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Fun things are possibly addictive, news at 11, and our follow up story: Companies may exploit fun things to make you do more fun things to make money. We discuss this with a human mouse hybrid that runs a theme park.
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Buncha video games addicts crawling outta the woodwork to justify their addictions as "not that bad" time
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Sep 19, 2023 23:14
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You can literally just pick up a behavioral economics textbook and roll your face on it and addiction pops out Addictive elements can be used for good, like rewarding exploration with a tangible sense of character progression. It’s actually pretty easy, we have decades of games as data points and hundreds of millions of dollars to throw at milquetoast garbage apparently
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Sep 19, 2023 23:19
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yep, all these miserable twisted creatures huddled over their controllers, hands shaking, just one more procgen abandoned factory with 6 ecliptic mercs outside and 12 inside, the woodwork is crawling with them itt
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Sep 19, 2023 23:21
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games don't addict me I just enjoy them, dopamine release on its own has nothing to do with addiction I just love to cum
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Sep 19, 2023 23:28
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don't like this game though, played it until a guy told me to get on his ship and got bored at how ugly it felt to play
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Sep 19, 2023 23:29
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Knot My President! posted:You can literally just pick up a behavioral economics textbook and roll your face on it and addiction pops out nah, it doesnt feel that good. the book's surface is too hard. people get addicted to all kinds of weird poo poo, thats true, but i dont think rolling faces on economics textbooks is one to worry about.
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Sep 19, 2023 23:30
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sex excellence posted:games don't addict me I just enjoy them, dopamine release on its own has nothing to do with addiction I just love to cum We live in a capitalist hellworld, if anything a lot of people play games to get away from reality, and who can blame them. Bad Purchase posted:yep, all these miserable twisted creatures huddled over their controllers, hands shaking, just one more procgen abandoned factory with 6 ecliptic mercs outside and 12 inside, the woodwork is crawling with them itt "Send me your huddled gamers, your wretched noobs yearning to be free."
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Sep 19, 2023 23:30
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Bad Purchase posted:yep, all these miserable twisted creatures huddled over their controllers, hands shaking, just one more procgen abandoned factory with 6 ecliptic mercs outside and 12 inside, the woodwork is crawling with them itt But this one has notes about what happened in the factory and how capitalism wasn't the best choice of a system. I am very smart
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Sep 19, 2023 23:33
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I have a lot of complaints but I'm enjoying it. Wander around, shoot stuff, sell stuff. Scratches a similar itch to Sid Meier's Pirates I think. I've almost completely forgotten that there's a storyline or even sidequests. Just landing on planets, visiting abandoned whatamawhosits, and shooting whoever. I have bad taste in video games. I knew that already. I don't care.
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Sep 20, 2023 00:19
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lol at the thread title cxhnage
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Sep 20, 2023 03:11
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Bad Purchase posted:yep, all these miserable twisted creatures huddled over their controllers, hands shaking, just one more procgen abandoned factory with 6 ecliptic mercs outside and 12 inside, the woodwork is crawling with them itt 
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Sep 20, 2023 03:15
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Starfield is cool and very fun and I enjoyed it
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Sep 20, 2023 03:22
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I don't like Starfield...I love it!
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Sep 20, 2023 04:04
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sex excellence posted:games don't addict me I just enjoy them, dopamine release on its own has nothing to do with addiction I just love to cum I’m big time addicted to cumming. Ripping fat loads, barfing up dick ropes etc.
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Sep 20, 2023 04:27
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Toxic Mental posted:Starfield is cool and very fun and I enjoyed it Wrong.
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Sep 20, 2023 05:14
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smoobles posted:Wrong. 
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Sep 20, 2023 05:41
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Right.
