Uploaded December 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
When gamers talk about "verisimilitude" and "realism" let's be clear: they aren't actually looking for something that truly feels "real," like it could function in real life. But that doesn't mean that their feelings are wrong or invalid. It's easy to give a smarmy "Great, you care about realism in a game where you wave your hands and shoot lightning and dragons fly and breathe fire," but those unsettling feelings don't come from nowhere, and it's reductive to invalidate them simply because they aren't what they appear to be. Join us as we explore the true root cause of these issues and teach you how to deftly navigate past them if you run into a fellow player who is having issues with the game jarring their sensibilities.
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When gamers talk about "verisimilitude" and "realism" let's be clear: they aren't actually looking for something that truly feels "real," like it could function in real life. But that doesn't mean that their feelings are wrong or invalid. It's easy to give a smarmy "Great, you care about realism in a game where you wave your hands and shoot lightning and dragons fly and breathe fire," but those unsettling feelings don't come from nowhere, and it's reductive to invalidate them simply because they aren't what they appear to be. Join us as we explore the true root cause of these issues and teach you how to deftly navigate past them if you run into a fellow player who is having issues with the game jarring their sensibilities.
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