r/hatethissmug • • May 30 '26

Gaming I hate thirst bars in video games.

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No game, I don't want to use some of my valuable inventory slots to hold on water bottles, and use said water bottles every 5 minutes, or else I'll slowly and painfully die of thirst. It's not a fun mechanic, it's a chore or just something added to make the game slightly difficult, but in an annoying way.

Sure, it makes the survival game more 'realistic' or whatever, but in most survival games I have to spend extra minutes either building whatever water purifier, or scavenge even more random buildings just for some water for your stupid bar that goes down no matter what you do.

r/hatethissmug • • Aug 29 '26

Gaming GTA VI this jumping animation.

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Bro selected "rotate" and rotated the model 90 degrees as the animation played. Multi-billion dollar companty btw. So um just this idk what to type tf is this so disgusting ew i used to jerk of using emptied pepsi can btw idk this animation is so bad.

r/hatethissmug • • Jul 12 '26

Gaming I hate how artists not pandering to the male gaze is considered puritanical

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I'm actually sick of fake outrage about game studios designing female characters that aren't jerkoff material. Like god forbid a character's design serves the tone and aesthetic of the story they're telling. It's so annoying because men are allowed to be fat, ugly, covered in scars, old but when women aren't waifish with long hair and showing cleavage it's considered woke.
I also hate the way people pretend that artists writing female characters a certain way is "catering to an agenda" and not just artists telling the stories they want.
Also, since I'm ranting anyway how is it not an agenda making murder games horny to boost sales not pushing an agenda?
I think that's the irony of it, when game companies don't market to Gamers™ it's considered pandering as if writers don't have any agency of their own.

Tbh they should just make a manbaby mode for every video game that replaces every woman's model with DOA characters Nah forrreal though I was cooking with that idea lmao

r/hatethissmug • • Jun 30 '26

Gaming Hate when "survival" games do this

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So my guy just happens to pose the ability to fabricate shit from rocks and twigs laying on the ground. Next step is finding some shiny rocks and I've already walked the progression path that took humanity as a whole thousands of years in 20 minutes. Now I just gotta gather some more shiny rocks and I'm done making a full set of steel plate armor (which provides like 20% damage reduction). It's gaming time. "But it's just a video game silly! no need to abide to the laws of physics" you might say, fair point, but no one forced the devs to put the title "survival" on their game. Terraria does this but it's completely fine, because it never claimed to be a survival game. Steam is filled with these open world "survival" exploration sandbox games with little to no focus on survival. Being able to build stuff doesn't make a survival game

r/hatethissmug • • 25d ago

Gaming THIS FUCKING NEPO BABY BITCH

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MY HATRED KNOWS NO BOUNDS. I MEMORIZED THE RED LANTERN OATH BY HEART SIMPLY FOR MY HATRED OF THIS WOMAN. HER MUSIC IS ASS. HER PERSONALITY IS MORE NARCISSISTIC THAN A FUCKING GREEK GOD. HER VOICE IS VERBAL AIDS. HER TEAM-UPS ARE CANCER. HER KIT IS FUCKING ANNOYING. HER FAVORITISM BY THE DEVS COMPARED TO THE REST OF THE ROSTER IS INFURIATING. SHE WILL NOT SHUT THE FUCK UP ABOUT HER MUSIC. HOW THE FUCK DOES WHITE FOX PUT UP WITH HER? I DON'T UNDERSTAND. RAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

r/hatethissmug • • Jul 31 '26

Gaming Gyms in Pokémon fangames where the entire gimick is "you can't use effective Pokémon against my team"

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I ABSOLUTELY HATE THIS. This is so stupid and unfair for literally no reason. The whole point of the game is that it's a rock paper scissors match with so many different type combinations. By making it so A MAJOR obstacle refuses to face you and let you pass if you have something good against them is genuinely so stupid, and if you only have a team of 6 you're most likely unable to have a full team because of these restrictions.

