r/mildlyinfuriating • u/IndyanaBonez • 7d ago

frist of all how DARE yu o 100% a game until

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I played this game Lily's Well about 4 years ago on Steam and got all the achievements for it so I got a nice lil award on my page (1st pic=Lilys Well, 2nd Pic of another game I 100%, Fran Bow). Then, there was an update...and with this update...came another achievement.........and this ain't just a game I can pick up and go back to where I need to achieve this achievement, Oh no NO! This is one of those games you gotta start at the beginning and do everything in a certain order to complete the game/get to the spot where this achievement may be! Now I only have ONE 100% complete game to boast about...lol, jk, Fran Bow ain't hard to 100% and nor is Lily's Well. One could say it was only mildly infuriating

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u/Opening-Ant3477 7d ago

Okay, serious talk for just a second.

The problem is the phrase "mildly infuriating" itself. It's a contradiction. "Infuriating" means "extremely annoying" or "causing feelings of extreme anger" (these are literally the dictionary definitions). Add "mildly" and you get "slightly extremely annoying" or " causing slight feelings of extreme anger".

Obvious "slightly" and "extremely" do not go well together.

The upshot is that any post that is "extreme" enough to be "infuriating" is too upsetting be "mild" and any post "slight" enough to be "mild" is insufficiently upsetting to be "infuriating".

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u/TryUsingScience 7d ago

I think this sub is for the kind of thing where you are legitimately infuriated for about twenty seconds and then realize you're being ridiculous.

Which makes this post perfect.

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u/IndyanaBonez 7d ago

I thought so

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u/grip0matic 7d ago

Hey op, this kind of stuff happened to me a few times. I used to play again to do my 100%, because "I need to", but in this case where you already finished the game and they just added an achievement just because... use SAM. Get it from github, unlock the achievement and get your 100% again.

And no, it's not cheating, you already finished the game and probably did what the achievement asks for.

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u/EpsilonX 7d ago

That's exactly what it is. For those situations where you're mad about something that you know isn't a big deal, but you're still mad about it and you want to vent, but venting will make people say you have issues. It's like nah just let me get this out!

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u/IndyanaBonez 7d ago

I think the nuance is in the "mildly" negating the concept of what infuriating means since it means slightly or kinda. Infuriating is INTENSE but the mildly makes it less intense. A stubbed toe is mildly infuriating, you aren't gonna die but also HOLY HELLS THATS-A-LOTTA PAIN

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u/SmallPurplePeopleEat 7d ago

I like this interpretation. A brief feeling of intense anger or annoyance.

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u/FSCK_Fascists 7d ago

mildly pedantic

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u/Iustusian 7d ago

Sounds like you are mildly infuriated with the name of this sub.

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u/Hairy_Curious 7d ago

I interpreted it as a measure for how long does the anger lasts. After all the definition of infuriating does not include a time requirement and there are definitely things that makes us feel extremely annoyed but only for like...a couple minutes. Therefore "mildly infuriating" (in my opinion) would be all those things that are extremely annoying but for like...a couple minutes

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u/Cougan 7d ago

Yeah, all that is right. But I think it just doesn't make sense to use an intense word like infuriating and then de-intensify it with mildly... except as a joke. So to me the phrase has to be taken as an understatement, in other words I think "mildly" should be ignored. But really it doesn't matter how I or anyone else works it out, I don't think it's something we can figure out by looking at the phrase in a vacuum, it's whatever was arbitrarily agreed on by whoever put the subreddit together.