Post #3398214

2026-05-23 15:59 UTC

Hey bud, I play the games I feel like playing the way I feel like playing them at that time. I’m talking about optimizing for fun instead of letting a game hand me a list of chores to do on my weekend. That’s a personal preference and all I did was express mine. The specific games in question aren’t really relevant are they? I’ve played thousands of video games over the last 30ish years, but I’m not a completionist. I just try to have fun. Also, me expressing my personal philosophy = “holier than fucking thou”? Man, grow up.

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@mohab@piefed.social 2026-05-23 16:21

Who cares about achievements? Play the game and have fun. To put it another way: if it’s no fun without achievements, have you considered that could just be a bad game? Also, me expressing my personal philosophy = “holier than fucking thou”? Man, grow up. Right, needlessly dismissive and patronizing = personal philosophy. Very grown up of you, mighty adult. I’m talking about optimizing for fun instead of letting a game hand me a list of chores to do on my weekend. The specific games in question aren’t really relevant are they? They absolutely are fucking relevant and you’re ignorant for not knowing they are, and arrogant for thinking you’re qualified to question why OP needs achievements. If you think of achievements as a “list of chores” then you simply do not play enough genres to have encountered achievements that meaningfully interact with gameplay in any sense, which’s fine if you’re minding your own business, but you’re not. Action games exist, shmups exist, fighting games exist: games that cleverly use achievements to push you to up your skill level, add replayability value, or discover hidden mechanics. If you think everyone who picks up a controller is looking for a sandbox to fuck around in, you’re so disconnected from this medium, I don’t even know why you decided to comment on this thread.

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