• BashfulBob [none/use name]
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    22 hours ago

    Goosebumps choose your own adventure novels.

    Primitive, but closer to the mark.

    So what? Why does "I have some agency in this story" make a story bad?

    I don't think it does. The box is just a mechanism. In the same way that a book or a painting can be good or bad, a gameplay loop can, too.

    What actually are you getting at here?

    You can have a Beautiful Skinner Box in the same way you can have a Van Gogh or a Tolstoy novel.

    • Are_Euclidding_Me [e/em/eir]
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      22 hours ago

      So you're using some weird definition of "skinner box" where you simply mean "human inputs lead to various outputs". Why use this definition? By this definition a fucking mathematical function is a skinner box.

      I simply do not understand, in general, what you're trying to say.