Send us a text What happens when your morning routine is harder than a raid boss and your alarm is literally a mini-game? We pull back the curtain on how we protect time for play, work, and creation—sometimes by snoozing five times, sometimes by grabbing coffee at 4 a.m. You’ll hear how we gamify wake-ups, why stable tech beats flashy plugins, and what it takes to keep streaming when the mental health bar is already low. Momentum becomes the throughline. A surprise surge past a thousand live...
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Send us a text What happens when your morning routine is harder than a raid boss and your alarm is literally a mini-game? We pull back the curtain on how we protect time for play, work, and creation—sometimes by snoozing five times, sometimes by grabbing coffee at 4 a.m. You’ll hear how we gamify wake-ups, why stable tech beats flashy plugins, and what it takes to keep streaming when the mental health bar is already low. Momentum becomes the throughline. A surprise surge past a thousand live...
Triscuits and Destiny: Sampling Everything Games Can Be
The Gaming Persona
43 minutes
2 months ago
Triscuits and Destiny: Sampling Everything Games Can Be
Send us a text Dr. Gamology, Doritos, and Marcus explore the psychological motivations behind gaming and how our digital personas reflect our real-world needs and desires. • Why we play games: socialization, escapism, stress relief, and validation • The concept of psychological flow and how it explains gaming enjoyment • How content vaulting and free-to-play models frustrate longtime players • Gaming as parents and finding ways to share the experience with children • Changes in content creat...
The Gaming Persona
Send us a text What happens when your morning routine is harder than a raid boss and your alarm is literally a mini-game? We pull back the curtain on how we protect time for play, work, and creation—sometimes by snoozing five times, sometimes by grabbing coffee at 4 a.m. You’ll hear how we gamify wake-ups, why stable tech beats flashy plugins, and what it takes to keep streaming when the mental health bar is already low. Momentum becomes the throughline. A surprise surge past a thousand live...
