{"id":1059,"date":"2005-12-24T00:46:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-24T07:46:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2005-12-24T01:03:35","modified_gmt":"2005-12-24T08:03:35","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/node\/1059\/","title":{"rendered":"The world, upside down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While <a href=\"http:\/\/www.raphkoster.com\/?p=214\">I (re)read<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>rewards were scaled by the necessities of storytelling<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Today the rewards are scaled to prevent the storytelling (oops, there&#8217;s nothing. So repeat 20 times). This says a lot.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s see. The reward is the drug (our brain produces drugs, this is no news). In the past the drug was excused by a necessity. Today we have the drugs, and more elaborate (because artificial) drugs. But this is not anymore excused, just exploited. We got rewards but not reasons for the reward.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Lastly, sidekicking and mentoring, which I believe were first seen in City of Heroes \u2014 wow, what a brilliant hack! We\u2019ll allow people to temporarily change level to get past all the barriers we just put up because we included power differentiating levels in the first place!<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ahah. Just brilliant.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>The upshot is that whereas in D&#038;D levels were used to bring people together, in MMOs today they are used to keep people apart.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While I (re)read. rewards were scaled by the necessities of storytelling Today the rewards are scaled to prevent the storytelling (oops, there&#8217;s nothing. So repeat 20 times). This says a lot. Let&#8217;s see. The reward is the drug (our brain produces drugs, this is no news). In the past the drug was excused by a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}