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(They/he) Mostly reading about game research, disability rights, trans rights and anti-capitalism. Also some fantasy.
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Chad rated Taro Yoko's Strange Works : From Drakengard to NieR: 4 stars
Chad rated Battle royale: 5 stars
Battle royale by Kōshun Takami, Kōshun Takami (Battle Royale (1))
Koushun Takami's notorious high-octane thriller envisions a nightmare scenario: a class of junior high school students is taken to a …
Chad rated Communities of play: 3 stars
Chad rated Handbook of usability testing: 3 stars
Handbook of usability testing by Jeffrey Rubin (Wiley technical communication library)
Chad rated The Fall of Hyperion: 4 stars
The Fall of Hyperion by Dan Simmons
On the world called Hyperion, beyond the law of the Hegemony of Man, there waits the creature called the Shrike. …
Chad rated Weapons of Math Destruction: 3 stars
Weapons of Math Destruction by Cathy O'Neil
A former Wall Street quant sounds an alarm on the mathematical models that pervade modern life — and threaten to …
Chad rated How Games Move Us: 4 stars
Chad rated The Gospel Of Loki: 3 stars
Chad rated Other minds: 4 stars
Other minds by Peter Godfrey-Smith
"Peter Godfrey-Smith is a leading philosopher of science. He is also a scuba diver whose underwater videos of warring octopuses …
Chad rated The art of failure: 4 stars
Jesper Juul: The art of failure (2013, MIT Press)
The art of failure by Jesper Juul (Playful thinking)
Chad rated Norse Mythology: 4 stars
Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman
The great Norse myths, which have inspired so much of modern fiction, are dazzlingly retold by Neil Gaiman. Tales of …
Chad rated How to Do Things with Videogames: 4 stars
How to Do Things with Videogames by Ian Bogost (Electronic Mediations)
In recent years, computer games have moved from the margins of popular culture to its center. Reviews of new games …
