Cheating goes way back in video games... but what does it even mean to cheat? And is it BAD? Polygon's Jenna Stoeber falls down the rabbit hole of cheating h...

holy shit that fucking tweet at 15:30, "nothing was risked and nothing was gained", my dude this is a fucking video game, NOTHING IS RISKED BY DEFINITION OF IT BEING A FUCKING GAME

shit like this makes the various "you die in the game you die in real life" movie/anime plots seems not even that out there, gamers would ABSOLUTELY sign up in droves for a game like that just so they can brag about how badass and hardcore they are, "you casual gamers don't even face the risk of actually dying, lol scrub"

  • ssjmarx [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    I think the "nothing was risked and nothing was gained" thing is a meme.

    • Tervell [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      yeah, it's become one, but this is the original tweet that got turned into a copypasta, and seems to have been mostly sincere

      • FourteenEyes [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        It absolutely was, a comment in response to an article about using Cheat Engine to beat Dark Souls