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Your purity score
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The Gamer's Purity Test
The gamer edition: 50 questions about rage quits, midnight raids, in-game purchases, and everything else that happens when the controller doesn't leave your hands. No adult content, just pure gaming chaos.
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Somewhere Between Rage-Quit And Soulmate
The standard purity test wasn't written for anyone who's ever named their graphics card. This one runs fifty boxes deep on broken controllers, 3 a.m. queue nights, and the exact sound a call makes when somebody forgets to mute.
Every player lives somewhere between two extremes — the cracked headset and the cold coffee on one side, the sleeping cat and the trophy shelf on the other. Nobody's purely one or the other. Tick what's true and watch which side fills up first.
You don't need a streaming setup to score high. Some of the biggest numbers on this list belong to people who never touched a triple-monitor rig — they just put in the hours on whatever they had.
The Rage Side
- Cracked a controller, or came close
- Rage-quit mid-ranked and blamed the ping
- Lost sleep arguing with a stranger in voice chat
- Threw the mouse — gently, into a pillow, but still
The Loved Side
- The trophy you never took off the shelf
- The cat that's claimed your headset stand
- A friend group that only exists because of one server
- A soundtrack you still hum without meaning to
> after_you_reveal
The Setup Escalates, So Does The Score
No official scale here either — just the honest read.
0–12
You play sometimes. Controller's in the drawer, not on the desk. Most of what you checked is stuff everyone's played, not the boxes that ask something of you.
13–28
You've got a routine. A regular squad, a game you could describe in more detail than anyone asked for, and at least one purchase you didn't mention to anybody.
29–40
The setup has opinions now. A second monitor showed up at some point without a clear decision being made. You know what patch notes are and you read them.
41–50
There's a ring light in here somewhere. You've optimized something that didn't need optimizing, and you'd defend that choice with your whole chest.
Two people can land on the same number and mean completely different things by it — one's counting a decade of casual couch co-op, the other's counting eight months of one competitive season. Same test, different mileage.
> solo_vs_squad
Runs Best With A Second Controller
Some of this test is solitary by design — the settings menu nobody else needs to see, the save file that's just yours. But plenty of it only makes sense with other people in the room: the couch that's technically built for two, the pizza box nobody's claiming, the cat that's already picked a side.
Send the link to whoever's in your server. Compare numbers. Argue about which boxes should've counted double.
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