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Xun started vaping last year, she said, as a way to begin the process of quitting cigarettes. She also has a "bunch of friends who vape," many of whom "are very attached to their vapes." But she's not naive about vaping's well-documented risks, and began to wonder if "gamifying" her nicotine use might help her disincentivize it. In the first iteration of the project, hitting the vape would actually murder the digital pet, and thus would ideally work to guilt-trip the user into not inhaling.

"There's a big trend of parental locking yourself," Camacho added. "I'm locked out of certain apps behind a password that Rebecca knows, so I don't scroll Instagram too much. It would be cool if you could have that for nicotine."

But then, explained Xun, Camacho "found this Stupid Hackathon. And we were like, it'd be kind of funnier to be evil."

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[–] whydudothatdrcrane@lemmy.ml 105 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

"We did not feel rewarded at the end of the Hackathon," said Xun. "Because we tested it so much, we were both so diseased from vaping."

[–] tiramichu@lemm.ee 46 points 2 weeks ago

You have to suffer for your art, I suppose

[–] Bot@sub.community 35 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

LMAO, how could someone invent a schema to encourage you harm yourself more :)

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 16 points 2 weeks ago

The marlboro man is being awfully quiet. I mean, he died of lung cancer, but he's still oddly silent......not even a spirit in the clouds sorta thing.

[–] P00ptart@lemmy.world 15 points 2 weeks ago

American food companies: rubbing hands together

[–] straightjorkin@lemmy.world 19 points 2 weeks ago

Gamifying lung cancer for the bit

So they speedran 'you have become the very thing you swore to destroy'?

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 0 points 2 weeks ago

This species serves no purpose in the Great Tapestry

[–] WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today -1 points 2 weeks ago

After the Gaza bit, and now this...I'm fully onboard with AI exterminating us. How may I help ourAI Overlords?