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All we have to do now is interrupt your game several times a day so you can sit in a room and watch an NPC read every word on every slide on a Powerpoint presentation, or listen to several of them make decisions about a subject they know nothing about.

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This is the 1hr long unskippable cutscene...

And for some reason if I get up and leave to get a drink of water or use the bathroom, _I'm_ the asshole.

Don't worry, it will be paused for your convenience and resumed when you come back.

Ah, good. Would you please excuse me for a second? [leaves office, walks slowly into sea]

Ugh. Those bad early days of WoW where every quest description had to slowly appear on the screen.

That's one thing that drives me crazy, the occasional game I see where you can't accelerate the text at all, it just dribbles out onto the screen at the pace of the slowest reader imaginable.

As a child I could never tolerate watching my friends play Pokemon for that reason. You can increase the text speed from the processional default but none of them ever did.

Link’s Awakening had painful moments like that. Every time you pick up a piece of power or acorn or compass or map. Or bump into a slime block without the boots equipped. Etc.

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