Thread:Deathstalker666/@comment-1496755-20170225142933/@comment-1496755-20170304154120

Phew, that was some heavy afternoon. We had a mission - to liberate the poor fig tree from the suffocating embrace of a whole bunch of overgrown grapevines (something like a veinhole monster). The solution - cut as many vines as I could reach and then pull them really hard to free the fig tree's branches. And, of course, when you pull something like this, a ton of debris rains on top of your head and tends to get into your hair and clothes. Anyway... mission accomplished, the vines have been defeated and removed. New ones may grow again this summer, but then I'll just fight them again next year ;)

So, who in here likes to play frustrating games? Just kidding... I hope you're not left with the impression that I think any less of you because you do crazy stuff (like going on wild goose chases). If I'm sometimes critical, it's only because I like your streams and care about them. If I didn't care, I'd just be indifferent.

And since I mention indifferent - in my gaming philosophy this is the highest standard of bad games. When a game fails to evoke any kind of emotional response in me - not even mild annoyance or even pity, I consider it to be truly bad. This is what Counter-Strike does. I've seen people play it. Didn't feel a thing. Like reading a receipt from a store.

We definitely have different frustration treshholds, justl ike we have different tastes, and that's perfectly fine. Liek I mentiopne,d I have had games bring me to the point of banging the desk with my fists and yelling like a lunatic (not that I'm particularly proud of these things) with frustration, and yet I somehow found myself able to enjoy them, along with the motivation to continue to the end.

Another thing that I can truly hate - stuff based on luck. Yay, you hit the monster several times and it's close to death... ooops, the monster landed a critical hit and one-shot you. Quickload? Another hateful thing - situations that require absurdly quick reaction times. If you aren't positioned in the right spot and ready to kill that enemy within 5 seconds of his spawning, well, enjoy replaying the mission from the start. You're a failure!

Anyway, your persistance in the face of such despair is quite admirable... no one ever said being a hero was easy :P