I’m pretty sure that the existence of a time limit in a game gives me the same amount of anxiety no matter how generous that time limit is

it could be a 9 minute time limit for a 10 minute task or a 3 hour time limit for a 10 minute task. it doesn’t matter - I’ll be equally stressed either way

@kasdeya if time is a limited resource, the problem is that there is a limit, not what the limit is 🫠 if you have to "use" time, the mere fact that it's limited makes the use stressful

@kasdeya incremental games kinda feel related, in an opposite way. you start off with limited resources, and no matter how high the limit gets pushed, it still feels limited, because your use of that resource scales *with* the limit

so if you have finite time, who's to say you won't need to use more and more of that time in bigger and bigger chunks until suddenly you run out 🫥