Discussion What if life was a glitched video game that no one can rage quit?

[L'absent]

There are times when life feels like a poorly programmed game. Glitches everywhere, absurd difficulty spikes, infinite loops of suffering with no way to skip. And the worst part? There's not even a clear exit.

Imagine a video game that forces you to play even when you don't want to. You can't uninstall it, you can't pause, and when you try to shut down the app, the system crashes with an error message like "Fatal error: self-destruction system blocked by fear." Meanwhile, the game keeps running—same repetitive missions, NPCs talking nonsense, difficulty stuck on hard mode with no final reward.

So the real question is: who the hell wrote this code? Who decided we have to stay trapped here, grinding through this ridiculous gameplay with no quick way out? Why is it that even those who try to escape often end up in even worse bugs, glitched between hospitals, therapists, and relatives pretending to understand?

Maybe we're all stuck in a piece of shitty software that refuses to shut itself down. Or maybe we're just too cowardly to press ALT+F4 for real.

 

[Namelesa]

This is the worst video game ever and I like absurdly difficult games so that's saying a lot. The problem with this game is that anything you do as so much more consequences than anything else I have seen and the obviously stupidly hard way to even quit playing it.

So the real question is: who the hell wrote this code?

Jason (Me and my sister have this joke that any bad game design in any video game is always caused by someone called Jason so its him)

 

[LaVieEnRose]

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[L'absent]

This is the worst video game ever and I like absurdly difficult games so that's saying a lot. The problem with this game is that anything you do as so much more consequences than anything else I have seen and the obviously stupidly hard way to even quit playing it.


Jason (Me and my sister have this joke that any bad game design in any video game is always caused by someone called Jason so its him)

Honestly, Jason is a terrible game designer. He built an endless grinding system, NPCs with repetitive dialogue, bugs everywhere, and absolutely no quick way to uninstall the game. We should start a petition for a patch that at least adds a proper rage quit option. Maybe even throw in a cinematic final cutscene, just to make all this nonsense feel like it had some meaning.

 

[human909]

It's kinda is like a game where you can't exit isn't it? I don't think these people don't understand all the pain we went through. The problem is whenever we try to explain something to say what is going on, they don't listen. No one does. I wanna leave, let us leave. They just want to keep us trapped here and just say, there is better option then death. Which sucks cause i just want to leave and i got no reason to be alive anymore, none.

 

[L'absent]

[Connection was interrupted]

Error 404: Exit not found. Attempting to reconnect... Oh, wait, I forgot this game doesn't even have a pause button.

 

[whitetaildeer]

jason is a mediocre game dev. oh, i also have this green shiny plumbob floating directly above my head. anyone know what that's about?

 

[soonnotkoei]

This is the worst video game ever and I like absurdly difficult games so that's saying a lot. The problem with this game is that anything you do as so much more consequences than anything else I have seen and the obviously stupidly hard way to even quit playing it.


Jason (Me and my sister have this joke that any bad game design in any video game is always caused by someone called Jason so its him)

i mean, atleast the graphics are good i guess. but everything else is ehh. plus Jason decided to not have skill based matchmaking.

 

[JJJ]

this post brings to mind the french play no exit/huis clos. True horror of an idea. but it also feels very real and i relate to it and feel this way in my own life sometimes.

Where is the damn off switch?

 

[oneeyed]

B A START

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Nope, doesn't work. Fuck me.