Lately, I’ve been farming testnet points, and it’s making me a little uneasy… I originally did it just to practice and get a feel for it, but the moment I started thinking, “How much should I be able to get,” my mindset completely shifted. Plainly put, my stop-loss right now is based on time and effort: if the tasks run like I’m going to the office for several days in a row, and I have to keep watching the group messages to *fight for* interactions, then I stop. Add an “information stop-loss” too—once the project team starts drawing wild promises, and the points rules get changed here and there every few days, I’ll take a step back and go drink tea.

That whole play-to-earn script—inflation plus studios coming in and ruining the economy—I feel like there’s a trace of it in a lot of point-based mechanics as well. The more aligned the expectations are, the more easily it turns into a spiral grind. My roommate even complained that I get up in the middle of the night to place trades: “Is this clocking in, or just trading crypto?”… I don’t really know either. Either way, I’ll treat it as practice for now, not a paycheck.