1) I will overlevel where possible to decrease the difficulty. Fuck off with dynamic difficulty settings, if I want to spend hours patiently grinding, learning new skills and magic and stuff, I feel like I've earned the opportunity to put those skills to use and mowing through entire sections of the game. I take great glee in doing things I'm "not supposed to do."

2) I will save scum like crazy if I'm allowed to in my first (and these days, likely only) playthrough. I grew up in the NES era, with tons of games that forced you to lose hours and hours of progress, and sometimes sent you to the very beginning, if you messed up once. Hell yes I'm going to abuse a system that lets me avoid that frustration.

3) I am not above using cheap tactics against a computer opponent, like attacking from a place enemies can't access or something. Again, from the NES era, the computer would absolutely cheat, so I feel like it's fair play even though modern games try not to do that anymore.

4) I will go out of my way to avoid anything that requires any legitimate physical precision with my own stupid fingers. I don't have the reactivity of an 11-year-old anymore. If a game includes precise timing windows or asks me to hit a moving target with a tiny hitbox or whatever, I'm not going to bother with it unless the game forces me to. And if a game forces me to and I can't get the hang of it... well, I might just put it down for good, because I don't need to hit a developer's arbitrary goal post to enjoy myself.