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The definitions for Launch Day

definition direction category 1. It can be present as a disturbance or a defiance of any current stream, as a way to protest, as emancipation or contestation. Across Ideology definition direction category 3. Cultural activities or commercial products reflecting, suited to, or aimed at the tastes of the general masses of people. Across Ideology definition direction category 4. A form of government in which the people govern themselves, usually by electing bodies of representatives. Across Ideology definition direction category 6. The principal or dominant course, tendency, or trend that is familiar to the masses and available to the general public. Across Ideology definition direction category 8. A term used in Marxist theory to describe the state in which one feels like they are given full agency of their own choices and actions when in fact they are subject to a certain ideology that has come to seem so self-speaking they wouldn't question it. Across Ideology definition direction category 9. Ideas and opinions are not spontaneously "born" in each individual brain. They have had a centre of formation, or irradiation, of dissemination, of persuasion, like a group of men, or a single individual even, which has developed them and presented them in the political form of current reality.' [Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks] Across Ideology definition direction category 10. A factory management system developed in the late 19th century to increase efficiency by evaluating every step in a manufacturing process and breaking down production into specialized repetitive tasks. It can be present as disturbance or defiance of any current stream as way to protest, as emancipation or contestation. Across Ideology definition direction category 11. "It is easier to imagine the end of the world that the end of…" [Slavoj Žižek] an economic system characterized by private or corporate ownership of goods, by investments that are determined by private decision, and by prices, production, and the distribution of goods that are determined mainly by competition in a free market. Across Ideology definition direction category 12. According to Marxist theory, it refers to society's relationships that are not directly related to production. This includes culture, institutions, political power structures, roles, rituals, religion, media, and state. Across Ideology definition direction category 2. Pleasant leisure activities such as movies, books, video games, tv shows, sporting events, circuses, comedy events, music festivals. Down Ideology definition direction category 5. A form of government in which society is based on the common ownership of the means of production, cooperative labour, and freely associated producers that administer production on the basis of a social or common plan. Down Ideology definition direction category 7. According to Marxist theory, it refers to the mode of production which includes the forces and relations of production in a society. Down Ideology definition direction category 1. When a company is taking unfair or unethical advantage of a person (e.g. a user) or a situation for profit. Across Loot Box definition direction category 4. Which causes a strong and harmful need to regularly have or do something with. Across Loot Box definition direction category 7. Something that is considered valuable becauseit is kept as a part of a group of similar objects. Across Loot Box definition direction category 8. Something unexpected. Across Loot Box definition direction category 2. Available to only a few people. Down Loot Box definition direction category 3. The investment may or may not come back, which makes paying not just buying but… Down Loot Box definition direction category 5. The price given to objects to be acquired, produced, accomplished, or maintained. Down Loot Box definition direction category 6. Something given or received in return or compensation for a service, merit, hard work, etc. Down Loot Box definition direction category 3. The art of creating a new fictional world inside videogames realities. Across Modding and Videogames World definition direction category 6. A form of opposition to the increasing use of game elements within non-game systems, which aims to disrupt the processing and exploitation of users’ data; it calls for gaming with the system, for a disruptive play with its rules and content while being within it. Across Modding and Videogames World definition direction category 8. An alternative mode of exchange to the rationalist calculation of capitalist exchange, where valuables are not sold, but rather given without an explicit agreement for immediate or future rewards. Across Modding and Videogames World definition direction category 9. A type of game that is monetised later either by using the user data or by adding payable content inside the game. Because of being so accessible, it became quite popular and attracted high numbers of players. Across Modding and Videogames World definition direction category 1. Time that modders spend in modifying and sometimes improving corporates' video games in form of a hobby, but still producing profit for the company. Down Modding and Videogames World definition direction category 2. Something that is given away without any expectation for payback. It allows us to act in a way that is non-alienated and differs considerably from the exchange of commodities with the aim of profit-making. Down Modding and Videogames World definition direction category 4. It often includes activities such as conventions, writing fictions, participating in online forums and discussions, purchasing merchandise and collector items in order to build a community around a common interest. Down Modding and Videogames World definition direction category 5. Modification used to change the behaviour of a game to make it more fun for every gamer. Down Modding and Videogames World definition direction category 7. Modification used to gain an unfair and unauthorized advantage in a game to make it more fun, accessible, and easy for the user who is playing. Down Modding and Videogames World definition direction category 1. A business model that is used also in videogames to ensure that microtransactions are turned from an occasional event into a rooted activity for gamers. This model functions following different strategies to ensure continuous profiting, like fast thinking processes, gatchas (collectible items), subscriptions, etc. Across Predatory Schemes in Videogames definition direction category 3. A feeling of worry, nervousness, or unease about something with an uncertain outcome. Across Predatory Schemes in Videogames definition direction category 4. The type of process that a video game publisher can use to generate revenue from a video game. Tactics that capitalize on informational advantages (e.g., behavioral tracking) and data manipulation to incentivize continuous spending, while offering limited or no guarantees or protections, with the potential to exploit vulnerable players (e.g., adolescents, problematic gamers). Across Predatory Schemes in Videogames definition direction category 5. A business model where users can purchase virtual items for small amounts of money. It often appears in free-to-play games, meaning there is no cost to download the game, just a cost to buy the online virtual products. Across Predatory Schemes in Videogames definition direction category 7. A phenomenon that describes how people tend to value an object more if they made or assembled it. Across Predatory Schemes in Videogames definition direction category 8. A large group of low-paid workers are hired to click on paid advertising links. Across Predatory Schemes in Videogames definition direction category 9. A cognitive bias whereby an individual's decisions are influenced by a particular point of reference. Across Predatory Schemes in Videogames definition direction category 2. The space in which the normal rules and reality of the world are suspended and replaced by the artificial reality of a game world. Down Predatory Schemes in Videogames definition direction category 3. An uneasy amalgam of several contradictory legacies: a religious one, which has censured excessive drinking, gambling and drug use as moral transgressions; a scientific one, which has characterized alcoholism and drug addiction as biological diseases; and a colloquial one, which has casually applied the term to almost any fixation. Down Predatory Schemes in Videogames definition direction category 6. When you describe something such as information, writing, or entertainment that you consider to be of no worth, value, nor serious interest. Down Predatory Schemes in Videogames definition direction category 1. After-hours labour, masked with enjoyable activities that feel like leisure. Across Productivity and Leisure definition direction category 5. Any action you take towards the improvement of your own body or mind. You are incentivized to quantify yourself through a “do what you love” rhetoric. Across Productivity and Leisure definition direction category 7. Can be practical work, especially when it involves hard physical or mental effort. Across Productivity and Leisure definition direction category 9. Can be a playable theory used to learn about reality without the consequences of reality. Across Productivity and Leisure definition direction category 10. The process of turning non-ludic activities into play. It might be seen as a form of ideology and it can be used as an online marketing technique to encourage engagement with a product or service. Across Productivity and Leisure definition direction category 2. Experienced or lived time. Down Productivity and Leisure definition direction category 3. When you have the freedom to choose how to use your time. Down Productivity and Leisure definition direction category 4. Leisure practices included in humans' lives. Down Productivity and Leisure definition direction category 6. "Time flies when you're having.." Down Productivity and Leisure definition direction category 8. A free activity standing quite consciously outside ordinary life as being "not serious", but at the same time absorbing the player intensely and utterly. It is an activity connected with no material interest, and no profit should be gained by doing it. It proceeds within its own proper boundaries of time and space according to fixed rules and in an orderly manner. Down Productivity and Leisure