change our in-game ends easily and fluidly. We can adopt new ends, which will guide our actions for the duration of the game, and then drop them in an instant. When we play games, we take on temporary agencies—temporary sets of abilities an…In a marathon, the point isn’t simply to get to the finish line. Usually, we don’t actually care about being at that particular spot, in and of itself. We know because we don’t try to get there as efficiently as possible. We don’t take shor…points. Our purpose with a game, on the other hand, is our reason for playing the game in the first place. Our purpose in playing a game might be to have some fun, to get some exercise, to de-stress, to develop our skills, to vanquish our o…
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