PSA: Break Your New York Times Games Streak Today.

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• NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Even ignoring the workers’ solidarity aspect of it:

  It is actually a really good practice to break those login/usage streaks with ALL services. I read a lot of ebooks and I generally will have a “streak” of even two or three years with amazon kindle since I try to read for at least 20 minutes every night. Over the past year or so I’ve started to migrate out of the amazon ecosystem to better support authors and… I definitely find myself hesitating when picking my next book because I COULD read this non-kindle book or… I could read this other book I have via kindle (the prices ARE good) and make number go up. And Amazon realized that we don’t always have an internet connection so they’ll log that to prevent the old streak breaking that came from not bothering to connect to the hotel wifi.

  And the same happens with games. I dip my toe into ESO once or twice a year and it always amuses me how much of that is geared up to make you log-in every single day for a month.

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  • spankmonkey@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yup, streaks exist to encourage the feeling similar to a sunk cost, just like rewards programs.

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    • Stovetop@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Gotta get that daily login bonus in [insert live service game here].

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• GhiLA@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Vampire Survivors is better.

  I’m gonna go play Vampire Survivors, and make hot chocolate.

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  • cooltrainer_frank@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You know what, so will I!

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  • kyle@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Goddamn I love Vampire Survivors.

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  • taiyang@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Sounds like a lovely Monday.

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• JigglySackles@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  If you want a similar fun word game, I really enjoy Quordle. Its 4 wordle at the same time.

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• Donjuanme@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I haven’t played wordle since they put the “streak tracker” behind a “paywall”, fuck you all that data is shit you’re keeping from me without my consent anyways, now you want me to pay you for the privilege?

  I’m not a huge privacy guy, but when you ask me to pay for the data I provide you, you can get bent.

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  • Psaldorn@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Weird, in UK and I see my streak before the ad plays. No subscription

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• inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Oh sure, done! My streak will remain at 0.

  This is the easist picket line not to cross.

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  • Chronographs@lemmy.zip ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yeah I lost all respect for them after it came out that their article on the October 7th attack was all bullshit

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• DaMamaJama@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I have no problem not playing Wordle or Connections, but I have a 2256 day gold streak going on the Crossword and I just CAN’T let that go.

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• PapaStevesy@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Should have released this article yesterday, I did them at midnight.

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• gregor@gregtech.eu ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  How would breaking a streak help?

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  • Isoprenoid@programming.dev ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The business logs how often you use the game. They use it as a metric of engagement. If everyone breaks their streak, their marketing department has a melt down.

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• taiyang@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Oh. Well uh, Mondays puzzle is so easy I already took care of it on the can earlier but I can consider Tuesday I guess.

  I’ll break the other ones though, Wordle and Connections are unfun anyway.

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• pinkystew@reddthat.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  No

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