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i believe in this case cheating is being used to mean that they were clever, working around the problem, not doing anything wrong
by gameswithgo 6y ago
i believe in this case cheating is being used to mean that they were clever, working around the problem, not doing anything wrong
- Waterluvian 6y agoYeah. "How do we make the Wii run Game Cube games? We cheat by putting a Game Cube in the Wii!" It's a playful use of the term.
- eyelidlessness 6y agoOr for us old [feeling] folks: it’s “cheating” by getting a world map and playing through the puzzles and minibosses we would still encounter... not getting a Game Genie and sliding under Mother Brain. Edit: Lol I know, downvote away, icgaf I haven’t played a game besides minesweeper in months.
- Waterluvian 6y agoI honestly just don't understand what you're trying to say.
- eyelidlessness 6y agoI honestly was just kind of flow of consciousness riffing so I don’t blame you. Just overextending the metaphor of gaming applied to cheating with applied knowledge versus cheating with deus ex machina