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Re: Achievement Porn

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Post by gridspy » Mon, Mar 01, 2010, 11:01 PM UTC

eru wrote: post #119

gridspy wrote: post #112

Earlier quoted context omitted.

True. However some achievements will last after I am dead, some will not. I'm more interested in the former.

If you die sooner your achievements won't have to last for so long to qualify. (Though that's probably not what you want.) I guess your best stab at achieving immortality in your works is mathematics.

I love developing software. To me achievement is a happy customer.

Who cares if all memory of me is erased in 300 years. Hopefully I will have helped to advance some technology in that time.

Re: Achievement Porn

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Post by aoriste » Thu, Mar 04, 2010, 10:28 PM UTC

endtime wrote: post #87

aoriste wrote: post #67

I had read the first article already, and this one provided an interesting commentary. What struck me most, however, was the striking parallel it makes to a distant, hazily defined, mmo game that a friend and I talk about creating in our twilight years. This game would simply be a massive simulation of a fantasy setting, replete with deep and meaningful (in an in-game sense) game-object detail, but which would offer…

So, real life, but with unicorns and a lower poly-count?

quite - real_life++, and, yes, probably with a much lower poly-count.

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