Chris McFeely (@chrismcfeely.bsky.social)

Difficulty Isn’t Everything There’s this sect of gaming culture that clings to the idea that pain is purity, that to suffer is to play authentically, and that anything less than maximum difficulty isn’t good enough. You’ve for sure seen the meme-turned-dogma of “git gud,” flung at players who dare to ask whether Sekiro might be more welcoming with an easy mode, or who admit to dropping a game down a difficulty because they want to focus on the story instead of rehearsing the same boss fifty times. Difficulty has been elevated from a design parameter to a moral test, as if it’s a way to separate the “real” gamers from the pretenders. https://innerspiral.lol/Blog/easy/easy