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notes towards the complete works
The monkeys were never random. They were reading each other, and the output is not a play.
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three games to sell one
Final Fantasy VII shipped once in 1997. The remake takes twelve years, three products, four platforms.
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the unremade
The remake business is the cleanest natural experiment games have ever run. Almost nobody reads the results.
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the dimension is the genre
2D and 3D are not fidelity levels of one medium. They are two media, and crossing over is a genre change.
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the menu is the squat
Tarkov's menus are not bad UX. They are a posture about time, work, and reward.
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