C. Thi Nguyen

And a refreshment scene is a quiet moment with another character where you reveal shared backstory.

So the game just forces you over and over again, every time you use up all your energy to invent shared backstory, and it forces you to do it whenever you're in trouble.

And it just like pops out narrative, right?

And it's a different scoring system.

So one of the interesting things is old school D&D, most of the scoring system is built towards like giving people experience points for killing things or completing quests.

And one of my favorite new systems is

So Lady Blackbird, it gives you experience points for acting in character, and it gives you double experience points for getting your team and you into trouble by acting in character, right?

It's a completely, like, I mean, I think, like, does it make sense?

Like, these people are, for me, like the heroes, where they were like, even in a game, they realized that a game wasn't giving them the experience they wanted, and so they retuned it.

Right, although I have to say like, you know,

The whole problem is that games are disposable and the metrics are not.

Like it's very hard just be like, well, ignore finance, ignore money, ignore like when the world is actually pushing on you and saying like, well, you have to do well by this metric or whatever.

we're going to fire you or kill your department.

I think...

We have to acknowledge that a lot of the world's scoring systems have a deep impact on us practically, and there's no way of completely disentangling ourselves with them.

But there's a huge difference between knowing that something gives you some useful goods and that you all participate in it insofar as you get the goods you want versus taking it to heart.

I mean, simplest example is just like there's a big difference between being paying attention to how much money you have and how big your retirement account is.

So you don't starve and have enough versus thinking my goal in life is to max out my money score no matter what.

Right.

Like, like.