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Recently, I’ve been a bit obsessed with earning points on testnets. Clearly, it’s just practice, but as I keep doing it, I start to assume “there will be airdrops in the future.” Once the expectations are out, it’s easy to become reluctant to stop. My stop-loss is pretty simple: set a maximum “investment” for myself—not money, but time and mental effort, like at most two nights a week, no more than an hour each time; then check on-chain data—if TVL is inflated, interactions are all from the same addresses, and tasks are becoming more like check-ins, I just downgrade or even withdraw. Honestly, when I feel the studio vibe getting stronger, I think of the cycle of inflation + studios + coin price spirals in chain games, which ultimately leads to mutual trampling. I’d rather miss out than turn practice into an obligation.