video games ~ ice cube analogy
Apr. 27th, 2026 08:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kossaimanage to find this post again ! ... through reddit , as tumblr continue to be useless in find tumblr posts .
transcript for accessibility - image is direct upload to this journal so hopefully will not break , this just feel too lengthy for alt text .
original post by bidoof
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end of transcript . and definitely agree with that set of tags there ! not really into any gacha-based games anymore , set aside occasionally pop out some songs in project sekai , but this is such good way to think about tasks in games , particularly ones that do have microtransactions , whether or not gacha .
sometimes these tasks can be genuinely fun if slow down , as personally find with candle runs in sky cotl - very rarely do full candle run , and limit that to when truly save up for something specific , but do love to hop around world , maybe goof around with some people or come across newbies to help . other times these tasks just not fun at all , like fight and grind hard to stay on some sort of leaderboard - might push so hard as to self-neglect and still end up with nothing to show because someone else will always push harder , if not just hack and cheat to top !
ice cubes . fantastic analogy .
transcript for accessibility - image is direct upload to this journal so hopefully will not break , this just feel too lengthy for alt text .
original post by bidoof
what farming games in mmorpgs has taught me: i used to think using ice trays to make ice cubes was free but after thinking about it i have to pay the electric bill to power the freezer so every moment that i'm not freezing new trays of ice cubes is a moment that i'm underutilizing the freezer and increasing the cost of ice cubes. i have to constantly swap out ice trays for new ice cubes on an hourly rotation on a 24 hour basis or else i won't produce the maximum amount of ice cubes possible and will underutilize the full potential of my electric bill. i need to stop using all other appliances and utilities in my home to make more ice cubes
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i think about this post so much. whenever a gacha game makes me feel pressured to waste time on a bullshit event i think: am i enjoying this or am i making ice cubes? and then i quit the event lmao
end of transcript . and definitely agree with that set of tags there ! not really into any gacha-based games anymore , set aside occasionally pop out some songs in project sekai , but this is such good way to think about tasks in games , particularly ones that do have microtransactions , whether or not gacha .
sometimes these tasks can be genuinely fun if slow down , as personally find with candle runs in sky cotl - very rarely do full candle run , and limit that to when truly save up for something specific , but do love to hop around world , maybe goof around with some people or come across newbies to help . other times these tasks just not fun at all , like fight and grind hard to stay on some sort of leaderboard - might push so hard as to self-neglect and still end up with nothing to show because someone else will always push harder , if not just hack and cheat to top !
ice cubes . fantastic analogy .
