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by _adamb 605 days ago
As someone who has done this to many games over a few decades, I can definitively say: 100% of the time, it ruins the fun of the game.

I can't say exactly why. Maybe you feel like you haven't earned it. Maybe it's the idle nature of farming that we really enjoy...
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fragmede 605 days ago
Depends what you consider fun, and how far you take it. Some people enjoy programming more than repetitive clicking in a GUI. For a clicker game, writing a bot lets you iterate on strategies easier - is it faster to get to level 2 if I buy the upgrade for A or B first? For Trackmania, it lets you get a world record and a YouTube video with 14M views.

https://youtu.be/Dw3BZ6O_8LY

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jauntywundrkind 605 days ago
Yeah. I appreciate the warning & enjoy the personal tail, but it's just that guys story & it's being projected as an absolute.

If I don't enjoy the experience anymore that's fine with me too. I think I'd still feel a sense of accomplishment, feel like I'd advanced as a human and mastered my environment and machines for diving in here.

I don't feel the agency I want to have. These games make me want to extend myself, my agency. Playing them manually offers some very low grade enjoyment but that sense of missing out gnaws at me, and I'm not at all dissuaded by parent trying to ward me off, and if I do end up winning so hard I don't care anymore, me right now would regard that as a victory condition & rief from this pressure I feel about ineffectively plodding through as I do now.

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