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Hurt Me Plenty

Challenge is not punishment, I tell myself. I bristle at references to players of games like Super Meat Boy and Dark Souls as “masochists.” I may love difficult games, but I’m no masochist—I should know if that were the case! In the process of reading up to support my thesis that this is an unfair categorization I was forced to admit: maybe I’m a masochist after all.