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Mohrta

Mohrta is a nonlinear FPS adventure through the strange and otherworldly. Explore a vast selection of unique environments, slay an enormous cast of bizarre creatures, and upgrade your arsenal of multifaceted weapons.

Database consumption

Database consumption (Japanese: データベース消費, romanized: dētabēsu shōhi) refers to a way of content consumption in which people do not consume a narrative itself, but rather consume the constituent elements of the narrative.[1]: 240  The concept was coined by the Japanese critic Hiroki Azuma in the early 2000s.

Less rice for your labor-value - The Wobbly World of Miftah's Words

...and more exploitation for your location!

Mosa Lina

a hostile interpretation of the immersive sim, where nothing is planned, and everything works

Tightwads and spendthrifts: An interdisciplinary review

Consumers rely on a “pain of paying” to help deter their spending. While this is beneficial for some consumers, others experience levels of pain that create problems. “Tightwads” experience too much pain when considering spending and therefore spend less than they would ideally like to spend. By contrast, “spendthrifts” experience too little pain and therefore spend more than they would ideally like to spend. Neither are happy with how they handle money. In the decade since the tightwad‐spendthrift construct was introduced, much has been learned about what it is and is not (e.g., frugality, greed), what contextual factors are likely to reduce its importance, how it plays a role within romantic relationships, and when it might first emerge in childhood. This paper reviews the wide range of interdisciplinary research relevant to the tightwad‐spendthrift construct and proposes several directions for new research.

Museletter #353: Deadly Optimism, Useful Pessimism

What's really needed is a realistic sense of what's possible, and a dogged determination to heal division, protect nature and culture, and build sustainable alternatives.

Who Deserves to Exist? Gender Fear and False Promises of Identity-Driven Neocolonial Aid - শুদ্ধস্বর

Non-profit industrial complex and neocolonial philanthropic entities are working toward their own self-preservation rather than fundamentally restructuring power and society.

Ali Alkhatib: On techno-optimism

A History of Turning Away

What does it mean, truly, to turn away from something?

When Convenient Illusions Hold Precedence...

Language, Substance, and Money are intermediaries which crumble under weight of inspection

You don't have to gamble for gambling to ruin your life

How gambling is eroding empathy, destroying relationships, and changing our culture — even for people who never bet.

Spenders and savers, tightwads and spendthrifts: Individual correlates of personal ratings of being a spender or a saver.

How to know what you really want and be free from mimetic desire | Psyche Guides

From career choices to new purchases, use René Girard’s mimetic theory to resist the herd and forge your own path in life

Self-Control and Optimal Goals: A Theoretical Analysis

Consumers set goals to achieve a variety of objectives such as losing weight, saving for retirement, and achieving better health. A large body of literature in psychology and consumer behavior shows that goals can help consumers achieve these objectives. However, there is almost no research that examines how we should set optimal goals. The purpose of this paper is to develop a parsimonious framework that examines how goals can help performance and how we should set optimal goals. We use the literature on hyperbolic discounting to model these issues. Our results show that goals can often increase performance but can also sometimes encourage procrastination. We show that some goals are worse than having no goals, even when the goals are achieved and the consumer exerts more effort because of the goal. We also find that the presence of goals can lead to myopic consumers behaving as if they were hyperopic. Our results also show that the most difficult goals should be assigned to consumers with moderate levels of motivation and self-control problems. We also find that it is sometimes optimal to set goals that are never achieved.