One big theme I noticed in this week’s reading was the importance of competitive games to the state, at least in the Chinese state. And I can think of other situations where the competitive nature of sports between countries was incredibly important to the countries involved. As someone who mostly understands European and U.S history…

This week’s reading about weiqi and Go did a far better job at introducing me to weiqi and more importantly its importance in East Asian countries. I especially liked the rather short segment from p. 42-47 that discussed weiqi as imagery for war and the Wuxia narration that was mentioned. I found it amazing how…

Player’s choice is incredibly important to any game especially if you are looking for replay value. For me player’s choice is most prominent when I am playing a Fire Emblem game but the more I think about it player’s choice is present in nearly every game I play to some degree. Player’s choice isn’t only…

This week’s reading were by far the most difficult we have had to read thus far. Wei Yao’s Disquisition on Boyi was the most difficult for me to understand however that was most likely because it, like all of the other reading, was talking about a culture that I haven’t ever really understood and the…

Marilyn Yalom’s book “Birth of the Chess Queen” was a fascinating read, especially since I am such a huge fan of medieval European history and this book focused on a lot of major events or just cool and interesting events for a short time and then moved on to the next event, of course with…

A lot of this week’s reading had one common notion or lesson, capitalism is bad. I probably should have seen this coming after last week’s class when Maggie warned us about this but after doing the reading I can see why Maggie was telling us about how bad capitalism is and I see why it…