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"

  • mittens [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    But there is an actual point to be made about a certain cult-like attitude that every piece of media ought to somehow “improve” you as a person

    Ohhhh yeah I see where this is coming from, and yeah it's absolutely true. I never considered that the "you cheated yourself" nerd was coming from this sigma grindset mentality where your free time must be devoted to acquiring marketable skills or at least pretending that your skills you're supposedly building are marketable. In the case of Musk, I'd argue that it's actually some cheeky post-rationalization, like when CEOs write down obvious leisure time like golfing or eating expensive meals as work, but when that idea comes from the other end and reaches the prole, it transforms into free time being an opportunity for more grinding, and gaming may be a part of that. Yeah, I absolutely agree.