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4: Randomness, What Happens Without Sleep, and Stardew Valley

Let's Learn Everything!

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What's Up With the Ludo Narrative Disonents?

There's a phenomena in, in, in sort of game design called Ludo Narrative Disonents. This is where the mechanics and the story don't align. And so you have this misalignment with like people being like, Yeah, you have to give the player all this agency. But then when you think about what that implies about the character that they are like, this person that literally defies death and has superpowers basically,. Like that sometimes it doesn't line up. It doesn't, it's strange when you, yeah. That kind of, that's kind of the end of my thing.

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