Attach a number to something and people will try to modify it. MMOs have known this for a while. (An amusing take.)
The Kill Everyone Project was almost exactly this.
Progress Quest and Parameters are other takes on a similar concept (though Parameters is actually fairly interesting, if you think of it as an abstract puzzle).
The Kill Everyone Project was almost exactly this. Progress Quest and Parameters are other takes on a similar concept (though Parameters is actually fairly interesting, if you think of it as an abstract puzzle).
That’s… sort of horrifying in a hilarious way.
Yeah, it’s like staring into the void.