Hot Take: If your primary reason to want a game to succeed or buy a game is spite, you don’t actually care whether it’s good. (hexbear.net)

submitted 2 months ago by NoahFuel@hexbear.net to c/games@hexbear.net

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If the main motivation is “to own the haters”, “to prove people wrong”, “to make a group mad” …then the game itself is a weaponized prop and That’s how you end up defending mid products harder than you’d ever defend great ones.

rooting for success out of spite isn’t healthier than rooting for failure out of spite

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[-] insurgentrat@hexbear.net 2 points 2 months ago

A) hot takes are silly, be considered.

B) Your posts on this com that I see tend towards rather banal thought bubbles or uncontroversial reddit controversy commentary.

I am sure you can develop your thoughts more and provide insight or other contributions instead of vagueposting.

this post was submitted on 26 Jan 2026

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