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Author Topic: Fitocracy: when life imitates games, everybody wins (except hookers)  (Read 2781 times)

Miggy

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Re: Fitocracy: when life imitates games, everybody wins (except hookers)
« Reply #15 on: November 18, 2011, 08:06:43 am »
Quote from: Sir Finkus on November 18, 2011, 07:24:13 am
Btw, this stuff works for me.  I use a program called Anki to study things.  The way it's set up it kind of feels like a game.  There are even plugins so you can have achievements.  It's rather addictive and effective for me.

Thanks for the link, that looks very useful! I'm going to be memorizing a whole lot of amino-acids next semester and that looks really excellent for that purpose.
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Sir Finkus

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Re: Fitocracy: when life imitates games, everybody wins (except hookers)
« Reply #16 on: November 18, 2011, 08:13:38 am »
Quote from: Miggy on November 18, 2011, 08:06:43 am
Quote from: Sir Finkus on November 18, 2011, 07:24:13 am
Btw, this stuff works for me.  I use a program called Anki to study things.  The way it's set up it kind of feels like a game.  There are even plugins so you can have achievements.  It's rather addictive and effective for me.

Thanks for the link, that looks very useful! I'm going to be memorizing a whole lot of amino-acids next semester and that looks really excellent for that purpose.
It works extremely well, it's just important that you study every day.  Also be careful about adding a bunch of cards at once since they affect how many you'll review later.
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Re: Fitocracy: when life imitates games, everybody wins (except hookers)
« Reply #17 on: November 18, 2011, 04:55:20 pm »
Holy crap, what if this gets competitive?

Now don't imagine the Fitocracy World Champion.
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Re: Fitocracy: when life imitates games, everybody wins (except hookers)
« Reply #18 on: November 18, 2011, 05:33:04 pm »
Will they call all the casual fitocrats noobs, and create alternate accounts just for the opportunity to cheat the matchmaking system and stomp all over them as a cooldown exercise?
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Maybe people should love for the sake of loving, and not with all of these optimization conditions.

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Re: Fitocracy: when life imitates games, everybody wins (except hookers)
« Reply #19 on: November 18, 2011, 06:33:14 pm »
What if they start cheating?
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Re: Fitocracy: when life imitates games, everybody wins (except hookers)
« Reply #20 on: November 18, 2011, 06:44:20 pm »
You're right.  Turn reality into a competitive gaming environment, and someone is bound to find a way to hax it.
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In the land of twilight, under the moon
We dance for the idiots
As the end will come so soon
In the land of twilight

Quote from: Vector on October 06, 2011, 03:14:08 pm
Maybe people should love for the sake of loving, and not with all of these optimization conditions.

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Re: Fitocracy: when life imitates games, everybody wins (except hookers)
« Reply #21 on: November 18, 2011, 06:49:44 pm »
Ah, but then they're punishing themselves by not playing the rules and then not losing weight.
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Re: Fitocracy: when life imitates games, everybody wins (except hookers)
« Reply #22 on: November 18, 2011, 07:08:34 pm »
What if they use speedhacks?
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Re: Fitocracy: when life imitates games, everybody wins (except hookers)
« Reply #23 on: November 18, 2011, 07:10:06 pm »
That's the problem of the Olympic committee, not mine.
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Re: Fitocracy: when life imitates games, everybody wins (except hookers)
« Reply #24 on: November 18, 2011, 09:05:33 pm »
Quote from: Sir Finkus on November 18, 2011, 07:24:13 am
Btw, this stuff works for me.  I use a program called Anki to study things.  The way it's set up it kind of feels like a game.  There are even plugins so you can have achievements.  It's rather addictive and effective for me.
Wow, that is amazingly handy, thanks for sharing.
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