There is often something funny about a strident online comment that is obviously borne out of someone’s personal comedic frustration.

In the comments about an early version of Farcry (or something similar) someone posted saying “…whichever Developer thought it was a good idea for the AI to chase an injured player RELENTLESSLY across the map!”

Just gave me a vision of a deeply frustrated player limping for miles across the game map while a group of dim-witted AI enemies follow slightly behind taking pot shots at him!

Talking of player frustration, reminds me once I was playing the online game Battlefield and was lurking in the bushes near an enemy base with explosives hidden next to the road. Along came an Anti-Aircraft vehicle whom I promptly blew up and then set up again. About 5 minutes later the same player (now Respawned) in the same vehicle came back, and was clearly looking intensely around and especially carefully at the road and the fern under which I had hidden my equipment. After a good minute or so they were satisfied and moved past.

At which point I blew them up again…

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