Nicole He has built a voice-controlled game called Enhance in which you speak commands to zoom & enhance images to look for secret codes, just like a detective on a CSI TV show. I bet if you try this in your open plan office, your coworkers will look at you like you’re nuts for a sec but will soon gather around, shouting their own commands at the computer. After all, everyone wants to enhance:
Tag: this sounds very cool
uhHHHH I don’t mean to be dramatic or anything but I literally wrote 50k words in two weeks without fuckening trying, like won NaNoWriMo in 2 weeks, TWO WEEKS, after joining 4thewords.com and I’m like
w h a t
- OK so it’s pretty much like Neopets + Gaia Online + RPG, But You Level Up Through Writing
- You “battle” cute online critters with your word count
- You can dress up your avatar and whatnot and there are different regions and crafting quests
- and my weird brain apparently responds VERY WELL to nerd gamification
- because Holy Shit I wrote 50,600 words in 2 fuckening weeks
- and am now 4thewords’ new hype squad
- (also if you join, use the referral code PEUOC65061 so if you get a full membership, which I totally am, we will both be rewarded)
basically, wow I have never been this productive in my LIFE and I can’t wait for their July mini nanowrimo event (they’re doing a pride month one right now so you can get a rainbow shirt and fight rainbow beasties it’s freakin adorable)
and if this sounds like something you would enjoy, go for it, try to catch me, just do it, come at me friends let’s write some good shit together
i respond very very badly to the additional pressure of gamification, but i know a lot of people like it, so this looks cool for them!
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