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The analogy makes a lot of sense to me. Once you have an "easy button", it's hard to not use it. It's sort of like when you're at work and see the "quick workaround" effectively become the standard process.

I remember burning out on games because the cheats made them really fun in the short term, but afterward playing normally felt like agony.

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[-] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 2 days ago

In the 90s I would go to the school library to print out walkthroughs from the internet, to supplement the occasional relevant walkthroughs I could find in magazines. Realistically there was absolutely no way I was figuring out most of the puzzles on my own as a child, games got way more user friendly and self explanatory since then.

[-] Dave@lemmy.nz 9 points 2 days ago

I had a friend who had a whole scrap book of notes for Myst. I wasn't dedicated enough 😅

[-] LemmyThinkAboutIt@lemmy.zip 2 points 21 hours ago

I tried playing Riven which is the sequel to Myst. Couldn't figure out what I was doing. So I just went back to playing Sim City.

[-] Dave@lemmy.nz 1 points 19 hours ago

I seem to recall enjoying Riven, but I suspect I never actually finished it and just gave up at some point.

Riven came out nearly 30 years ago so I think I can be forgiven for not remembering too well 👴

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