© March 2022, R.B. Ray
I like video games. I also like to watch other people play them, especially those who are better than me (which is almost all of them). Some people think it’s weird. I argue that it is no weirder than watching a bunch of overpaid athletes throw a ball around for hours on end, so take that for what it’s worth.
As of this writing, Elden Ring is the latest video game to take consoles by storm. It is being praised by gamers who relish the challenge of going up against an adversary that pounds them into digital paste time after time just so they can get up and go back in for more. Recently, there have been complainers who demand it be easier; that the game have an Easy Mode; that it should be a cakewalk if the player wants it that way. I disagree with that.
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