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Posts tagged “friend”

  • Want to Build Better Friendships? Stop Speedrunning ‘Gone Home’

    By Nissa Campbell · Jul 3, 2017 · Social Skills

    Summer Games Done Quick has begun, but there’s a glaring exception on its speedrunning schedule: Gone Home. No? Nothing appealing about slamming through an emotional, narrative-focused game in 2 minutes…

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  • How a Crisis Line Taught One Volunteer How to Listen

    By Nissa Campbell · Jun 29, 2017 · Helping Friends

    For all the time we spend listening in our lives, we don’t tend to be particularly good at it. We’ve devoted whole articles to the skill of listening, and they…

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  • Designing Games for Friendship

    By Nissa Campbell · Jun 1, 2017 · Video Games

    I don’t ask a lot of my online games. If I can play without anyone actively trying to ruin my day, it’s a pretty good fit. But when looking at…

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  • Helping Friends With Empathy Over Sympathy

    By Nissa Campbell · May 9, 2017 · Helping Friends

    The Power of Empathy from Gobblynne on Vimeo. A few months back, Doctor B wrote about the challenge of helping friends who are depressed for Geek & Sundry. He highlighted…

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  • What’s an Online Friendship Really Worth?

    By Nissa Campbell · May 2, 2017 · Social Skills

    Online or off, our friendships matter — but how do you weigh them? Is an online friendship as good as an IRL friendship? Do they provide the same benefits? In…

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  • Turn Away from Isolation for February’s Habitica Challenge

    By Nissa Campbell · Feb 6, 2017 · Helping Yourself

    For many of us, January was a tough month — and February’s off to a challenging start. It’s important that we do all we can to care for ourselves, but…

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  • Today’s a Good Day to Talk About Mental Health

    By Nissa Campbell · Jan 25, 2017 · News

    Opening up about our mental health issues can have a big impact — it lets others know they aren’t alone, and the value of that can’t be measured. Thanks to…

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  • I Have Friends in Many Worlds

    By Take This, and Wren Feeney · Dec 8, 2016 · Stories

    I’ve had the chance to see technology change our world twice in the three decades since I was born. I am a child of the Nineties, that time when the…

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