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8 (0.3)
9 LUC: ah ben oui, j’l’ai appuyé trois fois dessus.
oh yeah, I pushed it three times on it.
The directive (l. 2) is followed by Luc’s failure to pass the ball. This is ad-
dressed by Luc in the first place, providing an account for the fact that “it”
(l. 5) does not pass. Here the responsibility is shifted by Luc to the computer,
but this attribution is rejected by Raph (l. 7), who refers to the command
Luc should have activated (l. 7). Luc himself refers to the fact that he has re-
peatedly activated it (l. 9). The participants invoke the technical aspects of
the game – such as the ergonomics of the commands on the game controller,
the time lapse characterising the computer’s responses, and the lags ...