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Take it easy
I’
ve
never been one of those gamers who enjoys a challenge. I get that for a certain section of the gaming audience, it’s all about besting things on their highest difficulty setting. I know there’s this tragic mentality with some people that you’re not a proper gamer unless you can ‘git gud’.
This is, of course, absurd. Completing a difficult game is only an achievement on a personal level. It’s not something that you should ever boast about in polite company. I’ve lost count of the number of games I’ve failed to complete, because I hit a section where I descended into a sort of Groundhog Day hell-loop. Even when I was a kid, there were other things I preferred to be doing over repeating the same section again and again and again.