• happybadger [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    10 months ago

    The brain filling in the details is exactly how to word it. I play Dwarf Fortress and it’s as vivid as the latest Ubisoft game because that’s the best simulation available. Whatever is missing from it, I add the fidelity.

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      10 months ago

      I always struggled to explain to people that after about hour 13 of a marathon df run i would more or less literally stop seeing the code and just see my dorfs running around.

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        10 months ago

        It’s the same dog sprite for every dog, but each of them looks like an actual individual dog once I read the descriptions. If the 2044 equivalent of Dwarf Fortress has dummy-ass graphics, my experience of perceiving it will be exactly the same.