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Raph Koster
Raph Koster
Game designer, author, speaker

Charles Stross has pre-traumatic future shock

July 23, 2007 Game talk
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Charlie’s Diary: Unpacking the Zeitgeist is a fun post about trying to explain the recent gold-farmers-dropping-gnomes incident to someone from 1977 — and pondering what that means for trying to envision what 2037 will be like.

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  2. David Moles says:
    July 24, 2007 at 1:35 am

    Might do better to just have them read “Anda’s Game“. (Me, I’m still waiting for the 20-line-per-mm monitor that was gathering dust on Mister Slippery’s desk in “True Names”.)

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