[wantsanagent]

Ironically variable reward schedules are the most powerful reward schedules for maintaining behavior in the absence of further rewards. I know you're not a rat/pidgeon but it's just funny you picked the one that classical behavioral psychology would say is close to the most influential.

[p1necone]

It's also crucial to some genres working at all though. Can you imagine a roguelike /without/ randomized loot?