katydee comments on Rationality Quotes March 2013 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: katydee 01 March 2013 10:32:18AM *  5 points [-]

Rule number one of life: Don't get mad at video games. Corollary to rule number one: Life is a video game.

-Matt Vana

Comment author: Luke_A_Somers 01 March 2013 02:52:13PM 16 points [-]

Can I get mad at the programmers of video games when the game is poorly balanced or designed, or simply broken?

Can I get mad at a video game that implements an agent?

Comment author: DaFranker 01 March 2013 03:01:19PM *  30 points [-]

And what the hell is all this pay-to-win microtransaction crap? Life's devs should change their business model.

Comment author: MixedNuts 01 March 2013 11:25:04PM 15 points [-]

Yeah, but have you seen the graphics? And the NPC AI? I think the physics engine might be buggy though.

Comment author: faul_sname 11 March 2013 10:22:34PM 5 points [-]

The graphics and sound are great when they work, but they seem to be out a solid third of the time.

Comment author: BillyOblivion 02 March 2013 04:46:47AM 2 points [-]

It just makes the game more realistic. After all, IRL you can almost always pay your way out of a situation if you have the coin and the connections.

Comment author: Qiaochu_Yuan 02 March 2013 04:50:26AM 5 points [-]

I think you've misread the comment. DaFranker is already talking about RL.

Comment author: BillyOblivion 02 March 2013 05:05:06AM 0 points [-]

It is entirely possible that I might be confused.

I read "Life" to be a reference to a game played while immersed in, and as an escape from Real Life(tm), and this confusion comes from the term "microtransation", which is rather hard-linked in my skull to "micropayments", aka "the millicent ghetto"

In the version of Real Life I am playing microtransations don't get you out of much of anything worth getting into in the first place.

Comment author: BillyOblivion 02 March 2013 04:45:45AM 4 points [-]

What good does getting mad do? What does it accomplish?

Asks the guy who routinely gets mad at a video game that was made for WIndows 95.

Comment author: Luke_A_Somers 02 March 2013 12:59:29PM *  4 points [-]

Activates the fight or flight response, which increases your power output and generally has effects that in some cases would be useful. We do not frequently encounter these cases these days. And in particular, it's very unlikely that either of the cases described above would be useful times to get mad, unless I'm skilled at sublimating anger into effective writing (first case) or more effective gameplay (second case).

Also, it could get you to stop playing.

Comment author: Matt_Simpson 03 March 2013 06:36:02AM 1 point [-]

What Luke said. Also, signalling "don't mess with me" though perhaps that use isn't relevant here.

Comment author: shminux 01 March 2013 06:17:50PM 5 points [-]

Seems like a face-lift of "Don't Sweat the Small Stuff ... and it's all small stuff".

Comment author: Cthulhoo 01 March 2013 01:27:20PM *  3 points [-]

Also

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

Elbert Hubbard