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The Philadelphia 76ers are losing on purpose but "playing to win"
It’s brilliant and it’s warming my cold Broad Street heart.
It’s brilliant and it’s warming my cold Broad Street heart.
Definitely something.
Check me off as “generic bad ass.”
Any goals scored are purely incidental.
Like an athlete sobbing after a championship loss, Jesper Juul hates failing in videogames. “Why do we play videogames even though they make us unhappy?” he asks in his new book The Art of Failure: An Essay on the Pain of Playing Videogames. Comparing game failure to tragic literature, theatre, and cinema, Juul looks at why failing in videogames is so personal and why it’s okay to get angry when we do. In an interview with Kill Screen last year, Juul describes how breaking the cycle of failure is difficult, “I actually wasn’t learning the sort of stuff I was supposed to be…