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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
For inspiration on ways to think about building new structures for infrastructural provision that better reflect these intertwined goals of sustainability, resilience, and equitable access, I look to and learn from activists for social change. Prison abolitionist Mariame Kaba, for example, describes the need to act in the short, medium, and long term, and at the individual community, institutional, and societal levels.
How Infrastructure Works
Deb Chachra
If you're on your phone before bed, you're in a state of hypnosis. You're being told how to think. [..] We read books before bed to prime our brains for better sleep. As our brain transforms words into images, we approach a state of meditation.
Read Before Bed
Tom Sachs
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