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Game addiction, freemium marketing strategies and psycology When I was younger I played this game obsessively and didn't understand why I couldn't stop. Knowledge is important for creating a solution to a problem. Freemium is a concept that should be understood by youth and even adults in our societies. Freemium is the word used to represent the marketing strategy behind "F2P games" - free access to most content but a fee for the contained content i.e cubes/cosmetics/dungeons/servers. For a humorous and detailed breakdown, this SouthPark episode demonstrates how the psychology behind the marketing works Most of you probably already understand the relationship between dopamine release, addiction and gaming. If you don't you really

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sky, stars thoughts If our mind is really all there is in existence then everything else is just a simulation from our brain. Sleeping could just be a buffer used to load the next day's events and calculate all the effects of the previous day. This could be why when we are sleep deprived we function much more sluggishly because the brain is allocating its processing power to load further into the future in real time. It could also be the reason why we hallucinate when we are really sleep deprived because the brain isn't able to keep up with the loading process thus its generating glitchier and more unstable future. copypasta

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This doesnt make sense to me 1. Child labor laws don't let people work till they're ~16-18 2. Educational laws either force kids into school or foster care A. Children have only been exempt from work for the past 80 years. 1800 years of quality work by 'kids' B. Children have a fraction of the attention span of an adult, making lengthy 8 hr school days much less effective for a kid than an adult. C. What is taught to a person as a child will stick with them - make it useful. Why do I know how to write in cursive? I never used it once even in highschool, so much wasted brain power. Doesn't it make sense to allow a portion of the child population to work? Some people know that they aren't going to be a Scientist or a Lawyer or an Engineer, wo

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