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Akimbo: A Podcast from Seth Godin
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What Makes You Playing Slot Machines?
i invented graphic adventure games on the computer, but they made people feel stupid. i also created a game for an online service called prodigy that millions of people used every day. Prodigy had a significant problem: once people came to believe that the computer could understand them, they would start using normal human language and the computer had no clue what they were saying. I mean, it's built right into the game itself, all of these dynamics that make us feel like we are a part of something. And then the fourth one, the one that goes up or down depending on the culture of the ment, is to feel powerful,. To feel like we defeated the other, to feel like we
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