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gailcalled's avatar

You can’t unlock an achievement; (mixed metaphor). I suppose you can achieve an achievement, or perhaps learn how to do something successfully

EmpressPixie's avatar

@gailcalled: On the xBox, as you play games, you do, in fact “unlock achievements”. That’s just the terminology used. Probably because most often you unlock a new feature of the game when you achieve the point they’ve chosen for an achievement. Regardless, it is called unlocking in gamer-speak.

Well structured achievements are created such that they encourage you to play the game very fully, challenge yourself in some way, or teach you to play the game.

kevbo's avatar

@gailcalled, you are rockin’ it old school. ;-)

gailcalled's avatar

@guys: More bastardization of my beloved language, boo hoo. I wouldn’t recognize xBoxes if they rained down from heaven.

kevbo's avatar

Isn’t an “x” what you mark the box with? Is there a CheckBox, too?

EmpressPixie's avatar

Oh! Also some of the achievements are hidden and you have to unlock them by achieving other achievements.

To answer the question: You could try to draw an analogy between lurve and gamer points, but I think the premise is flawed. There is an end goal to a game. I do not see an end goal to Fluther. At least, not in the same way.

miasmom's avatar

You could unlock being part of the 10k club, I guess…

kevbo's avatar

You could get Sueanne to show you her tits.

Harp's avatar

The ultimate achievement would be to get added to @gailcalled ‘s fluther. No one has yet unlocked that. I can only speculate what powers that might confer. I suspect the hack might involve chocolate

gailcalled's avatar

@Harp: I’m too busy now trying to clean horseradish. I’ll get back to you

kevbo's avatar

@Halliburton_Shill, excellent cartoon, by the way (just watched it—it wouldn’t work on my iPhone).

edit:: although now that I think about it, not much changes in a few hundred years… “A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.” Napolean Bonaparte

Halliburton_Shill's avatar

@kevbo – ty, the real question is will they stop fighting for a new ribbon.

eponymoushipster's avatar

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