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Before getting a phone with GPS, I’d be late for everything because I always got hopelessly lost, sometimes more than an hour of just desperately trying to find somewhere that was easy for most people to find.

I’m never trying to find my way without GPS and mass transit apps again if I can help it!

Or maybe the real accomplishment is writing guides, in guiding others to be the hero? It’s dangerous to go alone ;)

Absolutely! If not for these unsung heroes, I wouldn’t complete 99% of games, since I have very little sense of direction and other ADHD-related issues!

Let me answer the headline with a couple other questions: What’s your opinion about consulting a GPS or map when going somewhere you haven’t been before? What’s your opinion on not cooking every meal from scratch?

Some of us have cognitive impairments that lead us to otherwise getting completely lost and abandoning the game altogether. Others just want to get past an annoyance like in your case.

What I’m trying to say is that it’s ok to achieve things with help, especially in a medium that’s supposed to be about enjoyment and an escape from the drudgery of real life.

B being secondary with A as the highest or tertiary with S as the highest?

If the former, I’ll be Doesn’t Overthink Everything Man

If the latter, I’ll go with Correct Orientation of USB drives and Cables on First Try Man

Those are the kind of people who will always find something to ridicule or complain about, though, so you should never let their hypothetical bitching affect your decisions.

You mean you DON’T drive a Car brand car, wear Shoes brand shoes and drink this delicious-looking beverage??

You make some good points, but you’re also overstating the power of captology to the point of sounding paranoid tbh. Pretending that someone who’s aware of it, how it works and its goals is still completely powerless to resist is some misanthropic bullshit that gives some people (aware “consoomers” 🙄) far too little credit and others (the people developing captology and other disgustingly manipulative marketing strategies) far too much.

Is gaslighting and other propaganda, whether by human or technology, much more effective than most people know or are willing to admit? Definitely. Is it the Borg, though? Absolutely not.