable video game character classes. So in hindsight, a better game design analogy for sexual roles would've been "stances" or "buffs" that freely change and/or stack. Cops are just like the rest of us, except they have their sexuality set to "cop."

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