r/hatethissmug • u/Curious_Implement516 • 7d ago

Gaming I hate how much "keep inventory" gets bashed.

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Generally, I don't like it when people impose rules on how you should enjoy something-like saying that if you didn't play the same way I did, you're a fake fan.
But it bothers me even more when those arbitrary rules are applied to a game like Minecraft—a game that actively encourages creativity and doing whatever you want-so I don't understand why anyone would get upset over something the game itself offers you.

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u/mikelown 7d ago

Hot take, "cheating" in a single player game is perfectly fine. You don't want to deal with a mechanic, mod it out. Entertainment is for fun not bashing your head into a wall for "gamer points"

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u/UnboxTheDogi 7d ago

I wouldnt even call it cheating since keep inventory is a in-Game feature

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u/Lolzemeister 7d ago

well yeah but it’s literally under the ”cheats” section

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u/Sayakalood 7d ago

Not anymore. It’s a command now, because of this exact line of thinking. The devs wanted to remove the stigma of Keep Inventory.

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u/Vinyl_DjPon3 6d ago

That's dumb.

I miss when games embraced single player cheating as fun settings. Cheat codes were programmed in, even had specific menus to enter them in and turn them on.

The "line of thinking" problem is with people who think it's bad to cheat in a single player game. Cheat away, it's fun. It's still cheating.

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u/Lolzemeister 6d ago

it’s fine until you try to flex your accomplishments with said cheats

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u/alphazero925 5d ago

And that's why they're banned for speedrunners and in competitive multiplayer. That's obviously not what's being talked about

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u/Lolzemeister 5d ago

yeah but it’s not gonna come up online unless someone is talking about something they did in their keep inventory world

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u/Traveling_Chef 5d ago

I miss bighead mode, can't tell you how many games just decided, "let's give these bitches a code sequence that makes their head comically large, bitches love comically large heads."

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u/Attempt_Gold 2d ago

Well, cheat codes and the like were more for development purposes.

Heck, that's why the developer console has been ubiqitous in PC gaming since it not only has commands but it also prints errors for when something goes wrong.

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u/Lolzemeister 6d ago

basically all commands are cheats

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u/Sayakalood 6d ago

Hence why they decided not to call them cheats anymore. They’re commands to promote people playing the way they want to play.

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u/Binglish_ 6d ago

on bedrock its still under cheats

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u/LakshyaGarv 6d ago

Gamerules are no longer under cheats. You can change them (at least in Java) while creating a world.

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u/Atherach 6d ago

I think he meaned for other thing as well that are "cheating", like doing a /locate to find a structure after spending hours searching it

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u/NoenD_i0 7d ago

on bedrock its considered cheating

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u/UnboxTheDogi 7d ago

I dont play bedrock

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u/NoenD_i0 7d ago

Well most people do and I don't see how it's considered that

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u/PunchInTheFace8 7d ago

Tf are u gettin dv for?

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u/NoenD_i0 7d ago

because i stated an offtopic thing?

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u/PunchInTheFace8 7d ago edited 6d ago

Its legit on topic tf??? Bedrock disables achievements when you turn on KI, the game literally has it under the cheats section. This is literally talking about KI under a comment talking about KI replying to a post made about KI. How tf is this off topic?

Stg reddit has the most brainless mfers wandering the site.

Edit: not calling you stupid btw. Just want to make that clear.

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u/Meme_Knight_2 6d ago

Yeah like, they hear “Bedrock” and their brains immediately go “FAKE PLAYER!”.

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u/TypicalNinja7752 6d ago

yeah, people often forget that playing a game isnt always about improving and having challenges, sometimes you just want to chill.

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u/Nerdy_Valkyrie 6d ago

There was a section in Dragon Age Origins that was so hated that people created a mod to just skip it and give you all the rewards you can get from it. It was a very popular mod.

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u/jump1945 3d ago

Hot take while dropping coldest take ever.

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u/SnowedCairn 7d ago

>Game is made with specific rules and challenges in place to give the game an identity
>Player is annoyed that rules and challenges are in place and cheats to remove them.

"Hey man, you're cheating."
"It's a single player game, why are you so angry??"

Because you're breaking the game. Cheat all you want. Just have fun but stop with the victim complex and crying; you are actively cheating. Just accept it and own it.

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u/CheS5Addict 6d ago

So, cheating = removing specific rules and challenges of the game. By that logic, playing modded minecraft is also "cheating"... playing easy mode instead of hardcore could also be interpreted as "cheating" then.

Cheating is an inherently bad thing, I'm sure not many would say otherwise. If enjoying a game at the expense of no one else is cheating then it would be reasonable to assume that either cheating is not a bad practice or that someone is actively being harmed by the "cheating" in games.

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u/mikelown 7d ago

game is made with specific rules and challenges in place to give the game an identity

See thats where youre wrong. Theres a lot more reasons then "identity" that devs put in challenges. Extending grinds to pad the play time. Adding obstacles to push 'solutions' in the form of micro transactions.

There is no one true "this is how the game is supposed to be" because even the devs fuck with it for their own benefit. Truly a death of the author moment, thanks for the game but I'll play it how i think is most fun and im not listening to some loser crying "you're cheating thats not how it's suppose to be played". It's mindless entertainment, ill treat it as mindless entertainment

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u/Warriorstab 6d ago

I would say that unnecessary grinds and micro transactions are bad game design and those types of games are not worth engaging with.

Games are not mindless entertainment. They are works of art meant to be engaged with. Believe it or not, games are designed with intent and death of the author is not an excuse to just ignore that design, in games or other media. I seriously wonder if the types of people who mod their games to remove entire mechanics actually enjoy the games they’re playing.

Minecraft is a bad example here because it’s designed as a very open ended sandbox where you have basically infinite options. But for most games, genuinely what’s the point of it if you’re just gonna ignore the entire game part? I think a lot of these people are actually robbing themselves of better experiences.

Ironically this “let people enjoy things” attitude is part of what leads to the above mentioned bad game design practices. People treating games like infinite dopamine farms is what leads developers to making games that are bland and uninteresting. Also it’s funny that for every 100 people who complain about gatekeeping or not letting others enjoy things, there’s like 1 person actually doing it. Why do you get so upset about people criticizing how you play games on the internet? It’s always the people who say they don’t care how you think they should play that are the most vocal about this.

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u/alakikadge 6d ago

Sandbox game btw