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Cake day: July 11th, 2023

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  • Novel idea: make it so if the user doesnt touch the screen or progress (scroll or something) like within every 30 s, the screen dims and threatens to sleep

    Natural, predictable avoidable impediment-consequences > blocking/timers/whatever gimmick.

    Learned this from one of my favprite apps of all time that progrsmmed their app such that sometimes it keeps playing even if it goes to sleep from inaction but equally often stops and cuts off play back so yourevincentivized to keep engaging with it in a periodic superstitous way

    Very lootbox-esque in some sense. It keeps me the fuck guessing but engaged as fuck