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# LEGO My Survival
- URL: https://www.hashtagsurvival.net/lego-my-survival/
- Published: 2025-08-22T19:42:42.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-28T11:40:55.000Z
- Description: No Suffer, No Point.
- Author: Jordan
- Tags: Ponderings, Gaming

Like everyone, I have fond memories of LEGOs. *(Childhood memories playing with them, not adult ones where I step on one and die in writhing agony.)*

I quickly moved past them, though, because unless you're slamming shit around and making magical shit (look! this lump is a spaceship!) - you really do need to have some basic talent to make things that others can recognize.  
**Forget** coming up with my own ideas (see: previous article on [how I can only make cubes](https://www.hashtagsurvival.net/architecturally-offensive-functionally-perfect/)).  
**Becca builds all our Ikea furniture for good reason.**

I suck at building. There, I said it.

But, and my memory is never the most trustworthy so take this with a grain of salt, if I recall correctly, the most fun was had when you were fucking around and using the random little pieces to create things. Right? I don't know who was excited to hear "And I got you that Lego starship kit you wanted!" and then they handed you the ship, and it's already been built. **Womp womp.**

That thought actually popped up in a Discord chat the other day…

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/7b/90/7b901793-9ce9-42df-a98e-002e75d6de84/content/images/2026/09/cleanshot-2025-08-22-at-14-32-55-2x.png)

So, for argument's sake, I mean [five pillars](https://www.hashtagsurvival.net/the-5-pillars-of-survival/) games, because the ones that are just RPGs and action-adventures in scavenged clothing don't really need help, unless the help you mean is "WHAT R BEST WEAPON IN GAME" type help.

> If you watch someone play a true survival game, where shit isn't force-fed to you on a cracker, then watching them figure out everything (TO ME) is like having someone hand you a completed LEGO build.

I know this is an imperfect example, because you can probably throw that LEGO thing at the wall and it'll break into pieces, and you can just rebuild it *(maybe it's glued, but IDK if that would stop it from separating, I know shit about these things)*, but you can't unlearn things that you're taught from the video.  
  
You won't get the, "Amg I was mauled by the jaguar and I'm bleeding out and I need something, bandage?, IDK, I'm trying to figure it out and I'm looking and I..am dead."  
  
This is far different from "Oh, it's a tricky puzzle. *Up up down down left right left right B A start*" **There's no weight to it.** Content creators aren’t your Game Genie; they’re not there to hand you cheat codes. **Survival’s supposed to kick your ass** a little because that’s how you learn.

**Play or watch however you want - I support it.** But for me, survival games lose their teeth once you’ve already seen behind the curtain. I’d rather stumble, bleed out, and learn the hard way. *(Luckily, I’ve got a superb curse vocabulary to support this playstyle.)*