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Comcast’s Internet Usage Meter Should Drive The OCD Insane

In August of 2008, cable internet provider Comcast imposed a 250GB limit on bandwidth, scaring many of their internet gaming customers. Now the company is rolling out an internet usage meter, so customers can obsessively track every single megabyte. Great!


October 20, 2008
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Read this Sentence Exactly Nine Times: Gaming and OCD

The Village Voice’s Chris Ward sat down to play Lego Batman for a review this week, and this happened:

I was unable to complete a single level without trying to collect the hundreds of thousands of LEGO coins that appear when you break something. Note: everything is breakable. It’s the jingling noise the coins make. . .the way they zip through the air into Batman’s utility wallet. . .this simple, visceral thrill led to several uncontrollable hours of collecting shiny things. Current in-game progress as a result: 9.6%