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Pascal's Thematic Game

I find it very hard to believe that he didn't at least have in mind some of the concepts that you're talking about. Especially since some of these philosophers are directly referenced as characters. There's no way that's, oh, that was just an accident. But I can respect it, though, because he's crafting a world, right, while trying to assert that maybe there is no crafter of the world. That's a hard thing to do. The way he's doing it is like a decent way to do it. He doesn't want to distract from the game by being that sort of auteur developer who is the face of the franchise. And which is clearly what

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