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[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

Do people do this outside of videogames? For me the main reason was always that, instead of burning finite resources, I could always solve the problem burning infinite resources (retrying with quicksave)

[–] 2ndDegreeOWO@lemmy.world 5 points 1 hour ago

Do people do this outside of videogames?

All the time. Check that bottle of fancy liquor in the cabinet, the one that's being saved for a special occasion ... but ends up never opened, covered in dust, because its owner died before a special enough occasion ever came.

[–] TachyonTele_Esq@piefed.social 6 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I don't think many people drink health potions, no.

[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 hour ago

I meant like, since this is posted in TabletopRPGs