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What makes improvement feel satisfying?

Overthinking thinking

I like thinking about why I enjoy the things I do. If you asked me why I’m a games journalist, that’s probably the best pithy answer I could come up with.

So, why do I particularly like competitive multiplayer games? That’s a tricky one.

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Matt Cox: Once the leader of Rock Paper Shotgun's Youth Contingent, Matt is an expert in multiplayer games, deckbuilders and battle royales. He occasionally pops back into the Treehouse to write some news for us from time to time, but he mostly spends his days teaching small children how to speak different languages in warmer climates.
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