What if companies jumped into game dynamics, not for an external marketing program but as a means to motivate their internal workforce towards sustainability goals?
One thing leads to another, and without going into terribly great detail, Ralph finds himself in the saccharine Sugar Rush game basically what Candy Land would look like if it was a karting game.
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What will happen if he gets a game-ending hit later this season?
What would happen if an entire company played the game?
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All the focus on "Plan B" is infectious, causing even the employed to ask themselves, if only as a parlor game, what would I do?
It's pretty hard to play the game if you don't know what the rules are.
What this means is that if you are successful at the game and have a lot of in game currency, ISK (InterStellar Kredits), then you can buy a PLEX from someone and use that to pay your subscription.
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Mr Jones speculated about what would happen if Scottish voters "change the rules of the game".
This urge to improve is a key ingredient in the formula, if there is one, for what keeps people playing a game.
What if it had been a first-person exploration and adventure game?
Now it's advisers who are pushing the clients, with a new ethic: Anything that isn't specifically prohibited by the IRS is fair game, even if it is clearly not what Congress intended.
After a series of what-would you-do-if questions, replete with game-show invoking bells and whistles, users are matched with an ideal mate avatar and corresponding Tacori engagement ring suggestion (mine was ivy-leaguer Jack Calloway on bended knee with a square-cut diamond solitaire).
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But that is not what happens in real life, if the results of a new loan game devised by behavioral economist and bestselling author Dan Ariely are to be believed.
If LENR lives up to what is claimed, it will be a complete game changing revolution.
If you look at a show like Survivor for example, what makes the game work is the fact that the way to win is not by eliminating other people, but by convincing those people you eliminated to give you the money, which is very complicated.
You wonder if those 11 years away from the game left him unprepared for what it has become off the pitch: a global spectacle in which every gesture and utterance is magnified, with players coming from every corner of the globe and bringing with them their own unfamiliar foibles and quirks.
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If we don't win our game it doesn't matter what anyone else is doing.
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If counterparties pay up, CDSs are a zero-sum game: what the seller loses, the buyer gains.
If hedge-fund managers are playing a zero-sum game, what is their social utility?
Our idea was, if we got into a close game, we were going to do what we needed to do win.
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But what if most fans see current owners as most at fault for blocking the playing of the game?
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What if Facetime was integrated into the TV in a way that friends could watch a football game together?
What if Lin goes to Houston and averages, say, 13 points and eight assists per game while running the offense competently?
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What if strong competition were to come into the MMORPG space (massively multiplayer online role playing game) and take market share away from World of Warcraft?
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As it becomes more of a guessing game to see what the Fed will do next, volatility rises, and if there's one thing traders love, it's volatility.
This is not a personal vendetta against Sir Alex but he has a particular stature within the game and if he is seen to be getting off lightly other managers may think what he said was not beyond the pale.
If the public doesn't believe that you know what you're doing with the economy, the game is over.
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