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21 sats \ 3 replies \ @k00b 17h \ on: Inside the race to map GTA 6 before anyone can play it gaming

Something about this reminds me of conspiracy theorizing. It's like we love guessing when there's no downside when we're wrong and only upside when we're right.

Why go through all this trouble, though? What’s the point? The most obvious answer is that people like being right. If GTA 6’s release validates a player's predictions, they’ll be treated like omniscient gods.

I wish there were an obvious way to harvest this kind of energy for something more productive.

100 sats \ 1 reply \ @StillStackinAfterAllTheseYears OP 17h

Something about this reminds me of conspiracy theorizing. It's like we love guessing when there's no downside when we're wrong and only upside when we're right.

Thankfully, the stakes are least a lot lower here.

I wish there were an obvious way to harvest this kind of energy for something more productive.

I feel like that could be said of so many things (including the amount of random frittering on the internet I did this morning instead of anything productive).

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b 17h

This kind of activity seems harnessable in a way that our random frittering does not

50 sats \ 0 replies \ @SimpleStacker 17h

If you measure productivity by economic value, this kind of energy is productive