trem
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- Comment on batman effect 1 week ago:
I mean, I can imagine very well that you can just tell from their emotions.
Like, let’s say this was their emotion timeline without superhero costume:
🧍♂️😃🙂😮💨❌
If they’d just generally be in a better mood, the emotion timeline would look like this:
🦸😁😄😃🙂😮💨❌
So, their mood starts higher, but there’s the same rate of decline.
Whereas, if they persevere, it’s more like this:🦸😃🙂😮💨😔😑❌
So, similar starting mood as without costume, but the decline is only at the start until they hit the point where they would normally give up.
And then they muster the perseverance to continue, despite being in a bad mood from that point on.Obviously, you’d need to formalize that, and not every kid will show the same emotions. But when averaged, I do think that gives you a scientific result.
- Comment on batman effect 1 week ago:
A while ago, I also heard of a study, where they had kids do a task until the kids would give up. And when they let the kids dress up as their favorite superhero, the kids would persevere much longer.
Obviously, the kids being in a better mood can be a factor, but if I remember correctly, it was also a conclusion that the kids persevered, because they thought the superhero would persevere in this situation.
You can probably tell quite well, when their mood falls off a cliff, but they still push on, so could certainly see that being a conclusion… - Comment on New Vegas devs Obsidian are reportedly working on a new Fallout game, and only Microsoft could make news I've waited half my life for taste this bitter 3 weeks ago:
Feels like a weird decision from a business point of view, too, to gut your studio right as you come up with new projects for it to tackle.
Maybe those devs aren’t needed in the early stages of these new projects and they expect to be able to rehire when they are. That’s still short-term thinking, but at this point, I would be surprised, if anything at Microsoft happened even with just this much rationale.
There’s probably one decision that they need to milk their cash cows some more, and an entirely separate decision that they need to bolster their numbers for shareholders to be happy with this quarter. And the only time those decisions crossed paths, is in some middle manager who’s told to make the impossible work…