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One thing I do with games is automate the grind. To me, that is part of the fun. I have built lego robots to press a sequence of buttons repeatedly, or programmed microcontrollers using circuitpython to press a series of keys or click the mouse at given intervals to grind various in-game currency and such. It's so common for me to do these kinds of things that I now instinctively look for places in gameplay that I can automate. I haven't done anything as complicated as using computer vision to look at the screen and respond to it, but I did see that Anthony Sottile did this to catch shiny pokemon https://youtu.be/-0GIY5Ixgkk and doing something like this has been out there on my horizon.


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