If the speedrun is an act of monastic devotion, proof of love for the game and power over the self, Asprey’s softlocks are not even so much as puzzles to be solved as koans to be contemplated, exercises in cosmic futility. Their construction is the art, the absolute knowledge required to construct such a lock the proof of devotion, examination of the cage a rumination on the nature of the virtual world.
Read MoreWith so much of Go’s appeal hinging upon compelling you to get out and about wherever it is you reside, it is frustrating that there is so little to be found once you are actually there.
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