Yet, he also asserts his independence from the player in the game's ending, casting the dog tags aside and vowing to form a self of his own choosing. ... With this in mind, we would like to explore these themes from three perspectives: the virtual (that of the character within a narrative), the actual (that of the player outside the game context), and the position between the two formed by a player-character relationship of shared identity (that of the player playing). ... The final two switches, 435 and 450 volts, were simply labeled "XXX- (Obedience, 28). ... Early on in the Tanker C...

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An athlete, tired from a long day's winning game, might feel eustress in bodily fatigue and exhaustion. A medical student, studying hard for final exams might experience eustress after having performed well on his last exam of the semester. ...

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For example, children not included in a group of peers at play may rationalise by stating that they really did not want to play "that game" anyway. ... The final mode of defence mentioned by Freud is regression. ...

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