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Re: Fake food delivery site for the dopamine

#21

Post by netsharc »

morkalork wrote: post #3
forgetfreeman wrote: post #2

What??

Looks like a riff of the fake online shopping site. Kinda funny that the premise could be legit: All the novelty seeking and exploration behaviour and none of financial burden (or in this case, calories)

I somehow want to make a brick and mortar shop with products with 5-digit price tags and the famous brands, but they're all fake, and visitors can pick and choose all the fancy products they want. They can then go to the cashier and go through a simulation of the purchase of all those products, but walk out with nothing... Or maybe even a receipt so you can look at it and pretend you just bought those things, hah.

"The keys to the Lamborghini Aventador, and a Louis Vuitton bag. That'll be 350,000 dollars. How will you pay, ah with the made-up cheque? Certainly sir!".

Charge $40 for half an hour of this sort of entertainment (or more for a virtual chequebook with a bigger account behind it), rake in the bucks...

Re: Fake food delivery site for the dopamine

#24

Post by starkparker »

netsharc wrote: post #21
morkalork wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Looks like a riff of the fake online shopping site. Kinda funny that the premise could be legit: All the novelty seeking and exploration behaviour and none of financial burden (or in this case, calories)

I somehow want to make a brick and mortar shop with products with 5-digit price tags and the famous brands, but they're all fake, and visitors can pick and choose all the fancy products they want. They can then go to the cashier and go through a simulation of the purchase of all those products, but walk out with nothing... Or maybe even a receipt so you can look at it and pretend you just bought those things, hah. "T…

So effectively a downtime session of D&D where everyone levels up and goes shopping for gear.

Re: Fake food delivery site for the dopamine

#25

Post by layer8 »

> It's just to replicate the ritual of ordering food and give you the dopamine that the real process gives you.

I’m confused. How does the food-ordering process give you dopamine? It generally just gives me anxiety due to the uncertainties involved, until the food arrives in good condition, which here it won’t.

Re: Fake food delivery site for the dopamine

#26

Post by em-bee »

netsharc wrote: post #21
morkalork wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Looks like a riff of the fake online shopping site. Kinda funny that the premise could be legit: All the novelty seeking and exploration behaviour and none of financial burden (or in this case, calories)

I somehow want to make a brick and mortar shop with products with 5-digit price tags and the famous brands, but they're all fake, and visitors can pick and choose all the fancy products they want. They can then go to the cashier and go through a simulation of the purchase of all those products, but walk out with nothing... Or maybe even a receipt so you can look at it and pretend you just bought those things, hah. "T…

NFTs instead of nothing? equally worthless, but you can pretend otherwise

Re: Fake food delivery site for the dopamine

#27

Post by em-bee »

starkparker wrote: post #24
netsharc wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I somehow want to make a brick and mortar shop with products with 5-digit price tags and the famous brands, but they're all fake, and visitors can pick and choose all the fancy products they want. They can then go to the cashier and go through a simulation of the purchase of all those products, but walk out with nothing... Or maybe even a receipt so you can look at it and pretend you just bought those things, hah. "T…

So effectively a downtime session of D&D where everyone levels up and goes shopping for gear.

shopping LARP

Re: Fake food delivery site for the dopamine

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Post by tom_ »

layer8 wrote: post #25

> It's just to replicate the ritual of ordering food and give you the dopamine that the real process gives you. I’m confused. How does the food-ordering process give you dopamine? It generally just gives me anxiety due to the uncertainties involved, until the food arrives in good condition, which here it won’t.

The link is to the BingeEatingDisorder subreddit. From the link,

> I know that at least for me, the actual process of ordering food delivery is part of the addiction

Re: Fake food delivery site for the dopamine

#29

Post by teraflop »

layer8 wrote: post #25

> It's just to replicate the ritual of ordering food and give you the dopamine that the real process gives you. I’m confused. How does the food-ordering process give you dopamine? It generally just gives me anxiety due to the uncertainties involved, until the food arrives in good condition, which here it won’t.

Well the context is that it was posted to a subreddit for people who struggle with binge eating. So I guess you can think of it as the equivalent of sucking on a lollipop when you're craving a cigarette.

Re: Fake food delivery site for the dopamine

#30

Post by [deleted] »

tom_ wrote: post #28
layer8 wrote: post #25

> It's just to replicate the ritual of ordering food and give you the dopamine that the real process gives you. I’m confused. How does the food-ordering process give you dopamine? It generally just gives me anxiety due to the uncertainties involved, until the food arrives in good condition, which here it won’t.

The link is to the BingeEatingDisorder subreddit. From the link, > I know that at least for me, the actual process of ordering food delivery is part of the addiction

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