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 @user-950 
 
 ah yes but how could anyone hurt me if I don't make myself vulnerable. It'd
 simply be unfair to play a game without any stakes. But if you insist...
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=== SIMILARITY RANKED ===

--- #1 fediverse/6321 ---
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 "hey. wanna stretch with me? oh, whatever you want. I'll be doing my own
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--- #2 fediverse/6294 ---
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 if you play optimally, you'll never get any chance to make decisions.
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--- #3 fediverse/5345 ---
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 you can't win every battle, but if you're losing then you've lost.
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--- #4 fediverse/3917 ---
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 people who don't play games are fucked in the afterlife, just sayin'
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--- #5 fediverse/6283 ---
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 please please don't lose the penny! it's one of my favorite five flat penny
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--- #6 fediverse/1771 ---
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 if you can't find them when you need them, then you don't have them.
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--- #7 fediverse/329 ---
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 @user-241 okayyyy if I must =P =P
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--- #8 fediverse/1588 ---
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 @user-1035 
 
 Even better if you say "you do you too"
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--- #9 fediverse/1558 ---
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 Just because you haven't won yet, doesn't mean you've lost.
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--- #10 fediverse/3927 ---
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 okay but why has nobody ever approached AI from a game design perspective like
 seriously there should be researchers who are multidisciplined in this kind of
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--- #11 messages/1337 ---
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 How can people like you live as you do when people like me starve?
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--- #12 bluesky#4 ---
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 what if I played a video game
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--- #13 fediverse/4896 ---
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 @user-1748 
 
 they want you drained and overloaded.
 
 makes it harder to take care of others.
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 I would never kill myself
 
 just want to put it out there.
 
 I'd rather face torture and shame and confinement than die by my own hand.
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--- #15 fediverse/5239 ---
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 I play video games to help me think just like programmers play video games to
 help them sleep
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--- #16 messages/377 ---
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 infinite dedication implies stagnation, don't be so quick to trust.
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--- #17 messages/1231 ---
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 Has it ever not been? Logic beats gold. Just ask strategy and famine.
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--- #18 fediverse/97 ---
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 @user-110 Exactly! I play games to practice strategy and empathy, not to stand
 triumphant over a virtual foe. Why should I care for the lessons of others
 when mine so often go unlearnt?
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--- #19 messages/483 ---
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 "hey listen! Do this thing to hurt me! Build the infrastructure to do it so
 that you can use it on people who deserve it!"
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--- #20 messages/1116 ---
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 What works for me might not work for another,
 
 But 
 
 What works for me might work for another.
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