How do I know that he doesn't actually play them? In my English class that he's also in a few weeks ago (as of typing), there was a short assignment where everyone wrote about something they thought they couldn't do, but tried anyway and ended up succeeding and then read it out loud to the whole class. I wrote about how the night before, I was on my last life and on the final screen of Double Dragon NES and felt like I was definitely getting game over, but ended up beating it on that life. When I read it out to the class, he and the teacher were familiar with the game (the teacher said he remembered playing that as a kid because I'm young as fuck
) and the kid ignored me saying I beat it but basically said that it was the game's fault that I was in that situation in the first place because "games used to be much harder to fake longevity" or some stupid shit like that. Someone who thinks difficulty is a flaw isn't a true gamer!Pretty ironic, due to people on this forum in those threads telling me how he actually cares about how the games play and how "retro" gaming for me might be just a phase. Well, guess what? He doesn't talk about video games anymore and instead just obsesses over the new superhero film of the week (and watches lowest-common-denominator Japanese animation like One Piece, but he did that even back then, further proving that he's just a poser). I, on the other hand, eventually got around to actually playing older games. Plus, he thinks difficulty is a flaw, so he obviously doesn't care about how games play.
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