我到底是玩游戏还是考试啊 纯粹就是折磨玩家啊
“(and you're asking me to recite poems?) (Am I playing a game or going to an exam?) (This is torturing the gamers.)”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“(Souls-like games are hard enough) (and you're asking me to recite poems?)”
我 到底是 玩游戏 还是 考试啊 纯粹 就是 折磨 玩家啊
“(and you're asking me to recite poems?) (Am I playing a game or going to an exam?) (This is torturing the gamers.)”
“(Those who have yet to play this game, beware.)”
“This game is ridiculously difficult and not fun at all; I can't stand it.”
In Chinese gaming communities, players often humorously bond over the excessive difficulty of 'soulslike' games by framing entertainment as self-inflicted academic torture.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
in the end, is it A or B?
Used in rhetorical or bewildered questions to express exasperation at an absurd or conflicting situation.
purely; simply nothing but
A strong colloquial phrase used to emphasize an absolute or extreme assessment of a situation.
to torment; to torture
Commonly used in spoken Chinese to hyperbolically describe extremely exhausting or frustrating experiences.
Heightens emotional intensity and marks the rhetorical question as an emphatic complaint.