I just finished watching “The Booth at the End” on Hulu tonight. I will be spoiling plenty in this post, but I suspect many of you won’t ever watch it, even though I enjoyed it. Nevertheless, you’ve been warned. I mention this show because in the last episode the old man in the booth who makes “deals” with people says something that’s awful reminiscent of how some people conceive of games, but he’s not talking about games at all: “A trap they set for themselves to get them through the day.”Read More »