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I miss the trend of games insulting you for quitting
(lemmy.world)
Similarly, picking a difficulty option in Doom
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Both of the examples you give are Id - and to be honest, I feel like this was always more of an Id thing than it was an overall trend
Yeah that's very much id's old 90's machismo. This is the company that invented the word "gibbitude" in Ultimate Doom's flavor text xD
Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri would vocalise "Please don't go. The drones will miss you. They look up to you" when you go to quit.