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  Scrabble: Price Discovery Edition « Cheap Talk

  In an old post, I half-jokingly suggested that the rules of scrabble should be changed to allow the values of tiles to be determined endogenously by competitive bidding. PhD students, thankfully, are not known for their sense of humor and two of Northwestern’s best, Mallesh Pai and Ben Handel, ...

  Rafael Fajardo added 8 days ago

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  russell davies: playful

  Here's the talk I did at Playful the other week. This is the world's largest model railway layout. It's an extraordinary place. Vast. Intensely detailed. Sometimes beautiful. A tremendous achievement in world-building. Similar in some ways to the world-building that goes into a video ...

  Rafael Fajardo added 9 days ago

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  Can D.I.Y. Supplant the First-Person Shooter? - NYTimes.com

  Can D.I.Y. Supplant the First-Person Shooter? The face of the enemy flashed across a 20-foot screen. “That’s right,” Jason Rohrer announced. “It’s Roger Ebert .” There were a few boos, as several hundred people stirred in their seats. The film critic’s cherubic face stared at the audience. ...

  Rafael Fajardo added 9 days ago

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  stfj 3.0

  Lose/Lose is a video-game with real life consequences. Each alien in the game is created based on a random file on the players computer. If the player kills the alien, the file it is based on is deleted. If the players ship is destroyed, the application itself is deleted.

  Rafael Fajardo added 13 days ago

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  Some online video games found to promote 'sociability,' researchers say

  Some online video games found to promote 'sociability,' researchers say Hang in there, parents. There is some hopeful news on the video-gaming front. Researchers have found that some of the large and hugely popular online video games – although condemned by many as time-gobbling, ...

  Rafael Fajardo added 2 weeks ago

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