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Have I ever complained about boss fights before? Spoiler alert: Yes I have, multiple times, in these very pages<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Is that going to keep me from doing it again? Not a chance, pal.<\/p>\n

Because listen, it bears repeating: Boss fights are bullshit\u2014tedious holdovers from the arcade era designed to separate stupid kids (like me) from their hard-earned quarters with maximum efficiency.<\/p>\n

Yet they’ve stuck with us over the years, like a particularly stubborn clot of old gum and dogshit on the bottom of a shoe, and worse they’ve somehow mutated into a sort of digital dick-measuring contest for a great many gamers, flaunted like some masochistic badge of honor: I spent seven hours battling Lord Thunderdingus with a banana before I was able to get on with the game!<\/em><\/p>\n

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We’re spending the week airing all our grievances with gaming and computing in 2025. Hit up the Gripes Week hub<\/a> for more of what’s grinding our gears.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

But they are not! They are bullshit! A pointless blocker of progress, the button-mashing equivalent of a maze in an adventure game\u2014a tiresome chore serving no purpose but to pad out the clock. Were you enjoying your game? Too bad, sucker!<\/em> Because now you get to deal with this idiotic wall of frustration for a half-hour or so\u2014maybe longer, maybe a lot longer!\u2014before you’re allowed back to your actual game!<\/p>\n

And I ask why. Why? Why<\/em> am I doing this? It’s not fun, it’s not coherent, it’s only there because boss fights have always been there so boss fights must always be there, and so here I am stuck with this dumb, no-fun bullshit until I either get lucky, find a cheat or a cheese, or just quit and play something else\u2014and you better believe that third option will be taken if the first two don’t work out right quick. Life’s too short and I got better things to do, which when it comes to boss fights is pretty much anything that’s not a boss fight.<\/p>\n

You might fairly point out that I absolutely loved Elden Ring<\/a>, a game that is essentially a big box o’ boss fights, which makes my professed hatred of the things seem a little, well, insincere. But the reality is that I loved ER because I played a character built specifically to delete<\/em> those assholes with near-zero effort. As the man said, I’m not here to fight, I’m here to kill, and you better believe I did\u2014I vaporized every one of those sons of bitches and I loved every second of it.<\/em> Payback time! Who’s the boss now, dickheads?<\/p>\n

But it’s the exception that proves the rule, isn’t it? And that rule is simple, clear, and indisputable: Boss fights are bullshit. Man, I hate ’em.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n

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Have I ever complained about boss fights before? Spoiler alert: Yes I have, multiple times, in these very pages. Is that going to keep me from doing it again? Not a chance, pal. Because listen, it bears repeating: Boss fights are bullshit\u2014tedious holdovers from the arcade era designed to separate stupid kids (like me) from their hard-earned quarters with maximum efficiency. Yet they’ve stuck with us over the years, like a particularly stubborn clot of old gum and dogshit on the bottom of a shoe, and worse they’ve somehow mutated into a sort of digital dick-measuring contest for a great many gamers, flaunted like some masochistic badge of honor: I spent seven hours battling Lord Thunderdingus with a banana before I was able to get…<\/p>\n

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