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the gameplay value of a cardboard box increases exponentially upon the
introduction of a box-cutter [to make holes in the box] and varmint sized toys
[to play whack-a-mole with]
also, it's important to let your can win about 65% of the time - just enough to
keep them interested (cats lose attention) but not enough to make them feel
like it's easy.
That's why it's important not to use your hands as a toy, because your hands
always hurt. It gives them a feeling they're craving, both of attention but
also success.
65% is more addictive, just ask any designer for multiplayer games. Well... 65
is my number, but there's a percentage (depending on the game) that players
have to win if you want to keep their attention. If they win more than that,
they lose interest. if they lose more, then they get frustrated. It's a
delicate balance that ideally would be measured by AI [cursed] and adjusted per
player. That way you could get maximum engagement and
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how about this: a game where you have to enter the amount of time you have to
play it when you boot it up.
"I want to play for an hour and a half"
after your allotted time, you get kicked off and it won't restart unless you
use a password.
It's a trifle of a gesture, really just an affectation of a task, like using a
-f flag in Linux or saying "are you sure u want to delete these files?" on an
application.
Funny how the most tech that most people interact with most of the time is
their phone, and their smart TV. Generally that's about it, and they only use
one or two apps in their phone. They might change the background, if they're
the artistic type, but most people are just fine with the defaults.
"Uh yeah I think the settings app is somewhere around here... darn it's always
so frustrating when I'm connecting to wifi, what is the tech industry even
doing? I don't want to deal with [opening a menu, selecting "wifi/connections",
picking the SSID, entering the password, and then going back to uber eats]"
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side note, but the reason PINs were invented was so that people didn't have to
type in a long-ass password.
"it's only more insecure when it's on a network" - someone who didn't design
every product after that
(actually no that's bullshit because the first PIN numbers were probably used a
long-ass time ago, and besides it's not like a short password was all that
uncommon - when asked "what's the password" usually people will say something
like "applesauce" or "butterflies" but really the better way is "10, 16, 26,
46, 99, butts")
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would be nice if you could get suggestions for which fediverse instance to use
depending on the AI analyzed contents of your posts. Could be a way to mitigate
the social cost of banning someone, by saying "hey, we collectively are going
to pool our computing resources to generate an expensive and detailed report of
which other instances you could join." that way it doesn't feel like you've
been kicked out into the cold.
or literally just... have someone suggest one, idk. Basically it's like "hey
you're in the wrong place, go to one of these instead" instead of "[expletives
and swearing and general expressions of hatred, derision, and distaste]"
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for those who live forever in our transhumanist reality, I wonder what's next
beyond transgender transition? transcendence of social norms is a skill, not a
habit. Queer is a rejection of normalcy, something that is actively done.
What's more normal than never having any fun? Clearly "normal" isn't built for
the human condition, clearly "normalcy" is shallow and been done.
considering the amount of people who are really into some culture like
"anime-cons" or "baseball watcher" or "golfer" or "other such hobbys like
fishing or guns"
... normal never existed, it's just a collection of personalities (developed
throughout the history of humanity) that collectively seem to be fun.
"if transitioning is to gender as blossoming is to [the concept of] flowers,
then what is the concept of global warming to the earth we stand on?"
I'm kind of a witch. I'm not really femme, so I don't feel right calling myself
one of them, but I'm something of the sort. I use "she/her" pronouns because
they reflect my softness of c
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║ I wish I could hire someone who was into business or something who would │
║ analyze the things that a non-neurotypical did and identify places for them to │
║ apply themselves in a way that was personally fulfilling. Like, a guide or a │
║ mentor, except not teaching. More like... the part of the job where you guide │
║ someone because you care about them, and you want to do well. Now, how to │
║ translate that into an economic reward? Well, that's the hard part isn't it. │
║ Any kind of social impact you want to have must be carefully considered, and │
║ unfortunately a lot of people recently have started to poison the well. Like, │
║ optimizing for the types of human behavior that generate the most profit, but │
║ aren't necessarily the kind we want to bring forth to the future in all of our │
║ kind. Like, lowered attention span, quickness to anger, that kind of thing. │
║ Those are symptoms of the internet. │
║ │
║ there's quite a few good things about it, like wikipedia and BASH scripting and │
║ local communications (local to the planet 99% of the time) (: │
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a "post privacy" option that's private to everyone in your hemisphere.
or "anyone on the antipode https://www.antipodesmap.com/ of where I'm at" or at
least, that half of the map
something that's basically "I don't want people nearby me to read this" like,
having a penpal on the other side of the world.
could add a way to filter by them, and only for example show you people who are
somewhere completely remote. that way you could have conversations that took
place one message per day.
design it such that it's encouraged to make posts, and then (like Reddit) you
can have a back-and-forth conversation that's kept closer to home.
Twitter was all about tweeting, about shouting into the cacophany of noise.
Have you ever heard a flock of birds?
Reddit was like "yeah I, a denizen of the internet, am communicating using the
power of lightning-powered-technology to talk to someone in uzbekistan"
errrr that's how it felt to me. Each subreddit was less a home, and more of a
topic list. but then discord happened, and : \
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