C. Thi Nguyen

Hello.

I have no idea what I'm doing here.

I was going to ask you this in the pre-show, but, you know, I'm...

Maybe we should ask it here.

You do not have the wrong person.

I'm not walking into the wrong room.

So, God, there's so many ways to talk about this.

Maybe the most important thing for me, and this applies both to games, to real games and to games, game-like systems outside, is the idea that we have a significant choice in the games we play.

We can pick the games we play.

We can pick which scoring systems we engage in and we can pick and fine tune and tailor them.

We can shift and move them around.

And I think like

I've been trying to figure out for a while.

I wrote this book in part because the student wrote me that email after I gave an early talk version of a lot of this material.

And I was trying to figure out what is it about the framing of how I was talking about things that was really impactful.

And I think it's that we know in our hearts that we play games for fun, for enjoyment, for richness, for satisfaction.

And then if a game, if a game like pulls us in and then we, and if we fight all our might to like max out that score and then, and then we end up with like misery and sorrow, I think it's really intuitive to think to yourself like, no, you screwed up, right?

Like I, I've had this experience a lot.

Fly fishing.

This is,