C. Thi Nguyen

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3,183 appearances 5 recordings 5 series first heard Jan 2026 last heard 7 Jul

C. Thi Nguyen’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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We can keep pushing around the scoring system to give us the action we want.

So every...

So many games are so different from each other.

And you can even see this in one.

So in climbing, there are lots of things you can do in climbing.

One way to climb is to climb as difficult as much, the most difficult routes you can.

Another thing you can do is you can try to flirt with risk.

Another thing you can do is you can climb easy routes in beautiful nature and try to climb as many gorgeous areas.

There are so many different routes.

And you can push around and choose the goal that's the most satisfying to you.

Because games are not locked into each other.

The way that the anthropologist Johann Huizinga, who's a super famous game scholar, put it, is that games occur in a magic circle.

The meanings in games are isolated from the rest of life.

Which this means is that, I mean, one way he put it is that when we're playing against each other, we cancel out our different relationships.

Right.

my wife and I, are mostly in our daily life supportive people.

loving, and then we play a game and we just try to kill each other.

That's unrelated.

And the fact that I won or she won is also unrelated to our larger life.

That's what makes it okay for me to go all out against her in a board game because those points are detached.

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