for those of you unaware, if you are infected with The Virus it means you are no longer able fully enjoy casual gaming. either consciously or subconsciously, you will constantly look for optimizations in your game of choice.
ive recently been made aware that i have many symptoms of The Virus, such as:
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- in a ~2 year period of my life, i only launched tf2 to play mge, dm, scrims, matches, or watch demos exclusively. i did not even play a pub during this time
- i played persona 5 twice so that the second time i could optimize my social links and max out all my personas of choice (my second playthrough took an extra ~50 hours)
- the last time i played minecraft i built an iron farm along with various other automated farms, which was fairly tedious. when i finished making these farms i beat the ender dragon and lost interest in the game
- in SSX 3, i learned about the 2 monster tricks that give you the most points, and completely disregarded every other trick
- in madden franchise mode, i would sign a UDFA qb with high throw power to a 7 year contract and funnel a shit ton of volume into his stats, eventually becoming 99 ovr by his 3rd year, all while taking up virtually 0 of my cap space. i never signed outside linebackers because their contract wasnt worth it, and i would always trade guys at the trade deadline on their contract year to get a huge haul every draft. after a couple of seasons my teams were always 90+ ovr
- in swbf2 2005 i turned off reinforcements on hoth so i could farm vehicle crits with the rocket launcher. when i ran out of ammo i would respawn. this was to unlock the award launcher. in galactic conquest i always bought sniper first, followed by garrison, so i could hard carry my team every fight. i did not lose a single time with this strategy
- in tekken 7 the first thing i learned was the highest damaging combo off of all my launchers, followed by the frame data of all my neutral tools. i spent nearly 100 hours practicing tekken 7 offline before i even played against another human online
- i played persona 5 twice so that the second time i could optimize my social links and max out all my personas of choice (my second playthrough took an extra ~50 hours)
- the last time i played minecraft i built an iron farm along with various other automated farms, which was fairly tedious. when i finished making these farms i beat the ender dragon and lost interest in the game
- in SSX 3, i learned about the 2 monster tricks that give you the most points, and completely disregarded every other trick
- in madden franchise mode, i would sign a UDFA qb with high throw power to a 7 year contract and funnel a shit ton of volume into his stats, eventually becoming 99 ovr by his 3rd year, all while taking up virtually 0 of my cap space. i never signed outside linebackers because their contract wasnt worth it, and i would always trade guys at the trade deadline on their contract year to get a huge haul every draft. after a couple of seasons my teams were always 90+ ovr
- in swbf2 2005 i turned off reinforcements on hoth so i could farm vehicle crits with the rocket launcher. when i ran out of ammo i would respawn. this was to unlock the award launcher. in galactic conquest i always bought sniper first, followed by garrison, so i could hard carry my team every fight. i did not lose a single time with this strategy
- in tekken 7 the first thing i learned was the highest damaging combo off of all my launchers, followed by the frame data of all my neutral tools. i spent nearly 100 hours practicing tekken 7 offline before i even played against another human online
the point i am making here is that i am ass at being a casual gamer. The Virus has taken casual gaming away from me.
do any of you also suffer from The Virus? id love to hear about your many woes that come with it. thank you for hearing my story.