The example here are Claire from Radical Red. And Big Mo from Pokémon Unbound.

r/hatethissmug • • Aug 06 '26

Gaming The state of Minecraft Horror

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I remember back in the early to mid 2010’s when horror mods and horror content for Minecraft in general was decently creepy; Herobrine used to scare the shit out of me as a kid and all those creepypasta mods that were genuinely really well made. I think the last Minecraft horror story I liked was Searching for a World that Doesn’t Exist and even then it was reaching a little. Now a lot of it is centered towards PNGs are mods that don’t even look like Minecraft. Not to mention the fact that pretty much as soon as a mod sees you, you die instantly. There isn’t fighting back. Minecraft just becomes a simulator of how many times can you die and that’s not super fun. Then there’s Verity. When I say horror content for Minecraft hardly looks like Minecraft, I mean Verity. He’s a round ball IN A WORLD MADE OF CUBES. Also the whole he kills you in real life too is really dumb. At least the King in Yellow in Searching was reasonably creepy in that he’s a cosmic being that drives you insane. Verity is just a ball with a smiley face. This might be just an instance of “old man yelling at cloud” but horror Minecraft just isn’t very scary anymore

r/hatethissmug • • Jun 10 '26

Gaming I HATE Class of '09

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I just can't stand this stupid ass game. I have no idea who in their right mind would find it funny or deep or even entertaining. I see so many "Class of '09 Without Context" compilations, yet they consist mostly of the characters saying "Fuck" and sometimes insulting each other in edgy ways only a middle schooler would not cringe at, and people LAUGH THEIR ASSES OFF in the comments and say how genius this game is.

Not just the compilations but the whole game feels like it was made by an dumb edgy teen who thinks they're better than everyone else despite being nothing more than a dumb edgy teen. The "deep" topics and the "clever" insults in the game ooze I'm 14 And This Is Deep/Not Like Other Girls, and the characters we're supposed to play as and support geniunely make me wish I could have an option to smash my head against the wall in the game. The literal only good part of the game was the intro and then I kept catching flashbacks from my Tumblr emo fandom era. "I'm one of the few who still listen to rock, share if you agree" vibes.

And before you say "they're supposed to be anti-heroes", we still connect with Walter White or Dexter in their respective shows despite them being literal criminals and murderers. Not because they're right but because they're complex and interesting characters and we want to know what happens next. So no, it doesn't work like that. We're still supposed to like the main character, or else it's just unpleasant.

The stupidest fucking thing is that the creator seems to geniunely believe he did something and that this game is in any way clever or witty. Annnd then he flopped completely with the second game which was a fetishy disaster. Who would've thought.

Thank you for reading this bullshit.

r/hatethissmug • • Sep 03 '26

Gaming I hate this godawful game. I can't believe it has pretty much perfect rating on steam. This is a sizzling hot take so read below for full context its not that long.

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From the premise I expected this game to be about AI/consciousness/humanity/soul but it is actually about none of those things instead it is a really really bad if not straight up harmful analogy about American civil rights movement through the lens of robots.

Through the playthrough you are constantly reminded about racism in America

Riding at the back of the bus

Black lives matter sign

Rebel leader is a Black robot

References to MLK speech

Okay so what's the problem with that? you may ask. Well the problem is Robots are not human by definition they don't think like humans ( they can calculate their route shown in gameplay ), they can be repaired, they can change identity on a dime.

But for some reason they feel emotions simulated or not, how did they gain "free will" to feel those emotions? Never explained they just glitch and voila they are free now.

From the humans perspective it is completely reasonable to be "racist" towards them since as far as they know they are toasters with human faces even if they say they have soul and they sing and draw how are we suppose to believe them? game never goes deep into this topic

In real life Racism is completely irrational and unreasonable but by comparing black people to literal robots this game makes the hilarious point that racism is actually scientifically reasonable but we shouldn't do it because it feels bad.

r/hatethissmug • • Aug 22 '26

Gaming I hate Pokemon Nostalgia

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I know that sounds wrong but hear me out first.

I don't hate if you feel nostalgia towards older Pokémon Games and their Designs. What I hate is to what double standards people hold new Pokémon.

For example Flamigo. More than once have I heard people saying it is barely a Pokemon, they just implemented a real animal, they must be getting desperate. They did things like this in Kanto already. They made a seal and called it a day.

