Bronson C.

OK so if i'm being honest this is one of the main episodes that made me love this show as much as i do the amount they poke fun at people like me while also pointing out the fact that video games are horribly addictive and mind numbing is amazing and the difference between this and every other episode in TV shows that make fun of video
Games is that this was made by people who have experience making and playing video games and because of this they understand things like how addictive it is and they also are aware that games tend to not reward you for being $#*!ing Jesus at the video game as shown in the ending they just get disappointed when they get nothing and realize they wasted so much time this moment was honestly the best part of the entire episode because i think they fully conveyed the felling of disappointment you get when you go to hell in back and the game does not give a single $#*! about what you just went through and while yes games warn you SOMETIMES about how godawful what you are about to do is but even then the warning its still not enough to actually convey how bad that experience is gonna be now im gonna give a really good example of a good warning in metal gear rising Re vengeance the game literally makes you put in a cheat code just to play the hardest mode and to scale how bad this mode is i can beat hotline Miami 2 in about 2-2.5 hours and it took me 3 hours just beat the first combat encounter granted i have a $#*!load of practice with hotline Miami but still and another thing they show in this episode is an accurate depiction of burnout and pressure now you my be asking how in the blue $#*! does someone get stressed from a stupid video game well let me explain you see people like me like a challenge and when starting a challenge you will actually enjoy yourself (and in the case of this episode the challenge is breaking a million points) but after awhile you get frustrated with yourself and the people around you even if you make the smallest mistake you get mad at yourself and i dont mean like a little dammit i mean full on cussing yourself out because you pushed the wrong button and then comes the section of the experience that still scares the absolute $#*! out of me every day of life when you are in a state of absolute misery and hopelessness its weird you dont even notice it until it's over you set there not even conscious of what you are doing how much time goes and the scary part is this can go on for days weeks and even months in some cases and the thing is you don't feel like yourself and while yes most of the time people see it as you being persistent but you know you don't even feel like yourself and well to sum it up quickly it sucks $#*! and to take a break from that bs i'm gonna talk about the stress now you may find yourself asking how does one get stressed by a stupid video game well it's simple all the time that's all you think about the video game the thought that you might slip at any moment and $#*! up and the worst part is you will lose sleep for days on end and no im joking you will be constantly paranoid of even the though you might lose it got so bad there was a day were a teacher actually asked if i needed some kind of help because apparently i looked out of it (a nicer way of saying i looked high) my eyes were red and bloodshot my sleep schedule was non existent and i always felt paranoid at the fact that maybe i was not good enough to pull it off for example (and yes this is a real story) on time someone thew a paper clip and hit a desk and it kinda reminded me of the death sound in the game i was playing and well i started just saying every curse word and slur i knew and my friend Andy even asked if i was good and i just gave him the death stare and you may be asking how does that scare you well let me explain when people like me play games how i do we lose are minds and start studying every aspect of the game and i mean everything how much health a enemy has how long it would take me to kill a boss the best way to play a part whether it was guns blazing witch was most of the time or stealth and while this process will be the most agonizing mind numbing thing you ever do but what comes next will remedy all the pain you just went through OK let me paint a picture for you you have been playing a game for months you have pushed through some of the worst things anyone could ever imagine you have pushed through blood sweat but not tears because your not a $#*! and your hands have a tone of blisters on them and you get to the final part of the game which you know they devs intentionally made way too hard on purpose and you start to doubt yourself in this moment even though you have been to hell and back you start to think maybe you won't pull through and after days of trying and failing you start to believe you can not pull through so you stop for a week and then after a week at about 3am you get that rush of motivation you decided you are not a $#*! you are gonna pull through you stay up all night analyzing this boss fight in every way possible and then at 6 am you get up your looking like hell but you sure as hell feel amazing you are confident you are gonna pull through you know you have lost dozens of hours of sleep the only reason ever slept was because you stopped functioning and body needed it so at this point you are thinking lets finish this nazi bastard so with this in your head along with a ton of adrenaline you try to turn on your Xbox and pick up the remote and then even though you have studied this so much you get nervous really nervous that feeling of dread stress and nausea you start feel dizzy and lightheaded but you still turn on the Xbox and then this happened you hear the lines that still haunt you more than any thing else you could think of they ring in your head over and over again at this point its like torture every time you die these lines play (general before the day is done i will have you at the end of my blade and force your surrender crawl down a hole general wont save you i am coming for you) -William Joseph Blazkowics and then it starts you jump down the hole and the fight begins and you immediately start berating him with everything you got from plazma shotgun shells for minutes on end and nothing he hasn't even given the audio que for being halfway done but you persevere you know if he as much as touches you your done its over but intrusive thoughts won't be a problem you have been doing this for weeks the thought of winning doesn't even come to mind until it happens so after 2 more minutes of constant berating he enters the 2nd phase and at this point you know it's now or never you know this is it the most confidence you have had throughout this whole experience but in split second you rember who you are you dont make $#*!ing plans you wanna win your way so in a split second you throw it all out the window in go in guns blazing and in this twist of fate you start to feel it the felling that you might throw just because you were being impulsive but then while trying to pull out the shut gun you pull out your crappy pistol and you think its over put then a miracle happened you shoot the pistol and it killed him after hundreds of hours of you life stolen by this old Nazi bastard but in a moment of relief and bliss you dont care about the time wasted your blistered hands you sleep deprived eyes and the slurs said and then your eyes water and you start bawling in raw $#*!ing pride and confidence now this was my experiences with wolfeinstein new order now you may be asking what does this even have to do with south park nothing this was just an excuse to complain about video games so $#*! 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