There's a sub called /r/patientgaymer where they talk about avoiding hype and AAA Ubisoft slop, mostly because they are too poor.
One often slapfight inducing topic is difficulty, where boomer 
postwall gaymers lament their inability to have the same millisecond reaction time at the ripe old age of 31 vs their tween years, and how they enjoy gaymes on easy mode when their kiddies have finally gone to sleep or whatever.
Their natural enemies are the ultrastrags of Soulslike gaymers, where they have only one singular measure of worth in theri NEET 
lives - beating the most DIFFICULT games of all time!! Darksouls, the true value and bragging rights of a g*mer
Between the 2 groups the Soulshit cute twinks are the more obnoxious, any mention of easy and soul in the same sentence makes their eternal turbo g*mers lose their collective 
Soulshit isn't for p*ssies! It's a manly man's gayme! Any suggestion of future Soulshit having an easy mode for grandpa, even if modded is an affront to god.
Right anyways for todays 
https://old.reddit.com/r/patientg*mers/comments/15f70ao/the_absolute_joy_of_playing_games_on_easier/
Boomer gaymer says he enjoys easy mode, fights ensue
Most gaymer soy speech ever:
"We are always looking to improve, but, in our games specifically, hardship is what gives meaning to the experience. So it's not something we're willing to abandon at the moment. It's our identity." -Hidetaka Miyazaki
It's toxic AF to respect the developers vision for their own games? Criticize it all you want, but at least respect their artistic integrity. 
Defenders of Soulshit come forth!
Soulshit tantrums prove the guy right
RELEASE THE DOWNMARSEYS AGAINST THE HERETIC 
easy mode r*pes the integrity of the experience! or something
"There are untold hundreds, thousands of games with an easy mode, and people still find ways to throw shade at the handful that don't." wat 
"No, try criticizing a From Software game for excluding difficulty settings and you will quickly be downmarseyd." DIE B-WORD DIE
Dark souls has a target audience 
just like any other game and any given game isn't going to be able to cater to exactly everyone. Even the games with a variety of difficultly options, because that game even with difficulty options may just not be their thing. The point of dark souls is that it's difficult, that is the “experience” I HAVE SO LITTLE DIFFICULTY IN LIFE I NEED CHALLENGE IN MY ESCAPISM FRICK YOU
Difficulty settings is not something that should be forced on developers
What the frick are these losers talking about lmoa
Translation: 
my farts smell so good
@XY plz pin
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There not that difficult and the difficulty which exists serves the artistic aesthetic of the game, timing down the difficulty which remove the oppressive feeling of being in a hostile and brutal world. Not everything is for you.
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I think this misunderstanding comes from the fact that the game is built around you dying. The game expects you to die and there are mechanics around you dying
you die 
woah man I died 7 times on this boss! This game must be hard!
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You'd think the end of the quarter muncher era would have meant g*mers would have been less mad about dying since there is no cost except a bit of your time (Unless it's a game like darkest dungeon where a few bad rolls means you lose hours of progress you spent grinding up your dudes lol)
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Oh shit speaking of, you just reminded me that I left it unfinished after ragequitting once my fully geared, maxxed out team got wiped by RNG. Will have to finish that next, thanks for reminding me
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Same, I haven't played it for years after that and you just reminded me to uninstall it.
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I can see why fans of the Darkest Dungeon wouldn't like how short the second game's campaigns are, but the idea of failing a campaign after 20+ hours of progress is brutal. I'd end one gaming session thinking, "This is a stable run," and then play again the next day and everything goes to shit.
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Don't forget to install the erotic mods off loverslab which I was just told existed
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it doesn't even track how often you die. It's basically "lol, try again". Some people just get so offended when a game doesn't hold your hand and jerk you off at every moment.
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Given that most games you can play through on the standard difficulty without dying or being challenged at all yeah. Personally I don't get why people are so adverse to dying in games.
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I remember when Death Stranding was coming out and it was talking about focusing on how death will transform the world. People would shit themselves over the idea that they could "ruin" their experience by dying.
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I don't know how much you've played any of them but you may not have realized it's possible to not die
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That should be enough. These games also DO have an easy mode: summoning. Elden Ring even allows summoning of npcs that actually are better than other players in many situations.
Are these people saying that they want to be able to beat these games without summoning or are they so bad that they still can't win with summons? Either way, it's not the game for them.
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