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** ...and Matrix shooting the player from behind. In a miniature golf game. |
** ...and Matrix shooting the player from behind. In a miniature golf game. |
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* Cartoons often have games cheating to exaggerate how hard they are. Especially if they're coin-guzzling arcade machines. |
* Cartoons often have games cheating to exaggerate how hard they are. Especially if they're coin-guzzling arcade machines. |
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** In [[The Grim Adventures of Billy |
** In [[The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy]] when Grim complains about a game his is playing cheating, the character actually calls him a wimp and shoots his score, resetting it to zero. |
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* Teal'c encounters this trope in a season 8 episode of [[Stargate SG-1]]. He says a computer simulation is too easy and the computer takes him at his word. Hijinks ensue. |
* Teal'c encounters this trope in a season 8 episode of [[Stargate SG-1]]. He says a computer simulation is too easy and the computer takes him at his word. Hijinks ensue. |
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** Notably the computer cheats so blatantly and repeatedly that in the end they resolve the situation by doing what any self-respecting gamer would do: [[Good Bad Bugs|exploit a bug in the program]] to cheese the system, sending Daniel in to help while granting him tactical precogniton. |
** Notably the computer cheats so blatantly and repeatedly that in the end they resolve the situation by doing what any self-respecting gamer would do: [[Good Bad Bugs|exploit a bug in the program]] to cheese the system, sending Daniel in to help while granting him tactical precogniton. |