- Players learn developers' values from game systems, not patch notes or announcements.
- Every system (scoreboards, ranked queues, crafting) makes a rhetorical statement about what matters.
- Players intensely audit and datamine systems; contradictions between visible and real data are perceived as lies.
- Player revolts (e.g., solo queue removal, tap-strafing, battle pass changes) show they hear and reject system messages.
- Game feel and system governance are a continuum, covered across seven timescales from 33ms to 7 years.
- The site is structured by timescale: game feel, UX, onboarding, competitive systems, metagame, social systems, live ops.
- Methodology also applies to AI engineering, where similar problems of onboarding, trust, feedback, and gaming arise.