me: "Not every mechanic in the game needs a diegetic purpose. I don't need to come up with a ludonarrative explanation for why players get a different procedurally-generated selection of items and upgrades of wildly varying quality each time."
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@AlexandraErin i love everything about this except how horrifyingly plausible it is
@AlexandraErin as grim a picture as it paints i love the general vibe of "Elon Musk is remembered only as the namesake of a disaster area encompassing what used to be the planets Earth and Mars, with the implication he personally had a hand in its creation"
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I'm just happy I came up with an organic way to work in Earth and Mars being referred to as "the Elonian Wastes", as the entire game takes place in the outer regions of the galactic rim and weird hyperspace dimensions.