July 1, 2008
Game Theory
Speaking of Games, if you aren’t reading The Artful Gamer then you don’t know what’s good. I say this not only as a lover of great games (the reason I play so few) but as a fellow who likes to think he is a student of human nature. Recently, Chris compared scoring a baseball game (a worthy article in its own right) with role-playing:
What the scorekeeper does, and I daresay all people familiar with role-play do, is engage themselves with the game at a level beyond both rule-following and imaginary fantasy. The scorekeeper is like an appreciator of fine art or music: they are mindful of the subtleties and nuances of the ‘rules’ while simultaneously mindful of the art work itself. Where the casual spectator can only engage with the game in fantasy, and the rigid statistician does not “see” a game but a complex calculus, the scorekeeper plays the game. They are engaged with the baseball game at a bodily and spiritual level - the game unfolds for them at their personal pace.
I can’t speak for the others here, but clusterflock is my internet scorecard.
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