My perspective on it was, "Whatever." I did read the "rules" the first time I saw them scroll past my bored eyes, but I knew I wouldn't need or want them, because either (1) I was going to cum and enjoy it a damn lot, and then later go right back to using whichever video I wanted, or (2) I wasn't going to cum, but I would still enjoy it a damn lot, and then later go right back to using whichever video I wanted.
For me, the likelihood of "inability" (in other words, the likelihood of orgasm while playing a Cock Hero and whacking by the rules) isn't really proportionate to anything about the rules and perks. Instead, it's about context.
I'll cum irresistibly if I "let" myself, and if enough of the following conditions are met: if I've spent a lot of effort recently, in trying to find a niche of time in which I could go private and whack; if I've delayed orgasm significantly for some reason or other; if I've taken a few men's performance stimulants (I like the over-the-counter stuff available at Rite Aid pharmacy, in a little red bottle that looks like a 5-Hour Energy vial) lately; if I've taken guarana, horny goat weed, L-argnine, etc., regularly in the last week; if the CH video creator and I turn out to have similar tastes in women and / or style of portrayal of women (for example, the Gracie Glam Porn Star CH just really didn't do it for me, all I could notice was A. how overweight and un-toned and poorly exercised she was and B. how bad her facial skin is, zits and pock-marks galore; whereas, that scene in Nations #1 that involves showing us images and sounds of that one chick by the pool getting her pussy eaten by a series of different girls? man, that made me pop about six times, until eventually I said to myself that I was going to have to get past that scene, so I whacked off to completion, and THEN did the CH video).
I won't cum if I decide not to. I have another thread, which details some techniques. There's pulling on the balls, there's reverse-stroking to squeeze the blood out of the schlong, there's deep-breathing techniques, there's ...
So, basically, the perks are unnecessary and even puerile, to me. "Dude, he CONTROLLED ME into orgasm with his video, I HAD NO CHOICE" is just a stupid point of view, and to me it sounds like it is right up there with how I felt about why I play Dungeons and Dragons when I was a pre-adolescent. (As opposed to, how I feel about why I play Dungeons and Dragons now that I'm a middle-aged adult ... heh, nothing against Dungeons and Dragons ... heh ...)
But I realize that other folks like them and use them. There's nothing that I disapprove of, in that! I think it's great that different people can "play" the CH game in different manners. But I think that any rules that are overt and are somehow abstracted and distant from the involvement in the present-time moment of the game (you are 'required' to keep track, over there on a note-pad) aren't going to work very well.
I think better rules would be ones which just sneak up on the player. Just an example: have the beat change, from slow to fast, in a surprisingly complicated manner. The player will be busy MATCHING the beat, so he won't notice that what has just happened is, that in addition to matching, the OTHER challenge is that the beat has also sped up and therefore is probably over-stimulating him. You've hidden one challenge underneath another. The "back door" challenge will git ya, because the "front door" challenge keeps you distracted and mentally busy. That's just an example, of course, and it might not work for everyone, so a different set of things is really necessary to make CH "rules" effective against all potential competitors. I was very impressed with a few of the vids which intersperse little flash-moments of chicks with cum-faces. The "main" scenery is a pretty girl doing semi-soft-core stuff; but suddenly a half a moment of a hardcore cum-covered pair of lips flashes on the screen, I'm demanded to whack super-fast, then it all goes right back to the "main" episode of semi-soft-core posing. Man THAT was difficult to resist, because it was getting me stimulated via the "back door" mentally, of something that got the stimulation in without me being aware that it was going to over-stimulate me. (And by the way, obviously, I don't mean "back door" as "anus," at least not on this occasion.)
That's what the beats do -- they require enough focus on one act, that they prevent self-distraction, and require a certain behavior. It's not merely that you're required to whack really fast, that is the irresistible stimulation. It's that you're required to whack NOW without thinking about it, so the player develops an instant response, through which the thump of the whack-meter leads directly to the motion on the dick, without any thought involved. If you were instead told, verbally, "Now stroke to the musical beat at exactly 60 bpm," you'd be intellectualizing it, and it wouldn't work as well. Instead, the stroke-meter SHOWS you what to do, and you eventually internalize and sublimate any conscious thinking about what it's showing you. It becomes subconscious. THEN it can really control you.
