lmao fuck off with the gatekeepy bullshit that truly liking games means playing them on a certain difficulty setting
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I loved overcoming the challenge of games like Dark Souls and Ninja Gaiden (2004). They wouldn’t have been the unforgettable experiences they were for me if they hadn’t been hard in the specific ways they were hard. Once someone argued w/me that this was super “problematic.” lol.
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entering a 16-input code you read about in a magazine to make a game super easy: true gamer shit, playing the meta-game of being a hardcore gamer as part of your identity going into the options mode and setting the difficulty to easy: lmao no true gamer would ever
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Yes! I knew a guy who once showed me how he'd hacked The Bard's Tale (which was really difficult and quite a slog in the early going) to make all his characters extremely OP so they could easily slaughter everything in their path!https://twitter.com/theangelremiel/status/1415428429688840194?s=20 …
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That for sure happens. I think a lot of those people never developed a feeling of pursuit or accomplishment outside of games, so it's their only line to that hit of dopamine. Asking to circumvent it is "undoing" the only life accomplishments they take pride in.
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Unfortunately I don't think shaming the behavior remedies the underlying causes... not that they even could be addressed on the internet? It's just sad all around

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