#something resonant with the concept of megabases/builds as artificial spectacle that is not designed to accurately represent the involved
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once again considering the relationship between games-as-gambling, expansively as in games who rely on skinner box design principles to a fault, and the illusory spectacle of youtube niches like pokemon shiny hunters, and how that complicates my enjoyment of a) that content and b) those games.
#peter posts#something resonant with the concept of megabases/builds as artificial spectacle that is not designed to accurately represent the involved#labor. but i think only orthagonally in the the way that environments like twtch/yt incentivize gambling livestream/vlogging#which is the algorithmic rewarding of spectacle and a certain kind of narrative tension/payout (lol) + fantasy of luck or wealth etc#also yes obviously i have a work meeting in 5 minutes. obvs
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