Games Without Frontiers: How Videogames Blind Us With Science

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Games Without Frontiers: How Videogames Blind Us With Science

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A group of them were building Excel spreadsheets into which they'd dump all the information they'd gathered about how each boss behaved: What potions affected it, what attacks it would use, with what damage, and when. Then they'd develop a mathematical model to explain how the boss worked -- and to predict how to beat it.

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