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Catharsis is one of those words that sounds academic, maybe even a little dramatic, but it quietly shows up in everyday life all the time. You feel it after a good cry in the shower, a long run that ...

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A long time ago I proposed in this column a thing that I’m still determined to turn into an actual Thing: that the ways in which video games are appealing to users can be broken down into three ...

“You need to let that out.” I remember my therapist saying these words. I remember because it was the first time in our years together that they cut the “I get you to talk / you figure it out” bit and ...

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