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Why do we do this to ourselves

You poor soul

Last night a game made me utterly miserable. There's an embargo on the specifics of that misery, but I will tell you I was playing an upcoming Souls-like. I butted my head against demonic arseholes for a solid hour, throwing myself into their jaws time and time again. On this occasion I happened to be doing it because it was my job, but I suspect I would have done it anyway, for ""fun"".

Weird, that.

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Matt Cox

Former Staff Writer

Once the leader of Rock Paper Shotgun's Youth Contingent, Matt is an expert in multiplayer games, deckbuilders and battle royales. He occasionally pops back into the Treehouse to write some news for us from time to time, but he mostly spends his days teaching small children how to speak different languages in warmer climates.