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How can a picture of flowers make you see games differently?


A look at Total Refusal, the collective exploring the power of counterplay in video games.

As they move towards Franklin D. Roosevelt Drive to discuss the work of urban planner Robert Moses and theorist Jane Jacobs, they have to avoid and ignore incoming fire. The city walkers in Operation Jane Walk run into enemies, and the tour guide casually says, "We have to defend ourselves, sorry," as the camera cuts from the violence but the gunfire is loud and clear. It reflects the promises of the meritocracy, he says, and even if most people recognise that hard work doesn't correlate with social climbing in real life, games continue to sell that myth.

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