LogFAQs > #932223353

NBIceman posted...

Well, the verbiage I personally used was "gatekeeping," which I stand by and regard as pretty reasonable considering the tweet that prompted this topic was an unprovoked and unnecessarily aggressive argument as part of a discussion that literally no one was having.

I don't see how "let people play (and finish) single-player video games the way they want to" is seeking validation. Do you, on the other hand, not see how an opinion like that presented in Matei's tweet comes off as a hilarious attempt to claim some kind of feeling of superiority? "Maybe we both finished the game, but I did it the REAL way, so I'm better than you." That may not have been the intent, but it's how it reads. And people pointing out why that's a ridiculous sentiment aren't automatically "triggered" by it.

His is an opinion like many others. But then people respond with something like "I'll play the game damn game however I want!", so uhh well ok? He wasn't telling you how to play the game. Insisting that you beat the game even with save states is legit does come off as seeking validation, otherwise why not accept you really didn't? Not that you would care anyway. There doesn't seem to be any way of saying you don't really beat the game if you cheat without coming off as condescending apparently, but accepting a game's terms and still getting to finish it it's something that's ingrained with part of the gaming culture, so it is what it is.

I guess a middle ground of sorts would be saying that you beat the Switch version, specifically, of X game, and with save states. Lots of specifications to be made for what it's worth, but otherwise it's left too ambiguous. I think that's already been said ITT, but whatever.

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