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read cheat codes on wiki of the game, give yourself 1000000 gold. Win.
play it in a hardcore competitive setting with multiplayer.
- while the other players start attacking you verbally in chat.
Turn on voice chat.
Get extremely mad every time you hear a pronoun.
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One of my favourite things about No Man’s Sky is how it’s almost scientifically designed to alienate (no pun intended) chuds. Everyone is a they/them. The spacesuits are big bulky not-remotely-form-fitting things. No human faces are ever visible. You have vast free appearance-customization options from the instant a new game starts. And one of the cheapest upgrades for both your spacesuit’s jetpack and your starship is a sparkling rainbow engine trail. It’s the most platonically-queer game ever.
Also, the colours on so many worlds are very evocative of colourful pride flags. This ain’t your grey on grey-on-grey military shooter. The game has the visual aesthetic of classic sci-fi novel covers with a million colours. I really did find a world where the planet’s grasslands are basically a vast bisexual-pride flag!
Also, the game is explicitly anti-patriarchy. It’s right there in the title!
Edit: Also, giant hermit crabs that live in massive astronaut helmets
Subscribe to the subreddit for the game, read the top threads daily and ask genuine questions on how to improve
most of the suggestions are for multiplayer so for single player check every nook and cranny before proceeding down the main path. it sucks the air right out of most games. for bonus point check every wall they might have a breakable barrier like that one time where it gave you 3 coins.
I do this with so many games and end up getting burnt out right before finishing them
Happened with TOTK. I got every shrine and every item and was just an hour or two away from finishing it but couldn’t.
it’s called CONTENT nowadays.
Always was, too.
i hate marketing departments that have fetishized these bullshit distractions as selling points. a secret now and then is cool but 50 types of collectibles in every blind spot is just nauseating. “BuT wE GOt 50 HoURs Of eXTrA ConTENt” stfu is your game that weak that you gotta pad it with bs?
The extra content is walking simulator to collect 50 ounces of shibberbely
I especially hate survival, crafting and base building in RPG games, bruh, i wanted plot and adventures, when i want grind i will play mmo.
Never blame yourself for something going wrong, always blame the game. Lag, misinputs, hard ware, etc. For extra saltiness, blame hacking.
Make sure others hear how displeased you are. Use local voice chats to tell your team mates how disappointed you are in them letting you down. Use the team chats to type slurs.
Rage quit the game constantly, threatening to delete it, but never following through. Pick up new games of the same genre and repeat.
Oh wait, I thought you asked how to make others not enjoy a game.
Never blame yourself for something going wrong, always blame the game. Lag, misinputs, hard ware, etc. For extra saltiness, blame hacking.
Every player worse than you is a scrub who needs to git gud while every player better than you is a tryhard who has no life.
DSP tries it
Have an identity and interests outside of the game.
Base all of your self worth on how highly ranked you are and you can enjoy the game to the fullest.
Depression
Playing with shitty people
Getting frustrated that you are playing poorly
Playing poorly
Depressive anhedonia is fucking shit
Doing all the side content until i burn myself out at hour 20 trying to be a completionist. Did this with all the witcher 3 question marks in the first areas and was done with the game before i even got to the next section. I now only do side content if its on my way to the main content unless its a game where only the side content is worth doing eg. Oblivion, Skyrim, Fallout 3… A trend hmm
Going for 5 stars on every race in a racing game. I just have to let myself lose or i get stuck on one annoying race i can’t 5 star which is why I’ve never finished burnout revenge.
Modding. I spend hours modding and tired myself out before actually playing. I’m strictly a mod only when something bothers me person now so bug fixes and small qol improvements nothing else.
Forcing myself to play after I’ve lost interest due to sunk cost. Literally just a waste of time there’s no point pushing through boredom there’s no reward on the other end.
Touching any modern multiplayer game. If its not coop with friends its a time black hole that nothing of value can come from except losing hours of my life. Multiplayer games are intentionally created to be vapid addictive experiences which I’m just not interested in. I yearn for the days of old battlefield when it gave me an experience that made me actually want to play with people.
Not cheating in a singleplayer game when it gets too tough because i must preserve my pride to my audience of zero people and nobody gives a shit if i cheat. Sometimes games are more fun when you don’t have to bash your head against a wall. Halo 2 infinite ammo easy mode in coop to get revenge on those sniper jackals that made me rage on legendary and laso.
Leads onto just play the game on easy. Drop the damn difficulty. If combat sucks in a game why extend it with a harder difficulty? Drop it to easy and just blitz through the story. Its more fun that way.
Sometimes it best not to know anything about a game before playing it. This clashes with the fact games cost money but maybe try it with pirating. Just find a game with cool box art and download it. Knowing too much about a game can ruin it
MMOs
sniper jackals that made me rage on legendary
MMOs
the WoW clones or MTX filled ones are just addictive time sinks dressed up as games otherwise they’re pretty chill actually and you can make some real friends there unlike other sweaty toxic online games. idk i just have a soft spot for MMO and “number go up” games.
Try to get really really good at it
Then when you’re confident you’re pretty good go watch a YouTuber blow your sad ass out of the water
When I was in high school early 2000s I got a video on kazaa of a mario 3 speedrun in about 11 minutes and it was nuts. I tried to imitate the guy’s run on an emulator and the jump he did over the piranha plant one second into the first level was almost impossible, I tried it like a hundred times and I did it successfully once. I gave up on that and moved onto the second level and it was basically the same experience, hitting the first two jumps to be perfect tiny hops so you’ve maxed your speed bar by the end of the pipe at the level start is absurdly hard.
By playing that one Amerikkkan civil war game (War of rights) online. I didn’t buy it of course but the steamfront reviews bragging about racism and slurs were quite something
Holy fuck that game. Devs were warned the title alone would attract the worse types of people while making sure anyone else would lose interest. They came back with “Well it was a war of the rights of slaves, too! 😀”
Either they’re really that naive about racism or they’re racist themselves. I’m guessing they’re just racist because they’re a bunch of honkeys from Europe.
I am guessing they were sneak Nazis to begin with. Voice chat is already bad enough on its own on multiplayer games. They knew this was going to happen.
I got gifted this and invited to play by an internet friend I’d fallen out of contact with and the shame is it is a fun, innovative game. the mechanics are really interesting to incentivize actual team play in the style of battle formations and such, but it’s fucking unbearable how racist everyone who plays as the south is
I’ve found that the best way to not enjoy a video game is to exit the building and be outside
Hop on voice chat in modern war shooters and count the slurs. One time I heard triple digits in under 90 seconds.
