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Interestingly, Ojisan TCG didn’t start as a competitive game. The first set of cards was designed purely for collecting, but the local children quickly turned it into something more dynamic. They began comparing stats and declaring, “My card is stronger than yours.”
Seeing this, the game’s creator decided to take it to the next level. New rules were introduced, allowing the cards to be used in actual battles. The objective isn’t to defeat the opponent’s card but to outplay it based on the characters’ skills and abilities.
Middle-Aged Man Trading Cards Go Viral in Rural Japan Town
Ynes Sarah Filleul
The user interfaces on top of the data should help humans cope by rounding values to megabytes and CPU-years, or otherwise indicating orders of magnitude. When working with large raw numbers I configure my terminal to display millions & billions & trillions in different colors.
The Mature Optimization Handbook
Carlos Bueno
All executive roles and processes are “one of one.”
Getting a Job as an Engineering Executive.
Irrational Exuberance
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