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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:
- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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whats wrong with game achivments?
For me, it's when people complain that a game/system/platform doesn't have them. Some games and systems don't need or want to gamify playing games and that's okay
They didn't invent them. The Xbox 360 already had achievements years before them.
I didn't say Valve did. I said why I don't like achievement systems or, I guess more accurately, why I don't think everything needs them
They're nothing but a skinner box that's supposed to keep you playing games for longer. It's the same type of instant gratification built into most mobile game, but applied to everything else.
In a system where you pay once for the game, isn't that a good thing? It lets you enjoy the game for longer instead of making you constantly buy new games, thus spending less money for the same amount of enjoyment.
It's meant to keep you playing after you stop enjoying said game. Besides, pay once? Shit like this is very often paired with the free-to-play and microstransactions model.
I really dont think its that bad. I can see the argument that they should be able to be disabled for people with OCD or something. I used to feel some kind of FOMO for not 100% every game.