it's working, btw

woahhh i love this sm

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there was a (bad) time in my life i thought log-scale color looked "filmic" and "prestige" (and filmmakers in the 2010s loved low-contrast color, too), so...maybe something like that??? i can't think of any other explanation that isnt complete accident

and conversely, good writing can create the illusion of player agency. disco elysium is, on a technical level, a giant heavily guardrailed decision tree, and yet it feels like you can do anything purely due to both the expanse and depth of the writing

alternatively, ludonarrative jazz. because music.