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The big idea: how games can change your life(www.theguardian.com)

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🇨🇦🇩🇪🇨🇳张殿李🇨🇳🇩🇪🇨🇦@ttrpg.network
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Wait, there’s people who think games should be used to train our brains/hone skills/do whatever else late stage capitalism demands of us?!

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There’s also people who think games can be used to strategize real life warfare, People Make Games published this really good documentary about the military using board games: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYaDXZ2MI-k

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I do think games can help you learn to think strategically, but without a lot of real-life training on top of that (and I mean a lot) your days playing chess aren’t going to help in a shooting war, or the like.

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