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Reduce Griefing Through Cognitive Dissonance

June 28th, 2010 No Comments

Say you’re one of the six people left on Earth who are playing World of Warcraft for the first time. The actual gameplay is a little grindy but eerily compelling, so you push through the starting area and decide to PUG Deadmines. You trot through Westfall wheat, dismantle harvesters, and you’re generally minding your own business when you suddenly keel over dead. Annoyed that you must have lost track of your health at a critical moment, you make a quick corpsesprint back to your body. You flop down to munch on Westfall stew and POW! You’re dead again. This time, when you resurrect you see that someone said “kek” in your chat log. Wikipedia tells you what it means and you curse rogues for the first time.

Wouldn’t it be nice if it was also the last?

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Cognitive Dissonance and Cheap Apps

May 29th, 2009 No Comments

One of the funnier properties of human thought is that paying for something will make you think it’s valuable, and the more you pay, the more you think it’s worth. The opposite is true as well, where the less you pay, the less valuable your purchase seems. It’s called cognitive dissonance. When you pay the [...]

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