Correct. Giving meaningful choices is hard.

Choice can’t exist without information. If you know nothing, you can’t chose. If two doors are perfectly the same, it’s not a choice. If you have no information on either path in the forest, you’re not really choosing.

Wait, my memory says you flap your hair with your hands. Is it really ear stroking?

That is SUCH an amazing way to put it. No grinding, no waiting for timers to run out, no traveling back and forth to savepoint, no insanely hard challenges or unlocks. Just experiencing it, and (for the most part) even failing forward.

The Robots of Dawn, I think. Nightfall also plays with the concept.

Asimov was a man though

It’ll trickle down aaaaaany day now.

I’ve heard of “Short-term utilitarianism”, but I like yours better.

Try something simple in Windows like setting custom keyboard shortcuts… insanely frustrating.

You can set macro’s under Mouse and Keyboard center (though only in win11, welcome to 1995 Microsoft!) You can set a keyboard shortcut for a program under a shortcut’s properties (since at least a couple of editions ago).

As long as I get to cram all those accounts into a single portal or app, that’s fine by me. I dislike having to look at multiple places to get slightly different variants of the same content.