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[-] BashfulBob@hexbear.net 1 points 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@hexbear.net 1 points 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.

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