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wow cheating in single player games is highly offensive to massive nerds. Think twice next time
Not sure if this post is meant to be serious or not, but there's no such thing as cheating in a single player game.
semantic nonsense. it's cheating at solitaire if you look at the face down cards.
I really, genuinely want to push back on this, and I don't think it's semantic nonsense. It's about how we approach play and games: from the perspective as just a "consumer", or an engaged person who creates an experience.
In the context of game playing, cheating is something you do to other people without their consent. By breaking the trust in the shared ruleset, you fundamentally break the activity. But when you're playing alone, you are creating a self-directed experience. And in particular, I think one of the things that is most important about self-directed play is establishing your own parameters of the experience. One super cool thing about games with extensive communities is how many tools and modifications are developed to make the experience what you want it to be.
if i sit down with a deck of cards to play klondike solitaire i'm moving some pieces of paper around on my table according to rules. If i proceed to not hold myself to those rules then i'm cheating at the game i previously intended to play.
we can certainly undermine our own self-directed experiences. sometimes that's actually inventing a new game variant, usually it's just inconsequential cheating.
Looking at hidden information you promised yourself not to, or keeping score incorrectly for yourself, any breaking of a self-imposed game rule is cheating at the game and i don't have anything else to call it.
I probably would just git good 
Just joking, I dont care but truthfully I havent cheated in a game since I was a kid and used godmode in morrowind and cheats in rts games.
Most people wait until after maggot lair to respec into Hammerdin for this exact reason.
That said there are a few options if you’re stuck:
- Get a teleportation staff from Drognan and skip through most encounters
- Save a point for Smite and go through slowly
- Give your merc a slotted pole arm with normal (lv. 12) topaz/ruby and let them clear ahead with concentration aura
- You can hug the walls and position yourself to hit an enemy directly in front by bear hugging them at their bottom right but it’s tricky
It's not cheating if it's only affecting your experience. This is always true in singleplayer games, in multiplayer games, not as often.
Poweroverwhelming
skill issue
I have reports on this comment and whilst I'm sure op understands it's a joke lets remember to include some additional context or tone indicators so all readers can understand.
I used to use a muling program when I played D2 single player.
It's your game. You bought/pirated it fair and square, so enjoy it for on your terms
Please don't write clickbait titles. It's a selfish and antisocial behaviour that rests in annoying other people so they will pay attention to you.
We can leave the corporate internet behind by considering the human on the other end.
i cheat in every game if i can 
i've grown too old to care about "gamer cred" for beating a hard gayme. as long as you're having fun do what you want in your single player experience
lol ladder rand doesn't know to drop a point in smite for clearing ubers or smacking dudus get gud lmk
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