Andy Matuschak@andy_matuschakThis is real. I routinely feel like I’m “playing with the settings on easy” as the author describes.Quote TweetTracy Chou @triketora · Dec 17, 2015lowering the bar http://moishelettvin.com/2015/12/16/lowering-the-bar/…6:27 PM · Dec 17, 2015·Tweetbot for Mac5 Retweets30 Likes
Jordan Rose@UINT_MIN·Dec 17, 2015Replying to @andy_matuschak.@andy_matuschak See also @scalzi's "The Lowest Difficulty Setting There Is", from a few years ago. http://whatever.scalzi.com/2012/05/15/straight-white-male-the-lowest-difficulty-setting-there-is/…14
Julian Missig@jmissig·Dec 17, 2015Replying to @andy_matuschak@andy_matuschak beat the game once, then you can play through on higher difficulty11
Andy Matuschak@andy_matuschak·Dec 17, 2015@jmissig That’s basically what I’m doing, but the issue is that I get to keep the loot+stats from the first go-round…1
Heath Borders@heathborders·Dec 17, 2015Replying to @andy_matuschak@andy_matuschak I have mixed feelings about his specific case. I agree that I'm playing on easy mode.1
Heath Borders@heathborders·Dec 17, 2015@andy_matuschak but I also have two degrees relevant to the field with good GPAs and honors accolades and great testing scores.1