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Listened Lately: Shut Up, We're Talking #47
As it's one of my favorite podcasts, I was frustrated this week when the crew from Shut Up, We're Talking took on the topic of avatars as tokens ( initially expressed by Tobold and refuted by Raph Koster ) that arose from the Shake Your Bunny-Maker achievement in World of Warcraft . The goal of ...
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SUWT and the gang wear their bunny ears
Funcom...riddle me this.. — ... We took it upon ourselves to discuss how we felt about avatars on SUWT this past weekend, and it may even have come off that we thought it had something to do with maturity..at least this is what Anjin at Bullet Points wrote.. ...

More on how the body & brain react to games
Raph's Website — ... Though it should be noted, so can shock horror movies… or perhaps excessive rollercoaster riding. There’s also a bit bolstering the arguments I made not long ago about how we have unconscious predispositions towards people and things that looks like people (such as avatars). Speaking of which, there was a lengthy discussion on that topic on the latest “Shut Up. We’re Talking” podcast, which has led to even more debate and controversy. Unfortunately, I think the SUWT crew missed the point a bit by ...

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