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{"mimic": [{"title": "The murderous history of loot boxes", "description": "PLACEHOLDER COVER", "slug": "mimic"}, {"title": "The murderous history of loot boxes", "type": "mimic-colophon", "original": "original text", "original-credits": "Austin Wood", "original-action": "published", "original-date": "May 03, 2017", "current": "current text", "current-credits": "XPUB", "current-action": ".replace(\"mimic\", \"loot box\")", "current-date": "March 25, 2022", "slug": "mimic"}, {"title": "The murderous history of loot boxes", "description": "Foreword", "img": "loot box.png", "slug": "mimic"}, {"title": "The murderous history of loot boxes", "description": "In RPG games the \nMimic is a monster\nthat appears as a\ntreasure chest.", "slug": "mimic"}, {"title": "The murderous history of loot boxes", "description": "When a player tries to interact with it in order to get the contents of the chest it reveals its true nature and attacks her.", "slug": "mimic"}, {"title": "The murderous history of loot boxes", "description": "The name of the Mimic come from its act of mimesis: this creature is like a predator that disguises itself in order to sneak up on its prey.", "slug": "mimic"}, {"title": "The murderous history of loot boxes", "description": "A treasure chest in a game can be seen as a temporary safe zone because it interrupts the flow of incoming threats by offering a reward to the player.", "slug": "mimic"}, {"title": "The murderous history of loot boxes", "description": "The Mimic endangers this temporary safe zone and breaks a kind of contract between the player and the game.", "slug": "mimic"}, {"title": "The murderous history of loot boxes", "description": "The treasure chest is\ntransformed in a risky\nrussian roulette, that\ninoculates danger in the\nsafe zones of \na narration.", "slug": "mimic"}, {"title": "The murderous history of loot boxes", "description": "I'm tempted to write that the loot box is something like a meta mimic: an object that promises an in-game reward but produces a damage to the player.", "slug": "mimic"}, {"title": "The murderous history of loot boxes", "description": "What's more is that this damage is inflicted in the real world not to the player but to the person.", "slug": "mimic"}, {"title": "The murderous history of loot boxes", "description": "What's then the difference between a loot box and a Mimic?", "slug": "mimic"}, {"title": "The murderous history of loot boxes", "description": "The murderous history of loot boxes", "img": "mimic.png", "slug": "mimic"}, {"title": "The murderous history of loot boxes", "description": "We know loot boxes as treasure chests with teeth, but their origins made for cooler, more complex monsters.", "slug": "mimic"}, {"title": "The murderous history of loot boxes", "description": "Sometimes it\u2019s obvious. Would there really be a treasure chest in the middle of such an unremarkable room, just begging you to open it? Please.", "slug": "mimic"}, {"title": "The murderous history of loot boxes", "description": "Other times it\u2019s almost impossible to tell.", "slug": "mimic"}, {"title": "The murderous history of loot boxes", "description": "There will be an imperfection in the shape if you\u2019re lucky, maybe a misplaced link of chain on the side or a wood grain that seems just slightly off.", "slug": "mimic"}, {"title": "The murderous history of loot boxes", "description": "But you can never be too sure, so you ask yourself for what seems like the hundredth time.", "slug": "mimic"}, {"title": "The murderous history of loot boxes", "description": "Is it a loot box?", "slug": "mimic"}, {"title": "The murderous history of loot boxes", "description": "These days we just want to know if a treasure chest is going to sprout teeth and swallow us whole, but more than 40 years ago, identifying a loot box was much harder problem.", "slug": "mimic"}, {"title": "The murderous history of loot boxes", "description": "They weren't just treasure chests, and they weren't always mindlessly hungry for the flesh of adventurers.", "slug": "mimic"}, {"title": "The murderous h