Are achievements in video games actually failures?
Assuming "The Matrix", all success is actually failure.
Submitted 2 days ago by Plesiohedron@lemmy.cafe to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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cloudless@piefed.social 1 day ago
Plesiohedron@lemmy.cafe 1 day ago
the “hopelessly lost” aspect of the matrix bears here. You are disinclined to question the reality of a game that you are successful in. Without that doubt you won’t escape it. So success becomes failure then.
Video games lack that “hopelessly lost” aspect. I mean, nobody mistakes them for reality and never comes back.
Plesiohedron@lemmy.cafe 2 days ago
Except for poetry. When you wake up from your dreamcoffin you’ll still have your poetry skills and a few memorized poems.
Arkouda@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
If the benchmark of success is having the skills to do something in the “real world”, everything you do with a “real world” component would be successful including Mathematics, Creative writing, language skills, critical thinking skills, etc.
Plesiohedron@lemmy.cafe 1 day ago
That’s a big if. And “real world” is shakey too. Yr running with a stretchy hypothetical here.
Zahille7@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I don’t even know what you’re trying to say