http://www.kotaku.com.au/2008/03/casual_gamers_worth_billions-2/ the Gamer's Guide | Computer and video game news and reviews Sun, 22 Nov 2009 10:04:38 +1100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 http://www.kotaku.com.au/2008/03/casual_gamers_worth_billions-2/comment-page-1/#comment-14002 masterymistery Sun, 16 Mar 2008 08:58:55 +0000 http://www.kotaku.com.au/games/2008/03/casual_gamers_worth_billions-2.html#comment-14002 <p>I bought a new PC recently and got into a mad optimising frenzy -- ruthlessly deleting files, registry cleaning, defrag, culling startup files, the works. IN the small hours, a bitter ashen taste in my mouth, I realised I had deleted hours of free entertainment in the form of the 50 or so pre-loaded games such as "bejeweled". That's when I came to understand that everything--life, death, and everything in between--is a game, and that humans are born with a supernatural game playing ability that even <a href="http://cosmic-rapture.blogspot.com/2008/03/devil-cheats-at-marbles.html" rel="nofollow">the devil himself is frightened by...</a></p> I bought a new PC recently and got into a mad optimising frenzy — ruthlessly deleting files, registry cleaning, defrag, culling startup files, the works. IN the small hours, a bitter ashen taste in my mouth, I realised I had deleted hours of free entertainment in the form of the 50 or so pre-loaded games such as “bejeweled”. That’s when I came to understand that everything–life, death, and everything in between–is a game, and that humans are born with a supernatural game playing ability that even the devil himself is frightened by…

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