There is also the complete opposite of the example, the Object-Mons. People dislike them simply for being objects instead of animals. Guess what? That's right, Object-Mons existed since Kanto too. We have Magnemite, a living magnet, Muk, a living Goo, and many more. So why are Pokemon like this suddenly a problem?

r/hatethissmug • • Jul 26 '26

Gaming i never liked any of toby fox's games but i cant ever express it without getting called "weird"

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i never liked undertale, that game was always so weird and so lame for me, just a generic "wHat IF tHE MoNSterS weRE goOd" genre, specially since none of his games arent on any other language that isnt english or japanese

and the part i hate the most is that i cant say i dislike his games or what he does because he has so many fans that would kill for him or whatever that you cant even say a single bad thing about neither deltarune or undertale

r/hatethissmug • • Aug 07 '26

Gaming I hate how Tacticool/Milsim game communities are overrun by chud LARPers that take themselves way too seriously

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edit: I should clarify. I hate running into people who take it weird too seriously when I am playing servers that are explicitly not labeled as role-play servers. I have no problem with people who like to RP in a MilSim game. But you should not expect everyone to conform to that if they are playing in a generic public server. MilSim only encourages RP, it does not enforce it. MilSim is about the mechanics of the game.

2: I’m playing these games because I enjoy the mechanics, gear, environments, gameplay possibilities. It’s perfectly possible to enjoy something for the fun of it and not want to engage with the overly serious role-play that some people try to force on you. My main issue here is the intolerance of some of these guys. Let me enjoy the game I bought in my own way, while still being an effective teammate, and you can enjoy your role-play. Just don’t force it down my throat.

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I love games like Arma, Ghost Recon, Ready or Not, etc. But those communities take themselves WAYYYYY too seriously sometimes.

If you dare suggest anything that is not multicam-covered army slop, suggest anything that doesn’t perfectly fit into their tier 1 operator fantasy, suggest incorporating ideas and mechanics from other IPs, or don’t play the game/communicate in a way that isn’t LARPing real life military units, then you get shunned, kicked, banned, yelled at, etc.

doesn’t matter if you like and enjoy the game. Doesn’t matter if you’re playing the objective in a multiplayer match. Doesn’t matter if what you are doing is helping your squad win and stay alive. There’s always such a massive chunk of these communities that just take it way too seriously and you WILL adhere to THEIR fantasy.

I think games like these are cool, fun, a nice change of pace, and it is *sometimes* neat to try and immerse yourself a little in the environment and the operator fantasy, but it’s often better to not interact with their communities that much. which is especially hard when they’re multiplayer.

r/hatethissmug • • Mar 12 '26

Gaming I hate Mascot horror as a whole

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Everything about this genre is slop, and it's never actually scary, especially when they try to go the "innocent but actually spooky" route, like it's so cliché. People want to act like the story of these games are amazing when it's just convoluted bullshit just so Game Theory can make a video on it, and at the end of the day it's just dead kids. This genre solely exist for a quick buck, to sell toys and produce Elsagate content for braindead iPad babies.

r/hatethissmug • • Jun 25 '26

Gaming “This skin is goonerbait”

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I don’t play fortnite or watch the show so maybe there’s some angle I’m missing but really? THIS is gooner bait to you? Okay. I think we all should take a step back and look inwards to really self analyze cause if someone is actually out there gooning to this.. saw this and immediately thought bout how sexually appealing it is.. man what are we even doing

r/hatethissmug • • Mar 01 '26

Gaming This reddit ass game

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I genuinely dislike everyone except the fire guy or the blonde girl

r/hatethissmug • • 21d ago

Gaming I hate the “___ is just ___” arguments when it’s clearly something way more.

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As in the partial screenshot of a tweet, someone is trying to heavily downplay the achievement of Geometry Dash level Grief being verified (first person to fully beat) by calling it just “clicking one button in a rhythm”. While true in terms of it being a one button game, it ignores absolutely everything else that makes the game hard. Plus, the game isn’t even a rhythm game. 99% of the levels on GD do not have sync all throughout the level and the only levels that do are ones that are specifically built for sync. If GD is just clicking in a rhythm, then art is just paint, movies are just pixels, music is just some noise, and etc.

