It's a metaphor for life, really...

I always play video games up until the hard level where there's some sort of crazy monster that breathes fire or poisonous gases that make you lose energy every step you take. And then you look up "cheats" online, but the cheats tell you that to defeat the monster, you have to stab it. How novel.

Honestly though, I HATE the whole "Try again at a harder level". I understand if there's some mini "easy" level practice version, but when I'm playing on "normal", don't I deserve the normal ending without the condescending message at the end? Don't I deserve to unlock special codes where I can play with Mario wearing different colour overalls?

Life is about not getting rewards and always trying again on harder levels. But taking the easy way out sometimes means you save a lot of time. And time is money. And... where was I going with this? Where am I? Yeah.