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The Five Stages of Restart Grief
Oct 21st 2013, 01:14, by Martin Egan

Any gamer will know the feeling. It's your tenth restart, you're staring at a spinning ball of fire or there's a gun emplacement that you just can't get past, or maybe you're just standing in a seemingly empty room and the door is just beyond the distance you cover with a double jump. That feeling, the boiling, roiling feeling in the back of your brain as you curse and swear at every imaginable game designer and developer, the idiots and dolts who are paid to do the dream job of building games and yet are so incompetent that they build this level that is impenetrable and impossible and now this awesome game that you shelled out all that money for and is now TOTALLY ruined because… pant pant pant... come on game, come on, just let me through this and then we can get playing again. Just a clue! What did I miss? There must be something you want, what is it? That crate back in the other room, is that it?

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