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Thompson, Clive person · 7 episodes

Form Factors; Weaponizing typos to own the libs

s13e06 · 12 October 2022 · 1,164 words · 6 min read

… Bits and pieces Clive Thompson wrote Why Games Criticism Never Went Mainstream , based on Gene Park's tweet from yesterday's episode ; it's a great recap of …

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