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<p style="text-align:justify;">Following my &#8220;<a href="https://metavideogame.wordpress.com/2010/07/21/state-of-the-art-on-the-tyranny-of-fun/">Tyranny of Fun</a>&#8221; article, I hereby <a href="http://wmdp.rice.edu/ComputerScience/CSBlow-27Sep10/CSBlow-27Sep10.mp4">post a link</a> to an important  talk by Jonathan Blow (author of &#8220;Braid&#8221;) about the hidden truth of  contemporary forms of hedonist entertainment. I sincerely advise this to  anyone who plays videogames just for fun, or enjoys any form of  &#8216;mindless&#8217; pastimes just for fun. Especially those who play Facebook  games and the like NEED to watch this and make a deep  reflection on how they waste their time and money… their life. Also, to  all scientists, journalists and creators of videogames who insist it&#8217;s  OK and even beneficial to employ external reward mechanisms to  psychologically manipulate audiences into addictively engage in mindless  videogames (or films, or TV shows, or books, etc) that add nothing to  persons&#8217; lives. Or if you simply still have any doubts on the heinous  nature of the word FUN. Watch this.</p>
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