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MoonBear Musings
Personal blog · moonbearmusings.comgamesbusiness
MoonBear Musings is a personal blog at moonbearmusings.com about games and business. Since 2024, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “The Moron Filter Effect”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-01-18, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Posts on game monetization, including a take on how Mihoyo's gacha games make money, and a 'mission statement' essay on the moron filter effect. HN readers cite it as a link only.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- The Moron Filter Effect2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-07-26
What Hacker News says?
Interesting take on Gacha game monetization, but I was more interested in the "mission statement" linked in the header of the blog: https://moonbearmusings.com/the-moron-filter-effect/
Comment linking /the-moron-filter-effect/
on “How Mihoyo's monetization works”Submitted How Mihoyo's monetization works as a story · 103 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Moron Filter Effect as a story · 2 points
HN discussion