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What is Tropic of Fuckabout?
A hypothetical line in video gaming where high difficulty in a video game stops being a stimulating challenge and starts to become tedious boring and/or frustrating.
Dark Souls is a challenging game but The Surge is a game that crossed the Tropic of Fuckabout.
Tropic of Fuckabout - video
Tropic of Fuckabout - what is it?
The border that distinguishes whether or not the high difficulty of a video game makes the game "challenging but rewarding" or "frustrating and unrewarding."
"Finally, after much frustration and about 900 attempts, I've gotten the core on the ropes and I'm moments from landing the final blow, whereupon I glitch through the floor and fall to my death. No. That's too much. That's gone right over the Tropic of Fuckabout on a jet-ski full of dicks. I'm done. Fuck The Surge, fuck Deck13, fuck anyone who likes it. Blimey, that's filled my schedule out for the week."
-- Zero Punctuation