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		angrycoder on July 9, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: To-do app + RPG = EpicWin Do we really need more ways to assign meaningless points to actions?

hugh3 on July 9, 2010 | [–]

I voted you up, purely for the irony.

devin on July 9, 2010 | [–]

It's applied game theory. If they did this right I bet you'll be surprised at how effective it is.

Not to mention people will just spend more time looking at, and building their todo list in order to play the game in the first place.

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