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My favorite thing about "Finite and Infinite Games" by James Carse is you can yadda-yadda the whole book: "There are two types of games. One could be called fi

• floatrock 6y ago
  Not familiar with the book, but a thing I heard recently that I think gets at the same idea and is one of those things that make you say hmmm was something like: "Your heartbeat is just the latest heartbeat in an uninterrupted line back to the original heartbeat." Doesn't really matter what spiritual or scientific tradition you use to define "original", and it doesn't mean that there weren't innumerable branches that ended up in a dead-end. But it gives a bit of perspective towards this infinite game.
• hnick 6y ago
  > There is only one infinite game It's World of Warcraft, isn't it? :) Thank you for the quote. I get the point and it gives me something to think about as a gamer who often settles into the gamer equivalent of comfort food.
• csense 6y ago
  > There is only one infinite game How could this possibly be true? I'm sure you could invent lots of non-isomorphic infinite games. In fact, couldn't just about any game be re-purposed into an infinite game by changing the win condition to "continue to play for an unbounded amount of time"?