Buy a PC Gamer-approved product every day this week and you get reward points. You’ve levelled up, now you’re a PCG Ambassador, so you get a PCG fan kit. Meanwhile, your health insurance is incentivising you to walk as it’s worried about your heart rate, and a tobacco firm is incentivising you not to read The Guardian because of its coverage of cancer risk. You get an achievement from the local council for not giving money to a tramp, and your eyetracking device is giving you bonus points for reading every line of an advert (but not the small print). It’s a nightmare and [more...]]]> http://funambulism.com/2010/06/the-money-farm/feed/ 0 http://funambulism.com/2008/03/achievements-quandary/ http://funambulism.com/2008/03/achievements-quandary/#comments Thu, 13 Mar 2008 14:11:00 +0000 Grill http://www.funambulism.com/?p=959 Xbox 360 achievements let you get points that total up to mean exactly nothing. Hence, I feel no obligation to play games for achievements and even feel a little disgusted with myself for playing games with achievements. Hence, I don’t want to play Xbox 360 games.

However… I also get a feeling whenever I’m playing a game that doesn’t have achievement points (PC or even Wii) that I’m wasting my time because I could be getting points. No matter that I don’t want to, no matter that I think they’re a worthlessI grinding measurement towards inevitable death, I still get [more...]]]> http://funambulism.com/2008/03/achievements-quandary/feed/ 0