By denmarkguy on Skatehive
I remember a while back, talking to a friend who was struggling with something and they were constantly trying to find different ways to come up with shortcuts to make it easier. Why we didn't really have much of a conversation and I ended up leaving that conversation with memories about a part of my own past when I was briefly involved in gaming. Interestingly enough, one of the things that ended up turning me off (multiplayer) gaming was the fact that everybody was seemingly looking for ways to make challenging games easier by finding "cheat codes", or systems that would somehow break down the game and make it easy when it was actually (supposed to be) difficult. The reason I felt somewhat put off was this obsession with making everything easy. I wanted to play the game, not cheat the game. Don't get me wrong, I tend to be rather lazy by nature and like things to be as easy as possible, but how do we really benefit from taking the challenge out of everything by putting all our effort