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Shout out to Nanashi no Game. The plot involves a game that will supposedly kill you unless you beat it, but playing it kills you anyway. So one of the characters calls its bluff. Can it really kill him if he never plays it at all?

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Originally posted in response to whether Dark Souls should have an easy mode:

I think missing the point on purpose is a creative experience of its own. My go-to example is Lovecraft. It would be impossible for black writers to write Lovecraft-inspired fiction if they weren’t intentionally missing the point of the anti-black stuff. But they do, and sometimes it’s good. So if you want to take The Lord of the Rings, and intentionally miss the point of Frodo and Sam by making them a gay couple, make it cute or hot and it’s still a worthwhile approach. Or if you take a Grand Theft Auto game, and you miss the point of the social satire and criticism of wealth-seeking by modding it so you can play as Hatsune Miku, it’s not like the satire was very good in the first place. So folks who mod an easy mode for Dark Souls have just as much my blessing as that person who turned an Anne Rice book into a coffee cup.