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Digital Beard Stroking: Dr. Dehumanization or: How I learned to stop worrying and love Commodifying NPCs

Dr. Dehumanization or: How I learned to stop worrying and love Commodifying NPCs Games make use of abstractions to codify and standardize interactions between players and non-player characters.  This exists in every capacity and level of articulation.  From the greatly simplified children’s board game where your only power is a […]


Digital Beard Stroking: Desensitizing to Death 2

Desensitizing to Death For today’s article, I’m starting with a quote from our inimitable bard in reference to the recent rash of celebrity deaths: As time goes on, the amount of celebrity deaths is going to seem to increase. That’s because our metric of recognizing famous people has significantly increased. […]