It's the idea that in order to goad players into paying, the game simply throws up artificial wait timers in their way, be it waiting for crops to grow, castles to build, fuel tanks to refill and so on.
Although designers don't always like to talk about it, the practice of building in artificial waits isn't uncommon.
Instead, the site's artificial wait times are an example of what Eytan Adar, a professor of information and computer science at the University of Michigan, calls "benevolent deception".
Ida won best film in the official competition at last October's London film festival, and Curzon Artificial Eye waited nearly a year to release it.
She finds the tension between herself and Wyndham dismayingly adolescent — "I was shut up once more in an artificial world of waiting" — whereas he and we are rediscovering the terrific sexual power of brains.
Four hours of forced standing was evaluated because it mimicked conditions that can occur on dairies, particularly when waiting for artificial insemination or veterinary treatment.
I was drinking brandy-and-water, picking through a bowl of artificial snack food and waiting for something to happen, when I ran into the other man I wanted to tell you about.
For decades Arabs have ridiculed their kingdom as an artificial construct of British imperialism waiting to fall apart.
Word that Mr. Christerson was waiting for an artificial heart got out after members of his church prayed for his recovery on Sunday.
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