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** [[spoiler:LooterShooter]]: Pick up the loot after the fight, see what serves you and [[VendorTrash sell what doesn't]]. Level up.

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** [[spoiler:LooterShooter]]: Pick up the loot after the fight, see what serves you and [[VendorTrash [[BetterOffSold sell what doesn't]]. Level up.
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** [[spoiler:LooterShooter]]: Pick up the loot after the fight, see what serves you and [[VendorTrash sell what doesn't]]. Level up.
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* [[spoiler:IdleGame]]: Do some tedious task repeatedly in a game that takes excruciatingly long to complete.

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* [[spoiler:IdleGame]]: Do some tedious task repeatedly in a game that takes excruciatingly long to complete. The game itself encourages you to not play it.



** Or: [[GodwinsLaw invade poland]] from the comfort of your home!

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** Or: [[GodwinsLaw invade poland]] Poland]] from the comfort of your home!
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It'll be fun I promise.

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* [[spoiler:IdleGame]]: Do some tedious task repeatedly in a game that takes excruciatingly long to complete.
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** Or: [[GodwinsLaw invade poland]] from the comfort of your home!
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* [[spoiler:Simulator]]: Experience every detail of operating a vehicle or managing a business, especially the boring parts.
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** [[spoiler:DatingSim]]: Get your pathetic life in order so you can hook up with a hottie.
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* [[spoiler:ArtGame]]: Look at scenery and listen to music. May also include some gameplay, but no guarantees.


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* [[spoiler:VisualNovel]]: Click through dialogue and occasionally answer multiple choice questions.
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** [[spoiler:BulletHell]]: There are an absurdly large number of bullets. Most have no chance of hitting anything.


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** Alternatively: Take increasingly convoluted preventative measures to keep [[ZergRush an apparently endless number of things]] from getting to the other side of the screen. Almost nothing at your disposal can move from wherever you put it.

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* [[spoiler:FirstPersonShooter]]: A recreation of things that considered atrocious in real-life, but enjoyed by many people.

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* [[spoiler:FirstPersonShooter]]: A recreation Try to fight despite having no awareness of things that considered atrocious in real-life, your feet.
** [[spoiler:ThirdPersonShooter]]: You can see your feet now,
but enjoyed by many people.your view is shifted to one side.



* [[spoiler:TurnBasedStrategy]]: Think carefully or else the enemy outperform you.

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* [[spoiler:TurnBasedStrategy]]: Think carefully or else the enemy will outperform you.
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Nightmare Fuel hasn\'t had an octane level for a long time now.


* [[spoiler:SurvivalHorror]]: Try not to die. [[CosmicHorrorStory Or go insane]]. [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel Or wet yourself]].

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* [[spoiler:SurvivalHorror]]: Try not to die. [[CosmicHorrorStory Or go insane]]. [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel [[NightmareFuel Or wet yourself]].
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** [[spoiler:HiddenObjectGame]]: Rummage through a guy's trash looking for clues about his personal life.
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** [[spoiler: 4X]]: A disembodied, faceless leader micromanages every unit and every settlement of an empire.

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** [[spoiler: 4X]]: FourX]]: A disembodied, faceless leader micromanages every unit and every settlement of an empire.
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* [[spoiler:[[RolePlayingGame Role-Playing]]]]: [[LevelGrinding Beat the crap out of woodland creatures]], [[KleptomaniacHero rob the houses of people]] [[WelcomeToCorneria who can only say one sentence]] [[AdamSmithHatesYourGuts and repeatedly get ripped off by hotels]] until you save the world.

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* [[spoiler:[[RolePlayingGame Role-Playing]]]]: [[LevelGrinding Beat the crap out of woodland creatures]], [[KleptomaniacHero rob the houses of people]] [[WelcomeToCorneria who can only say one sentence]] sentence]], [[AdamSmithHatesYourGuts and repeatedly get ripped off by hotels]] until you save the world.
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* [[spoiler:FirstPersonShooter]]: From your point of view, you kill things with gun. Maybe [[{{BFG}} bigger]].

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* [[spoiler:FirstPersonShooter]]: From your point A recreation of view, you kill things with gun. Maybe [[{{BFG}} bigger]].that considered atrocious in real-life, but enjoyed by many people.


* [[spoiler:RhythmGame]]: Hit various buttons in the right order at the right time. [[{{Understatement}} Quickly.]]

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* [[spoiler:RhythmGame]]: Hit various buttons in the right order at the right time. [[{{Understatement}} Quickly.]]
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** [[spoiler: SRPG]]: Have TheBigGuy beat the boss within an inch of his life so that the TagalongKid can finish him off.

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** [[spoiler: SRPG]]: StrategyRPG]]: Have TheBigGuy beat the boss within an inch of his life so that the TagalongKid can finish him off.
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** [[spoiler: SRPG]]: Have TheBigGuy beat the boss within an inch of his life so that the TagalongKid can finish him off.

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* [[spoiler:PuzzleGame]]: Match colored bocks in order to score points.

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* [[spoiler:PuzzleGame]]: Match colored bocks A Sisyphean exercise in order to score points.block arrangement.


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** [[spoiler:{{Roguelike}}]]: Get lost, [[YetAnotherStupidDeath die stupidly]].
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* [[spoiler:Puzzlegame]]: Match colored bocks in order to score points.

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* [[spoiler:Puzzlegame]]: [[spoiler:PuzzleGame]]: Match colored bocks in order to score points.
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* [[spoiler:Puzzlegame]]: Match colored bocks in order to score points.


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* [[spoiler:RhythmGame]]: Hit various buttons in the right order at the right time. [[{{Understatement}} Quickly.]]
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** [[spoiler:PlatformHell]]: Asshole game designer tries to frustrate you.
* [[spoiler:RacingGame]]: [[DrivesLikeCrazy Drive like you're terrifyingly sane]].


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* [[spoiler:SurvivalHorror]]: Try not to die. [[CosmicHorrorStory Or go insane]]. [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel Or wet yourself]].
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* [[spoiler:[[RolePlayingGame Role-Playing]]]]: Character building exercises interspersed with conversations.

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* [[spoiler:[[RolePlayingGame Role-Playing]]]]: Character building exercises interspersed with conversations.[[LevelGrinding Beat the crap out of woodland creatures]], [[KleptomaniacHero rob the houses of people]] [[WelcomeToCorneria who can only say one sentence]] [[AdamSmithHatesYourGuts and repeatedly get ripped off by hotels]] until you save the world.
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* [[spoiler:WideOpenSandbox]]: Do whatever you want.
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** [[spoiler:{{MMORPG}}]]: In an endless test of patience, your success rests in the hands of the internet.
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* [[spoiler: TowerDefense]]: Enemies cannot fire and try to run to the exit instead.
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* [[spoiler:FirstPersonShooter]]: Disembodied guns commit genocide.

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* [[spoiler:FirstPersonShooter]]: Disembodied guns commit genocide.From your point of view, you kill things with gun. Maybe [[{{BFG}} bigger]].



* [[spoiler:RealTimeStrategy]]: Think fast.

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* [[spoiler:RealTimeStrategy]]: Think fast.fast before the enemies wipe you.



* [[spoiler:TurnBasedStrategy]]: Think carefully.

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* [[spoiler:TurnBasedStrategy]]: Think carefully.carefully or else the enemy outperform you.

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