After a year of uncontrolled growth, my flowers are looking indistinguishable from weeds! #AnimalCrossing #ACNH #NintendoSwitch
In this episode, people learn NFTs are just expensive hyperlinks and have the same weaknesses.
https://news.slashdot.org/story/21/03/29/2343254/why-peoples-expensive-nfts-keep-vanishing
To summarize, Bartle scales gamer psychology on four dimensions: Achievers, Explorers, Socializers, and Killers.
The Angry DM extends this to eight: Sensory Pleasure, Fantasy (Escapism), Narrative, Challenge, Fellowship, Discovery, Expression, Submission (aka mindless gameplay loops)
I think Angry's addition of Expression and Submission are particularly important for games like, say, Animal Crossing.
As someone who attended many Games Studies PhD defenses and has heard the Bartle taxonomy more times than I care to count, I recently saw this article by the Angry DM which covers "8 kinds of fun" that I find more nuanced than Bartle's "4 motivations for gamers".
https://theangrygm.com/gaming-for-fun-part-1-eight-kinds-of-fun/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartle_taxonomy_of_player_types
MTGSTX Spoiler
I love Anna Steinbauer's art style. https://scryfall.com/card/stx/278/rowan-scholar-of-sparks-will-scholar-of-frost #MTGSTX
[stx] Professor of Symbology
Creature — Kor Cleric
When Professor of Symbology enters the battlefield, learn. (You may reveal a Lesson card you own from outside the game and put it into your hand, or discard a card to draw a card.)
phone annoying
Long story short, instead of setting up my smartphone with the new carrier, it's in wifi only mode while my old alcatel flip phone has service now.
Software developer and proud Ph.D. dropout.
My main interests are game design, federated application theorycrafting, machine learning, educational psychology, and stuff like that. I'm also a huge #ElectricVehicle nerd.
I live on a #SingleUserInstance, so sometimes I can miss conversation context due to federation issues.