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The Weird Science of Apps You Can't Stop Using

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@godwinjames2737 2026-04-18

Yu-Kai Chou breaks this all down and more in his Octalysis Framework. It's the gamification Bible basically

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@gdogmalone 2026-04-21

The only thing streaks do to me is remind me I shouldn’t be wasting my life! The count is like a beacon screaming at me, “you’ve sucked at not using this app for X days”. Brilliant annoyed me by giving me a pass to continue my steak when I deliberately missed it. And it did it twice. That’s not continuing a steak, it’s a cheat code to wear a fake badge

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@totobros675 2026-04-17

This was amazing! Great work. I'm curious, have you looked at the octalysis framework by Yu kai chou?

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@Aceyyy_1 2026-05-04

One thing I will never understand is messing up a film or video with color grading - me personally I like the regular footage as it is or even just brighter saturation is fine - but I genuinely hate it when they mute the colors or eveything is less saturated - but why is kid skin tone blending in with the background?

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@alim.ventures 2026-04-22

your sales persuasion is so damn good

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@Bekcreates 2026-04-17

Love you're videos ❤

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@KylaxNT 2026-04-19

About 50% in LOL. Its balancing mechanism to make sure both teams AVERAGE winrate (among 5 players) is 50%, so match by deafult is more balanced.

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@priteshg4719 2026-04-18

1:57 is where the content actually starts

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@Italya3343 2026-04-18

Thank you for the amazing video and all these examples! 😊

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@MrMonkey0016 2026-04-17

The editing of this video was bad the quotes use could’ve stayed in place for a second longer — love the content tho!

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