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I'm not quite on Ross's autism level (or rather my autism is more focused on mechanics if anything) but I can still immerse myself by learning to appreciate the actual human work that goes into environmental detail
It's actually why I don't care for modern games that are so high fidelity, everything is just realistic slop and all the work is in details that are literally impossible to discern naturally when playing the game
in older games you can actually see individual animated or visual effects in the environment and visualize the human being who thought about that effect and put the time into implementing it and getting it right
playing a bunch of games with the same staff and actually paying attention if they're the same staff and how elements have been carried over or improved also can help increase your appreciation or enjoyment a lot

for example I'm personally interested in the new DK game solely because that internal Nintendo dev studio originally started with DK jungle beat, and then they went on to make future 3d mario games and seeing elements in stuff like the galaxy games lifted from jungle beat was really cool to me when I finally figured out why I was getting weird deja vu when I originally played it and now it's almost come full circle since they're doing DK again 20ish years later
I'm not autistic enough to read every single name in the credits with a fine toothed comb but the japanese seem pretty good at passing talent down to younger developers and giving them a chance to do their own thing too, which lines up with what I've read about the quality of working at Nintendo as a first party developer compared to basically every western studio which drops talented staff as soon as they find a brown person who takes a smaller paycheck

or you could just cheat and use weed, that makes you feel like a kid playing games again and you basically get immersed for free

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>>715030505
the only way i can see loop theory working is if susie somehow triggers it and it resets to the morning of ch1 with nobody having any memory of it happening
ralsei might remember key events relating to the prophecy but nothing more, which is why he knows but doesn't understand why

>AI thread dies like a beaten dog
>Immediately try to make a new one
Lole