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Re:Playpulse ONE – The gaming bike that unlocks your fitness... by jvanderbot on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @07:54PM (#26801216)
If someone can just create a wall-power breaker that turns off when I'm not walking, running, or biking then I'd be fine. I don't need dedicated games that trick me into exercising, I need non-exercise to block my ability to play the games I want.
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Re:Playpulse ONE – The gaming bike that unlocks your fitness... by lowbloodsugar on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @10:53PM (#26802416)
So that was a thing, and it sucked. Negative reinforcement just doesn't work too well on humans. "Keep pedaling or we'll disable the controller" was a thing, and people hated it. "Keep pedaling or we'll disable the controller", is hostility easily met with, "Oh, look, I plugged my controller back into my playstation and threw this shitty device in the trash"
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