Grumpy old geeks, a weekly talk show hosted by Brian Schulmeister and Jason

DeFilippo discussing the finer points of what went wrong on the internet and who's to blame.

Welcome to Grumpy old geeks. I'm Jason DeFilippo and I'm Brian Schulmeister. Brian, I hate you.

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Last week, you gave me the trick of using yoga on my Apple Watch to basically game the activity stats.

Now, technically, I suppose I did give you the trick, but my point was that this is the problem

with gamifying stuff and now you have exemplified that for me. Yeah, now that I know it's there,

it holds no special place for me. I'm aware of this because Jason, as someone who I've never known

to do any yoga, did a lot of yoga workouts last week because I wanted my October badge for doubling

my move goal. So guess what? I got my October badge. You know what, though, Jason, the only person

you really cheated is you. Oh, bullshit. I got my badge. Which means nothing. Absolutely nothing.

Yes, and you did not get the workouts. Now, I guarantee to you, if there weren't badges and if

there weren't little closing circles in the endorphin rush that you get from closing your circle,

you wouldn't have cheated and done the yoga thing. You just would have gone about your day and went,

oh, you know, I need to do a little bit more tomorrow. Yeah, I think I'm just going to turn it off.

I know they say what gets measured gets managed, but since I've like seriously slowed down on the

drink and I'm down like six pounds, so I don't even need to care about that stuff. It's great.

Okay. Let's see. Basically, the only reason I have an Apple watch. So I'm keeping it going.

Oh, I keep it for many other reasons, but the health stuff, it just doesn't really matter now.

Now that I know you can see, it's like as soon as I found out my friends could get, you know,

words with friends cheats. It's like, okay, the game means nothing to me now. Right.

No, there has to be standards and practices. They don't see me doing a downward facing dog on my

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