Even When You’re Not Playing, You’re Playing: On “Critical Hits” — Cleveland Review of Books
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Even When You’re Not Playing, You’re Playing: On “Critical Hits” — Cleveland Review of Books
But the games of instantly rewarded destruction, in which the characters and action are ready-made “action figures” and the only goal is “winning,” are designed to be addictive, and therefore may be hard to outgrow or replace. Compelled into an endless, meaningless feedback loop, the imagination is starved and sterilized.
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