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** The game punishes the AI for cheating.
** The game gives tools to the player that enable them to punish the AI for cheating.
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** The game's AI [[TheComputerIsACheatingBastard cheats like hell]], which gives the player an incentive to cheat as well and dish out some well deserved karma.

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** The game's AI [[TheComputerIsACheatingBastard cheats like hell]], it's going out of style]], which gives the player an incentive to cheat as well and dish out some well deserved karma.
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** The game's AI [[TheComputerIsACheatingBastard cheats like hell]], which gives the player an incentive to cheat as wel and dish out some well deserved karma.

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** The game's AI [[TheComputerIsACheatingBastard cheats like hell]], which gives the player an incentive to cheat as wel well and dish out some well deserved karma.
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** You will get game over if you didn't cheat the game.
** [[MindScrew The game]] [[TheComputerIsACheatingBastard cheats itself]] [[MindScrew and the player destroys it for doing so.]]

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** You will get a game over if you didn't cheat you've never cheated the game.
** [[MindScrew The game]] game's AI [[TheComputerIsACheatingBastard cheats itself]] [[MindScrew and like hell]], which gives the player destroys it for doing so.]]an incentive to cheat as wel and dish out some well deserved karma.
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* '''Inverted''': The game encourages you to cheat at multiple points.

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The game encourages you to cheat at multiple points.points.
** You will get game over if you didn't cheat the game.
** [[MindScrew The game]] [[TheComputerIsACheatingBastard cheats itself]] [[MindScrew and the player destroys it for doing so.]]

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* '''Parodied''': It's literally impossible to beat the game without using a minor cheat code. However the cheat code is written on the wall with its effects by a LockedDoor that requires using it to destroy it. The hero's love interest chews him out for cheating despite hero's protests that it was literally impossible otherwise but the love interest never lets him live it down.

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It's literally impossible to beat the game without using a minor cheat code. However the cheat code is written on the wall with its effects by a LockedDoor that requires using it to destroy it. The hero's love interest chews him out for cheating despite hero's protests that it was literally impossible otherwise but the love interest never lets him live it down.down.
** You can't cheat ''at all'', even when you're ''forced'' to. The computer, on the other hand? [[TheComputerIsACheatingBastard It gets away scot free]] ''[[{{Hypocrite}} no matter how much it cheats]].'' It's even ''praised'' for taking such bold actions while you get the most ''severe'' punishments for using the most minor of cheats.

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** The game was programmed in such a way that it can't handle cheating devices; alternatively, all rules are known and all moves are made openly between two human players, rendering all cheating obvious.

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** The game was programmed in such a way that it can't handle cheating devices; alternatively, all devices.
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rules are known and all moves are made openly between two human players, rendering all cheating obvious.


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** It's a multiplayer-only game and [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin not fair to cheat.]] Running cheat software is legitemately harming everyone else's fun, so the cheater gets kicked.
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** The main character starts to harangue you for cheating, but then concedes, "well, that's the kind of guy I am" as he rewrites his hp total.

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** The main character starts to harangue you for cheating, but then concedes, "well, that's the kind of guy I am" as he rewrites his hp HP total.



* '''Double Subverted''': The main character starts to get angry, and then shrugs and rewrites his hp total...and then your save file gets deleted.

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* '''Double Subverted''': The main character starts to get angry, and then shrugs and rewrites his hp HP total...and then your save file gets deleted.

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* '''Played For Laughs''': [[YouLoseAtZeroTrust All of your love-interests will get upset]] and [[StealthPun react the same as if they caught you engaged in infidelity, even if you never even dated them.]]
* '''Implied''': Getting an extremely high score causes mission control's reaction to go from praising to disgust that Bob's actions are "Just sickening and unfair." Getting a score that high requires either cheated resources or extreme skill and going out of your way to kill literally every enemy on screen.
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** You use a cheat code, and the game [[FinalDeath permanently breaks itself]] or leads you to a NonStandardGameOver.

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** You use a cheat code, and the game [[FinalDeath [[GameBreakingBug permanently breaks itself]] or leads you to a NonStandardGameOver.
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* '''Reconstructed''': Cheating is punished because it's really bad for the fabric of reality in game, doing so multiple times leads to an epic MindScrew as reality caves in on itself in a NonstandardGameover.

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* '''Reconstructed''': Cheating is punished because it's really bad for the fabric of reality in game, in-game, doing so multiple times leads to an epic MindScrew as reality caves in on itself in a NonstandardGameover.
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