Three Moves Ahead 151: If on a winter's night a gamer

Three Moves Ahead

Idle Thumbs

War Games, Strategy Games, War, Games & Hobbies, Strategy, Video Games, Games

4.8 • 532 Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2012

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Rob, Julian, and Hasbro's Rob Daviau are marooned in rural Massachusetts. To avert cabin fever, they gather 'round the fireplace with a few microphones to talk about whether gaming gives them any carry-over skills for other activities, like cooking and work. Do games make us better at reasoning and problem analysis? Do they provide the same kind of perspective as an econ or stats course, for example? Julian is convinced he's a better negotiator because of games. Are we talking about gamification as opposed to achievement-ization, and is it helpful to try and perceive an underlying system to everyday tasks?

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0:00.0	Good evening. You are listening to Three Moves Ahead, and I'm your host, Rob Zakney.
0:03.5	With me this morning, actually, is my regular co-panelist, Julian Rabbit Murdoch.
0:08.7	It's nice to be in the same room with you for once.
0:10.8	Yeah, this is a rare treat. And we're also joined by returning guest and a friend of the show, Rob Davio.
0:18.1	Hello. Nice to be here.
0:19.9	We're all here together at Rabbit's House by chance because we're having a weekend
0:25.1	we've been trying to, you know, learn some new skills.
0:28.2	And this weekend we've been experimenting with some really off the wall like cooking techniques.
0:32.9	Experimenting is the right word because cooking would not be the right word.
0:35.7	Yeah.
0:36.1	I think we got maybe one edible dish from every three things we tried.
0:41.6	Yeah, that's about right.
0:42.3	We were trying a, the theme of this weekend was molecular gastronomy.
0:46.2	So we were all trying to be like, you know, Farron, Adria and Granticott's,
0:52.8	trying these, like, fancy high-end dishes using foams and powders.
0:56.9	And bubbles and gels and...
0:59.0	And almost all it was...
1:00.4	Almost all of was a cluster fuck, right?
1:01.9	Like...
1:03.0	It was a train wreck.
1:04.4	Let's just be clear.
1:05.4	But that put you in mind of, you know, a topic that we could discuss this weekend.
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