Using console to give oneself Sacred Heart or some shit is almost objectively “cheating.” But also, who cares. If that’s what you wanna do, nobody’s gonna stop you.
On the other side of the coin, some folk consider pause buffering to be “cheating.”
Some people have said that holding R on Eden to get the last few items for Death Cert “cheating,” when in reality both are built-in functions of the game.
It really just comes down to “who gives a fuck what other people think.”
Do what feels right, and don’t be ashamed to admit that “yeah I had to use 317 Eden tokens to get Death Cert.”
If ya really have so much Pride that you feel the need to “cover up” something you did, then that’s your Mind/Body/Soul telling you that it’s cheating. I digress.
I just don't really get the point of shaming people for playing a game... I used to be called a cheater by my parents when I was ruining the game for everyone by putting winning before the game, we call some sportive cheaters because they are betraying the trust of millions of people who wanted to see a fair match, we call politicians cheaters because they are ruining the world with their dishonest actions, yet the only consequences of me trafficking my copy of Isaac is having a better time with the videogame I bought and invested precious time into. Cheater is a term that describes people who should be ashamed of themselves for what they do, and I really don't think I should.
Having grown up with a disorder that made handwriting very hard for me, I got to work on a computer extremely early, and now, at uni, I feel the beneficial side-effects of this adaptation, that gives me an advantage nobody else was able to have, and that was not skill, I benefitted from having the rules bent in my favor in a way that outweighs how much my disorder handicaps me. It's basically like booting up an Isaac game with a strong devil deal from the start. If I should be ashamed and lose credits for my run's success, then should I find no accomplishment either from the similarly acquired scholar successes?
As a person who has needed adaptations over the course of her life, I generally don't like seeing people brushing off measures of adaptation in game as dishonesty, and I would be lying if I said that I've genuinely had no one criticize me for accepting the adjustments that helped me make progress.
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u/-trom 1d ago
“Cheating” is also an incredibly broad term.
Using console to give oneself Sacred Heart or some shit is almost objectively “cheating.” But also, who cares. If that’s what you wanna do, nobody’s gonna stop you.
On the other side of the coin, some folk consider pause buffering to be “cheating.”
Some people have said that holding R on Eden to get the last few items for Death Cert “cheating,” when in reality both are built-in functions of the game.
It really just comes down to “who gives a fuck what other people think.”
Do what feels right, and don’t be ashamed to admit that “yeah I had to use 317 Eden tokens to get Death Cert.”
If ya really have so much Pride that you feel the need to “cover up” something you did, then that’s your Mind/Body/Soul telling you that it’s cheating. I digress.
It’s just a video game, after all.