The thing is, most of those games could be beaten in like 20-30 minutes once you knew what to do. Especially the earlier ones.
So yeah, you had to start over. Yeah, they force you to replay things that you already know how to do, but it's really not that long. That's just how games were done back then.
Dark Souls might be "fair" but the runs back to the spots where you're learning and dying a lot can get really fucking tedious as well.
not like snowflake where they know exactly what it means and they hate it
I don't think this is the case. "Snowflake" just means that someone thinks they're very, very special and unique ... like a snowflake. The only time I've ever seen leftists use it is as a euphemism for "fragile".
There was a time when Eagle was just a stop sign and a few houses.
I grew up near Boise in the '80s and never even heard of "Eagle," despite regularly making the trip up and down the I84 corridor between Boise and Fruitland.
How as Independence Day jingoistic? It was people vs. aliens, and the USA gets its shit ruined just like the rest of the world.
The closest you could get to an "America, fuck yeah!" message is that the U.S. figures out how to destroy the motherships first. Somehow the rest of the world also successfully destroys them without advanced military hardware.
The feds already know who I am.
Anyone else is going to need quite a bit more than a few towns and a decade to identify anything. My description applies to damn near everyone from that area. It's small but it's not that small.