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Sep 20, 2023 05:45
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You know the citizen complained about the oxygen not tasting good. Honestly that really helped me become engrossed in the world of STarf
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Sep 20, 2023 05:51
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in space no one can hear you scream as you take an arrow to the knee
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Sep 20, 2023 06:11
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If you were to buy starfield from a starfield vendor it would deplete 90% of their funds at any given time
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Sep 20, 2023 06:26
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WAR CRIME GIGOLO posted:If you were to buy starfield from a starfield vendor it would deplete 90% of their funds at any given time Lol
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Sep 20, 2023 06:26
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Some of the stuff is funny because it definitely derived from playtesting. And I wonder like what the gently caress happened to make them make these changes? Were people just running around with gigantic ships like 2 hours into the game and they had to cut everything to 10% of the actual value? A cool concept would be having planets with diverse resources and the ability to transport resources between those planets. With autonomous building up of those planets at certain resource points. Then you could actually have fully automated gay luxury communism
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Sep 20, 2023 06:28
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I had some killer chains in X3 back in the day
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Sep 20, 2023 06:29
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Witcher 3 is the greatest role playing game of all time.
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Sep 20, 2023 06:31
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I think the"games are made to be addictive" thing mostly applies to multiplayer and mobile free to play stuff where length of play directly correlates with money spent; Bethesda luckily still uses the full price model, but the negative trend there seems to be to cram in as many features as possible to pad your marketing material, generating hype, and make all the money on presales before people realize all the promises were at best misleading. At which point being $70 down, they will come up with crazy narratives to rationalize their purchases.
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Sep 20, 2023 07:00
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WAR CRIME GIGOLO posted:A cool concept would be having planets with diverse resources and the ability to transport resources between those planets. With autonomous building up of those planets at certain resource points. Then you could actually have fully automated gay luxury communism You can do that in the game though
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Sep 20, 2023 07:05
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is it worse than mass effect andromeda (which was an insanely boring shitheap and real disappointment after the first trilogy)
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Sep 20, 2023 07:16
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No, it's actually pretty similar to ME2 in a lot of ways
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Sep 20, 2023 07:40
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deep dish peat moss posted:I apparently played 14 hours of Witcher 3 in 2018 and the only thing I can remember about it is that it had an ubisoft-style map and you get a horse that follows the roads automatically same and i had to stop cos it had kind of a porny embarrassing cringey vibe there was a really good storyline with some red king guy but i can’t remember the deets
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Sep 20, 2023 09:10
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WAR CRIME GIGOLO posted:Some of the stuff is funny because it definitely derived from playtesting. And I wonder like what the gently caress happened to make them make these changes? Were people just running around with gigantic ships like 2 hours into the game and they had to cut everything to 10% of the actual value? you can def do that with the outposts but theres no point. and it's kind of grating to set up
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Sep 20, 2023 13:39
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git apologist posted:same and i had to stop cos it had kind of a porny embarrassing cringey vibe so far i can see what the core gameplay loop is gonna be and i can see being engrossed if it picks up, but right now all i get is generic fantasy rpg with a clunky camera and movement and a protagonist that talks to himself constantly im gonna stick with it cause of its reputation, for now
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Sep 20, 2023 13:42
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hot cocoa on the couch posted:all i get is generic fantasy rpg with a clunky camera and movement and a protagonist that talks to himself constantly first time playing a bethesda game or...?
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Sep 20, 2023 13:44
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Peggy Edson posted:first time playing a bethesda game or...? no im talking witcher 3
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Sep 20, 2023 13:44
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oh sorry I couldn't stand W3 after an hour and never played it again
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Sep 20, 2023 13:45
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is there anyone in this game who ISNT essential by the way? every fool ive tried to ice just stumbles around and gets back up like nothing happened. hell i was just blasting away consultation members at one point and theyd all just sort of shrug while it was happening. wtf? am i really supposed to let the shopowner guy live after he just used the words "nightmare fuel" at me? call me a psychopath all you want but npcs in morrowind stayed dead and oblivion's essentials were far outnumbered by the murderable. gently caress sake OUTER WORLDS lets you kill everyone. is todd howard just a prissy little baby? maybe that's why half the dialogue options feel like a pinterest about me page
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Sep 20, 2023 13:50
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Peggy Edson posted:oh sorry people freaking love this game dog...... they say its teh best of all time...
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Sep 20, 2023 13:50
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play witcher 1
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Sep 20, 2023 13:52
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cumpantry posted:play witcher 1 i played maybe half of it before i couldnt take any more
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Sep 20, 2023 13:53
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