alt Hacker NewsA lot of these puzzle/micromanagement games are very similar to stuff folks do for work. I stopped playing an entire category of puzzle games once I realized it was basically programming, which I do all day for a living anyway. Gamified programming is still programming.
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jonahx • today at 12:00 AM
Many programmers program for fun outside of work.
jasonfarnon • today at 1:20 AM
That's what bugged me about the old MS Flight Sim games. It felt like the actual job.
GolfPopper • today at 2:54 AM
But just think of the great training this will provide for your enslaved upload in the future!
I have a problematic relationship with Zachtronics games for this reason.
I love TIS-100, but at some point I realized I was studying the user manual for a fictional computer, trying to learn it's fictional assembly language, to optimize some multicore data flows.... and decided I should probably get paid for doing that in real life instead.