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I also occasionally enjoy cheating in video games, but it's rarely about the game itself at that point anymore. I've noticed it's not really about avoiding tedious or unpleasant parts of the game for me. I just think it's funny to have tutorial enemies yielding astronomical amounts of XP and gold or to have random Great People born in my cities every single turn. No kill like overkill.

It's also educational. Creating overpowered joke Civ4 mods and reading disassemblies of NES games to adjust numbers in an emulator's debugger make for fun semi-practical programming puzzles. Honestly, I think I enjoy the process of cheating more than the result.

Try it out sometime! Load up some old game in gdb and start messing with the numbers. It can be fun.