DaFranker 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.