edit: i have zero knowledge about the people in the league community so dont say stuff like “you’re stupid for believing him” because i actually know nothing about this person

edit 2: im not saying that verifying grief is the hardest gaming achievement so stop commenting about that

r/hatethissmug • • Apr 26 '26

Gaming I hate P.I. Mouse for hire

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This game straight up feels like its only meant to make a bunch of steamboat willie references and have “haha cool cuphead artsyle”. It attempts to be a mix of cuphead and doom and fails misbearlly, aswell as trying to make a bunch of old cartoon references (take a shot for every time you find a steamboat willie reference). The game itself just feels off, the fact that it has the rubberhose style but solely relies on that makes it suck, take example: making the music have old fuzz (similar to fallout 2 intro and cuphead). The game doesn’t actually feel like your playing a rubberhose cartoon, it just relies solely on the art style. And i’m fine with atleast 1-2 pop-culture easter eggs but theres SO MANY it feels like it takes away from the game and tries to make as much references as humanly possible

r/hatethissmug • • Sep 22 '26

Gaming Dave the diver’s collabs

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I see this fat fuck everywhere this days like why this dude in every game😭😭😭😭😭 dave the diver might be good but i never played it but the amount of collabs is scary like holy shit😭 also the guilty gear strive one is just a sprite from the game and not something special like every other game that pissed me off

r/hatethissmug • • Apr 28 '26

Gaming I can’t look at her

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I just can’t look at her. Am I going insane? She doesn’t look like 6 years old, or is it just me? I know that she’s some kind of robot or something but everything about her makes me feel uneasy, like she’s extremely creepy for me. I heard that game is pretty fun to play, even tried watching it for a while but damn, can’t stand this kid.

r/hatethissmug • • Jun 01 '26

Gaming I hate item durability mechanics in video games

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Items or tools breaking is a super annoying mechanic that doesn't make games more fun or challenging imo. I don't mind that much when an item's durability hits zero, it just becomes unusable until you repair it, but I dislike when an item completely vanishes upon breaking it.

Animal Crossing New Horizons' durability mechanic I especially loathe because 1. There is no bar or indicator to show when tools are about to break. 2. Nearly ALL tools break, even the golden tools which are supposed to be a reward for the player's hard work. 3. It discourages players from fully enjoying the game's activities such as fishing and bug catching. I understand axes breaking in New Leaf to prevent the player from having too much power at first, but golden axes are unbreakable.

r/hatethissmug • • Sep 13 '26

Gaming I hate "we only used it for concept art" as an excuse for using Gen AI

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So I saw this adorable looking game called "Family Time" sweeping Twitter, so I checked out it's Steam page.... and found this. And I ask, how is this an excuse??!! You literally have artists in your team, why not have them, I dunno, draw the concept art themselves??!! Like I can't be the only one that feels like it's a slap in the face to the artists in the team??!!

r/hatethissmug • • Jun 06 '26

Gaming Hate how Asian women are infantilized

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yes I saw that one image where the mc looked young but that was literally one frame compared to a 3 minute trailer where she looked like guess what, a young Asian adult

the person on the left is a Asian woman and the right is the stellar blade mc

r/hatethissmug • • Jul 29 '26

Gaming I am concerned about a good chunk of the blue archive fanbase

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I like the designs and the characters are great but the fanbase can be crazy at times, i can excuse some of what they do with the older characters but there is no excuse for the younger ones specifically like ibuki, she looks like an eleven year old, speaks like an eleven year old and is an eleven year old, i dont want to hear "uoh" and "daughterwife" when she hasnt even hit puberty. Also cheers to the goat kayoko for being one of the few characters who isnt under 18.

r/hatethissmug • • Aug 23 '26

Gaming The Ghost design from COD post 2019

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I haven’t played any of the modern warfare games post 2019, but what the hell is going on with Ghost’s design? Back in 2009, he was just an elite operator who wore a balaclava with a skull print on it, something you could find in a ski shop or thrift store. Operators have done similar things in real life so I can suspend my disbelief. It was a simple accessory, but gave him so much personality and made him stand out.

But now he wears some plastic half-mask on his face? What purpose does it serve? It’s too small to be a ballistic mask, No real military operators wear anything like that, and sometimes he’s wearing a cape? He went from an operator expressing himself with a unique balaclava to looking like a full on cosplayer on the battlefield. It just seems like they’re trying to turn him into a superhero now, like a knockoff punisher or something. It would have made more sense if he just wore a ballistic mask or something with a skull painted on it rather than a custom molded face plate that’s somehow attached to his face at all times.

r/hatethissmug • • 26d ago

Gaming I hate how deltarune fans shove their unfunny jokes into normal unrelated things

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Say your old? Deltarune fans flock to spam "I'm old" memes. Woody from toy story?. Friend inside me. A Knight that roars? Roaring Knight. Get some new jokes already <!at least they aren't as bad as the larpers to say the least. Anyway, take my opinion with a grain of salt if you like these jokes.>!