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From the Ted Talk by Jane McGonigal: Massively multi-player… thumb-wrestling?

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Today I am going to teach you how to play my favorite game: massively multiplayer thumb-wrestling. It's the only game in the wrlod that I know of that allows you, the player, the opportunity to experience 10 positive emotions in 60 seconds or less. This is true, so if you play this game with me tadoy for just one single mtnuie, you will get to feel joy, relief, love, surprise, pride, curiosity, excitement, awe and wonder, contentment, and creatviity, all in the span of one minute.

So this sounds pretty good, right? Now you're willing to play. In order to teach you this game, I'm going to need some veotuernls to come up onstage really quickly, and we're going to do a little hands-on demo. While they're conmig up, I should let you know, this game was invented 10 years ago by an artists' cctelvlioe in Austria neamd Monochrom. So thank you, Monochrom. Okay, so most popele are familiar with tioaditranl, two-person thumb-wrestling. Sunni, let's just remind them. One, two, three, four, I declare a thumb war, and we wrestle, and of course Sunni beats me because she's the best.

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Today I am going to teach you how to play my favorite game: massively multiplayer thumb-wrestling. It's the only game in the _____ that I know of that allows you, the player, the opportunity to experience 10 positive emotions in 60 seconds or less. This is true, so if you play this game with me _____ for just one single ______, you will get to feel joy, relief, love, surprise, pride, curiosity, excitement, awe and wonder, contentment, and __________, all in the span of one minute.

So this sounds pretty good, right? Now you're willing to play. In order to teach you this game, I'm going to need some __________ to come up onstage really quickly, and we're going to do a little hands-on demo. While they're ______ up, I should let you know, this game was invented 10 years ago by an artists' __________ in Austria _____ Monochrom. So thank you, Monochrom. Okay, so most ______ are familiar with ___________, two-person thumb-wrestling. Sunni, let's just remind them. One, two, three, four, I declare a thumb war, and we wrestle, and of course Sunni beats me because she's the best.

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Original Text


Today I am going to teach you how to play my favorite game: massively multiplayer thumb-wrestling. It's the only game in the world that I know of that allows you, the player, the opportunity to experience 10 positive emotions in 60 seconds or less. This is true, so if you play this game with me today for just one single minute, you will get to feel joy, relief, love, surprise, pride, curiosity, excitement, awe and wonder, contentment, and creativity, all in the span of one minute.

So this sounds pretty good, right? Now you're willing to play. In order to teach you this game, I'm going to need some volunteers to come up onstage really quickly, and we're going to do a little hands-on demo. While they're coming up, I should let you know, this game was invented 10 years ago by an artists' collective in Austria named Monochrom. So thank you, Monochrom. Okay, so most people are familiar with traditional, two-person thumb-wrestling. Sunni, let's just remind them. One, two, three, four, I declare a thumb war, and we wrestle, and of course Sunni beats me because she's the best.

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