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who up choking on the weight of their sins and the bile of their desires?

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bitch you better not be sitting and staring at your old wounds forever wtf

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listen I’m the most pro-gold digging person you will ever meet. but people who think a future spouse asking them to sign a prenup is somehow an indication they can never trust them are bonkers. every marriage should have a prenup. you should protect your premarital assets too, even if that asset is a $10,000 used car.

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Despite the name, positive feedback loops aren’t always good. They just mean a cycle that compounds on itself. They also help to explain why things are and are not powerful when analyzing game design.

Let’s take deck building in a card game. Maybe you want to pull off an awesome combo. However, to set up the combo, you have to pay more with regard to the resources used.

Smaller words: you spent 10 cards and 5 turns to do what could be done with 3 cards in 2 turns.

Why is this a positive feedback loop? Because often times you’re making THINGS in this card game. You’re making “progress” but that progress is immediately used.

Then, because these games are competitive, the loop is broken at some point. Somebody blows up your board in a card game. Now you are LOSING progress to get your strategy working again. Since you dedicated your deck to this, completing the strategy is your only option but this is lost cause.

Even winning with the deck isn’t good in the long run. Sure, it may be fun to pull off this combo but that one win is an outlier.

In any game design, these death spiral positive feedback loops should be avoided. If a player is giving more than they are getting or if they are only breaking even, then that’s not good. That system crashes and fails. When it does, the only reasonable strategy is to bail and start fresh. Repeating the cycle isn’t worth it.

Don’t fall into the trap. Always be aware of the following formula:

Resources used + time used + reputation wagered < total gain - expenses + 1 unit

That plus 1 unit is important. The cycle must have excess profit somewhere else the whole system rests on constant upgrade growth or perfect outcomes. This never happens.

If there’s no true profit, there’s something wrong.

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I know you seem proud of this but dude this is horrific

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friend who says he's "busy having nightmares" whenever you ask why he can't hang out with you

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sorry i wasnt listening but thats awesome unless it isnt of course

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I think some of you forgot that autistic people sometimes act strange and say things that are poorly worded and speak with incorrect tone and misunderstand or miss social cues because they are autistic

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why can’t things be easy peasy lemon squeezy

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why can’t things be easy peasy lemon squeezy

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“Fatherless behavior” stop giving my DAD credit for all the work my MOM put into making me a terrible person!! Stop erasing women in history!!

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are you in hate with me