mefi quotes, no 53 ~ things nerdy

Personally I think the game logic is part of what makes all the Web 2.0 stuff so addictive for a lot of people. Everything page has tons of metrics tied to it: likes, comments, diggs, views, etc. Just try to look at one video on Youtube without just for a second thinking about all the numbers around it. The whole thing is one big "high score" contest.
Dopamine city.
posted by mr.ersatz at 3:17 PM on October 19

The last thing that our government and business leaders should want, is a radicalized IT sector.
posted by wuwei at 1:30 AM on December 9

It's somewhat like ignoring the vegetable drawer of your fridge for a year, then opening it to find a bunch of very grateful sentient tomatoes busily working on their third opera.
posted by yoz at 3:30 AM on December 23

"Java is to Javascript as car is to carpet"
posted by iotic at 11:07 PM on September 7

Using the artificer class and some spells from the Book of Vile Darkness, we can get to true infinities at a level of 5, perhaps less. I do not think it ends at aleph-null infinities, either. Do you see the law in it? Do you see the strange coincidental multiplicative power of business in it?
posted by curuinor at 9:47 PM on March 9

Oh, yeah, and protip: if you feel like you need to cook something right after playing God Of War, just relax. Give it a minute.
posted by mhoye at 8:01 PM on September 26

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