using those long range weapons and bypassing the danger of needing to go into the fray to collect things, and the demerits of it making it more difficult to collect items IS cheating yes you didn't beat the game

we are winner

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+rep funny man that used to be my boss before the entire ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ group disbanded basically

No tacens anymore? NICE

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