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C. Thi Nguyen

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
771 total appearances

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Bankless
Playing the Right Games: Why Scores Quietly Replace Meaning | C. Thi Nguyen

And so fun.

Bankless
Playing the Right Games: Why Scores Quietly Replace Meaning | C. Thi Nguyen

There's, you know, I just, I was telling my class this, I have a class on the philosophy of games.

Bankless
Playing the Right Games: Why Scores Quietly Replace Meaning | C. Thi Nguyen

And I was like, you know, it's,

Bankless
Playing the Right Games: Why Scores Quietly Replace Meaning | C. Thi Nguyen

It's kind of weird, but it's one of the few ways I just get to destroy, try to destroy my kid all out.

Bankless
Playing the Right Games: Why Scores Quietly Replace Meaning | C. Thi Nguyen

And he gets like, I don't have to protect his ego.

Bankless
Playing the Right Games: Why Scores Quietly Replace Meaning | C. Thi Nguyen

I can just be like, it's important because I'm really bad at them.

Bankless
Playing the Right Games: Why Scores Quietly Replace Meaning | C. Thi Nguyen

So platformers are about the same level and I can just try to fuck him up.

Bankless
Playing the Right Games: Why Scores Quietly Replace Meaning | C. Thi Nguyen

And that's cool because that doesn't leave the game.

Bankless
Playing the Right Games: Why Scores Quietly Replace Meaning | C. Thi Nguyen

Right.

Bankless
Playing the Right Games: Why Scores Quietly Replace Meaning | C. Thi Nguyen

Right.

Bankless
Playing the Right Games: Why Scores Quietly Replace Meaning | C. Thi Nguyen

It's just a game.

Bankless
Playing the Right Games: Why Scores Quietly Replace Meaning | C. Thi Nguyen

It's just a game.

Bankless
Playing the Right Games: Why Scores Quietly Replace Meaning | C. Thi Nguyen

And on the other hand, if you are social media and the game, the game like thing that people are doing with finances, where they go all whatever Jeff Bezos is doing right to max out his score in his activity is not in a magic circle.

Bankless
Playing the Right Games: Why Scores Quietly Replace Meaning | C. Thi Nguyen

I see.

Bankless
Playing the Right Games: Why Scores Quietly Replace Meaning | C. Thi Nguyen

We could literally spend the rest like five hours talking about this one question.

Bankless
Playing the Right Games: Why Scores Quietly Replace Meaning | C. Thi Nguyen

This is actually, when I started thinking about scoring systems,

Bankless
Playing the Right Games: Why Scores Quietly Replace Meaning | C. Thi Nguyen

A lot of my book is about metrics and bureaucratic measurement.

Bankless
Playing the Right Games: Why Scores Quietly Replace Meaning | C. Thi Nguyen

But the place I started thinking about it was Rotten Tomatoes and wine scoring systems.

Bankless
Playing the Right Games: Why Scores Quietly Replace Meaning | C. Thi Nguyen

I'm on your wife's side.

Bankless
Playing the Right Games: Why Scores Quietly Replace Meaning | C. Thi Nguyen

Why?