Sentences with phrase «carrot on a stick»

Although I will say, comparing carrots on a stick to ice cream is beyond me.
Besides from the dialogue the characters themselves is also a nice carrot on a stick as far as keeping you involved and entertained.
As if the explosions weren't enough carrot on a stick to make you do things, they add leaderboards!
The disc - based version will include all of the Xbox 360's updates, including update # 14, which covers carrots on sticks for riding pigs, pumpkin pie, fixes etc..
When «people feel that material rewards are being dangled before them like carrots on a stick, they come to feel externally controlled — a primary damper of intrinsic motivation,» the authors write in the HBR Blog Network post.
It uses government funding as the proverbial carrot on a stick to get companies to work together with universities and nonprofits on helping 3D printing technology for manufacturing cross the so - called «valley of death» — the period of development between a lab's proof - of - concept and commercial product when private funding is often lacking.
All about disapproval, and ever an elusive carrot on stick held out there they you've got to reach for (approval, acceptance of worthiness) but can never be allowed to quite reach.
Carrot cake is not something I grew up with so when I first heard the terms «carrot» and «cake» together it seemed more like a juxtaposition than a delicious combo and it sort of reminded of this photo I'd seen in a 1940s album depicting children having carrots on a stick in lieu of ice - cream due to rationing during WWII.
Whether it's a slow cool down after sprints or enjoying a superfood smoothie, dangle a metaphorical carrot on a stick when the pain starts to strike (isn't victory sweet?).
If a fresh new Animal Crossing experience won't be coming to the Nintendo Switch for a while after a release, an Animal Crossing GameCube on the Virtual Console early on could be a decent carrot on a stick.
You'll likely already reach the level cap of 20 by this stage, but the ability to keep increasing your Power Level (a rating that represents how tough you are based on the strength of your guns and armour) is the delicious carrot on a stick that keeps you slavering for more.
It will forever be held up to our noses as a cruel carrot on a stick to get us to buy shitty Rabbid games forever, because «if this game fails we'll cancel BGAE2», over and over, forever.
Mohammed has message that goes more like this: man was not sinful, just follow all the rules, and maybe you will get into paradise with 70 perpetual virgins (works - rightouesness, carrot on the stick for those who sacrifice themselves to karma now, praying, fasting, etc. all according to dictate.)
A dynamic, co-op PVE match with the proverbial carrot on a stick being leveling to attain new gear.
If someone acts as if they have the final say about you «getting to heaven,» remember first that «getting to heaven» isn't even the point of Christian faith, and second, that anybody using a carrot on a stick to manipulate your behaviors doesn't follow the God who gives grace with crazy generosity.
And it's probably for the same reason, which also brings us back to the «carrot on stick» story, that carrot cake's popularity was revived in Great Britain during WWII.
It's a long season and the FA cup was the carrot on the stick at the close.
A boy dangles a carrot on a stick just out of reach of his donkey.
If there's one complaint, it's that Abrams packs too many characters into the story, resulting in several unanswered questions that are dangled in front of the audience like a carrot on a stick.
Better played as a handheld experience, it may keep you entertained for some time, as long as you keep caring for the carrot on a stick.
Gone are the days of the carrot on a stick approach to school funding — a system which once made a habit of choosing favorites by rewarding states for adopting and maintaining particular sets of standards — such as Common Core.
Like VW's previous Type 2 - style revivals, the 2001 Microbus Concept and 2012's «Bulli» concept, the I.D. Buzz is little more than a carrot on a stick, with no evidence of plans for production at least in the short term - but it does serve to illustrate the company's renewed focus on electric vehicles in the coming years.
Often it's because we get lulled into a false sense of confidence with just a glimmer of hope — and many times it's the perks and promises, offered like a carrot on a stick, that sway us from being rational to acting irrationally.
In many cases game creators may not even realize their mechanics are working to cement this mentality, but when games use a woman's affection, her body, or her sexuality as a carrot on a stick, they're actively encouraging men to think of women as objects, prizes, and status symbols.
I agree with your carrot on a stick analogy.
It was used as the carrot on a stick to prove the value of PS Plus down the road.
Nobody wants to make Monster Hunter easy to master, but the small successes along the way are just the carrots on sticks I needed to continue studying for hundreds of hours.
Dark Souls» carrot on a stick, the Crystal Lizard is a concise example of habit conditioning to screw with player expectations.
If you are getting tired of the story just use these two modes as a carrot on a stick for why you should finish the campaign, trust me, it will be worth it.
Without the delicious new coat of paint this game has received for the new console, the game also includes all the released DLC for the game which is mainly why Square Enix labelled it as the Definite Edition so for those you that haven't played through the DLC yet there's another carrot on a stick for you to go out and get this game right now.
To encourage more active play, Bloodborne's carrot on the stick is the chance to earn back lost health.
No matter what you SAY is coming down the pipe, you have proven time and time again that its just a carrot on a stick.
The game could have benefited by having a more worthwhile use for your cash at the end of each round; some carrot on a stick to justify sticking around for 50 challenges of similar mission structure.
In the early game, this leaves you with your fists and a torch for fighting, which is effective enough on its own, but not being able to equip a new weapon every floor or two definitely hinders the «carrot on a stick» approach that many of these games so heavily rely on.
If you really like programming from the networks and not necessarily the original content that's come out, Hulu has a carrot on a stick.
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