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Interesting. Especially the part about humans and social situations...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learned_helplessness
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Mike Raiford wrote:
> Interesting. Especially the part about humans and social situations...
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learned_helplessness
I'm no good at reading technical encyclopedic articles.
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And lo on Thu, 31 Jul 2008 12:24:25 +0100, Mike Raiford
<mra### [at] hotmailcom> did spake, saying:
> Interesting. Especially the part about humans and social situations...
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learned_helplessness
These guys should frequent game forums -
"What do you mean the boss killed you, just firebomb him"
"What, but every other creature in this level was fire-resistant!"
"Yeah but the boss isn't"
"HTH am I supposed to know that?"
or talk to some married couples -
"I sent him out to buy some tomatoes and he came back with a bottle of
ketchup"
As a result the husband is no longer sent out to perform a task he doesn't
want to do.
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Phil Cook
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I once tried to be apathetic, but I just couldn't be bothered
http://flipc.blogspot.com
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Phil Cook wrote:
> "Yeah but the boss isn't"
> "HTH am I supposed to know that?"
That was the one thing that bugged me about HL. There were boss
creatures that were only vulnerable to injury at particular places in
the script, and it certainly wasn't obvious in anything they did.
The same was true in Undying, but it became really obvious when it was
that you could finish off the boss instead of just dodging.
> or talk to some married couples -
Or Dilbert, where the secretary does everything for the boss, until one
day she gets to send him off to Kosovo or some such, hoping the PHB has
learned not even to try to make a phone call. :-)
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Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
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And lo on Thu, 31 Jul 2008 17:15:12 +0100, Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom>
did spake, saying:
> Phil Cook wrote:
>> "Yeah but the boss isn't"
>> "HTH am I supposed to know that?"
>
> That was the one thing that bugged me about HL. There were boss
> creatures that were only vulnerable to injury at particular places in
> the script, and it certainly wasn't obvious in anything they did.
> The same was true in Undying, but it became really obvious when it was
> that you could finish off the boss instead of just dodging.
It's less learned helplessness more least energy which seems to be a
fundamental of the universe
>> or talk to some married couples -
>
> Or Dilbert, where the secretary does everything for the boss, until one
> day she gets to send him off to Kosovo or some such, hoping the PHB has
> learned not even to try to make a phone call. :-)
Wearing the internationaly accepted symbol of peace - concentric circles
:-)
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Phil Cook
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I once tried to be apathetic, but I just couldn't be bothered
http://flipc.blogspot.com
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