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How Corporations and Governments Use Games to Control Us
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Game Developers - Skinner Box Manipulation in Video Games
The games industry is almost of two completely different minds about how, you know, people are motivated. Video games originally didn't really have a lot of this sort of Skinner box type stuff before. And so it's almost as if you've got one set of game designers or one half of a game designer's brain which is like, I just want to go and make this fun. But then there's the other half of the mind that says yeah, but I kind of have to make money and ideally as much money as possible.
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