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maroonblazer · 2022-01-29 · Original thread
> For a view from the other direction, "How to be a God", by Battle. This is a game dev who became an academic and spent too much time thinking about philosophy.

For anyone else who was struggling to locate this reference, the author is Bartle, not Battle.

https://www.amazon.com/How-Be-God-Would-Be-Deities/dp/095564...

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