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If people ever ask what I do for a living – and after I’ve navigated the follow-up issue of whether I play games all day; I was once asked that<\/em> while having a lumbar puncture – I generally say that I spend a lot of time thinking about how to describe things. Games are complicated pieces of technology and thought, and, in truth, anyone can have an opinion about something. So description seems to be the bit of the job that I find the most challenging and rewarding: what is something trying to do and how does it feel? What is<\/em> it?<\/p>\n

I’m not brilliant at this – which is why it’s both challenging and rewarding. But I am always on the look out for people who do this description business well. And sooner or later, I always turn to Counter Intelligence, the only book from Jonathan Gold, the late, great restaurant critic from Los Angeles and the only person to ever win a Pulitzer from writing about food.<\/p>\n

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If people ever ask what I do for a living – and after I’ve navigated the follow-up issue of whether I play games all day; I was once asked that while having a lumbar puncture – I generally say that I spend a lot of time thinking about how to describe things. Games are complicated pieces of technology and thought, and, in truth, anyone can have an opinion about something. So description seems to be the bit of the job that I find the most challenging and rewarding: what is something trying to do and how does it feel? What is it? I’m not brilliant at this – which is why it’s both challenging and rewarding. But I am always on the look out for…<\/p>\n

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