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When we released the game, literally thousands of fans wrote us, all sharing their stories with us and telling us they felt not so alone anymore just because they played our game.
Many wrote us that they seek therapy now, just because they played our game and felt hopeful to overcome their own struggles.
Every Tuesday and Thursday, Sally left work early, picked up her daughter from school, played with her, fed her, bathed her and put her to bed.
Just as mahjong is played over four rounds with at least four hands each, the book is divided into four parts, each with four chapters.
During the Age of Exploration, spirits played a crucial role in long distance sea voyages.
Even more valuable, history provides a laboratory in which we see played out the actual, as well as the intended consequences of ideas.
Every team has played at least once, yet not a single match with a combined score of more than five hits!
So if the elves didn’t actually play one match, and the goblins didn’t actually play two, the truth must be that elves played two and goblins played one.
For the elves to have played two matches, they must’ve faced each of the other teams once.
And since goblins have only played one match so far— against the elves— that means the match between goblins and treefolk has not occurred yet.
Well, what I did was I took the sound of disturbed African honey bees, and I played it back to elephants resting under trees through a wireless speaker system, so I could understand how they would react as if there were wild bees in the area.
And played around with this a little bit.
And we, in fact, when we have played this over the world.
He played an absolutely key role, more than 40 years ago, in helping the world get rid of the scourge of smallpox.
As the trial played out over the next several months, Truth raised funds, strategized with lawyers, and held her faith.
But there were also some more unexpected people who played a critical role in what was going on in Eastern Europe.
It may come as a surprise, but they played a critical role in the emergence of the market economy in Eastern Europe.
If we go back several hundred years, an understanding of microbiology led to the development of antiseptic techniques, which played a big role in making sure patients were able to stay alive postsurgery.
I was also an early writer, and when I began to write, at about the age of seven, stories in pencil with crayon illustrations that my poor mother was obligated to read, I wrote exactly the kinds of stories I was reading: All my characters were white and blue-eyed, they played in the snow, they ate apples, (Laughter) and they talked a lot about the weather, how lovely it was that the sun had come out.
Well, an explanation is an assertion about what's there, unseen, that accounts for what's seen; because the explanatory role of Persephone's marriage contract could be played equally well by infinitely many other ad hoc entities.
Now, there's one other result of this dynamic called reciprocal altruism, which I think is kind of good news, which is that the way that this is played out in the human species, it has given people an intuitive appreciation of the golden rule.
Social structure adapts to accommodate this possibility and to harness this productive potential, so you get cities, you know, and you get all the non-zero-sum games you don't think about that are being played across the world.
And the answer is, first of all, on balance I would say people have played their games to more win-win outcomes than lose-lose outcomes.
There was a time when you played cricket, you played timeless test matches, when you played on till the game got over.
And suddenly we fell in love with the 50-over game, and we played it virtually every day.
So, you know, here I am now, on the deck of Titanic, sitting in a submersible, and looking out at planks that look much like this, where I knew that the band had played.
They played one dice game, and the winners of that game got to go on an epic adventure.
They played dice games for 18 years, we've been playing Warcraft for 16 years.
And I played the first movement of the Beethoven Violin Concerto.
And as I played, I understood that there was a profound change occurring in Nathaniel's eyes.
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