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[-] zerozaku@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

You term it in a very positive way but I term it as nothing but "hopium".

The hope of may be you will do better in the next game or in the next next game or the one after - gamer developers use this to keep us hooked is what I believe.

You will definitely get better aa you keep playing the game and this improvement will give you even more of that hopium drug. It is a cycle which cannot be broken unless you get genuinely bored of the game.

[-] deus@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Okay, and what's the negative part?

[-] richieadler@lemmy.myserv.one 5 points 1 year ago

Life doesn't work that way. You have only one life.

[-] entropicshart@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago

Does t mean you can’t try again in the one life!

[-] motorwerks@sopuli.xyz 8 points 1 year ago

Correct. Failure in reality doesn't generally imply death. Unless, of course, you're a bank robber. In most other cases it implies learned knowledge that helps your succeed in your current objective. Failing during a job interview, for example, helps you get better at job interviews.

[-] richieadler@lemmy.myserv.one 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah, but then the comparison with video games fails; that was my point 😄

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