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How an Anime Tech Cult Can Help Us Grasp the Ethics Behind Game Development

April 26, 2018May 9, 2019 Patrick BenderComments Off on How an Anime Tech Cult Can Help Us Grasp the Ethics Behind Game Development

A video game designer and purveyor of “mixed reality” takes a long, hard look through his headset at a heady ‘Bebop’ episode.

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Look, this is pretty self-explanatory. What do you want, a road map?

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The fifth episode of ‘Bebop’ is one of its best, but I never watched the rest of the show. Here are all the things I still wonder about.

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