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It's not often that a game will make me angry. I mean, righteous in my guts angry. Technical incompetence isn't enough. I understand and identify with incompetence, and understand how good ideas and noble intentions can get utterly mangled. Lazy annual iterations don't bother me either, and I remember thinking the on-disc DLC for My Beautiful Katamari was quite convenient, all things considered.
Even if a game is openly offensive, I can usually find a way to enjoy it. I can use the Poe's Law reversal, and assume it's just a clumsy parody of "that kind of thing". Or I can invoke the "I've got an idea for a sketch" cliché - can you imagine the boardroom meeting in which this absurd decision was made? Then you just populate the boardroom with loads of hooting idiots, and make them fart between sentences. This approach really helps you deal with the world.
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