i'm sort of periodically horrified that video games exist
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Replying to @JimmyRis
it's like an entire portion of the economy solely dedicated to figuring out how to hack human attention i guess it's not the only one but still
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Replying to @QiaochuYuan
Do you feel the same about other entertainment? Movies, board games?
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Replying to @JimmyRis
people don't spend hundreds to thousands of hours on a single movie and board games you at least have to play in person with other people. feels to me like the art of human hacking is noticeably more advanced in the video game area than most others. porn maybe also?
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Replying to @QiaochuYuan
Is “being fun” hacking human attention? The game developer is certainly attempting to create an experience that people want to pay attention to, but that’s seems like blaming an artist for making something cool so people look at it
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Replying to @JimmyRis @QiaochuYuan
The kind of games you play alone tend to be effectively interactive 20 hour long movies, and the kind of games of you play for thousands of hours tend to be pretty social and involve playing with other folks as far as I can tell
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Replying to @JimmyRis @QiaochuYuan
There’s def some games out there on some Candy Crush vibes that are addictive
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there's huge variation in addictiveness / hackiness to genuinely meaningful work of art here (whatever those terms mean). lots of tricky stuff around what it means for a video game experience to be more vs. less meaningful. thoughts haven't cohered enough to fit into a tweet
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