i imagine knowing anything about fighting, weapons or armor is very annoying in video games but knowing what gems look like is kind of a curse and a burden
my videogame pet peeve is when caves are lit by candles and/or torches — who refuels them all?
even if there's some folks who live there, why would they install a network of torches to keep the whole space lit 24/7, instead of just carrying individual ones around where needed?
and even granting that, how are they getting wax or kerosene or whatever to keep their lights lit, unless they're raising bees or pumping fossil fuels or harvesting whale oil or something... none of which are the sort of thing "some guy living in a cave" is likely doing on their own
We couldn't extract it from the ore in any efficient way. The more efficient process also requires electrolyzing aluminum oxide dissolved in molten salt, so...not exactly easy with pre-industrial processes. Needs a hell of a heat source.
I’ve seen bioluminescent glow worms in video game caves a few times now, which is also kinda funny because they’re localised entirely to NZ and Australia and the first time I saw them was in Assassin’s Creed Odyssey
Most first person shooters have the ejector port on the left side of a gun being held in the right hand because it's the more visually-interesting side of the weapon, but that means it's backwards and it throws hot brass into your face instead of away from it. Almost all of them do this.
I regularly scowl at games that make up fake mushrooms or blame things on spores that spores can't do. And mushrooms don't grow in caves! If plants don't grow there, there's nothing for them to eat! I shouldn't be finding mushrooms in caves, even cool looking glowing ones.
Cordyceps and other stuff that parasitizes arthropods relies (among other things) on them not having a dedicated circulatory and lymphatic system, that's why fungal infections in mammals look so different. TLoU gets a pass because clickers look cool and everyone is gay.
Because of some cultural differences mushrooms were legal in Japan, and the culture around them was similar to American psychedelic culture, so mushrooms making you big/small makes sense. A. muscaria are a common symbol of the subculture but rarely consumed because of side effects. So, accurate-ish.
(mushrooms filled this role because cannabis was highly criminalized and socially stigmatized similar to heroin or meth here in the 20th century, I don't 100% understand how that happened)
i imagine you also "love" the diablo/torchlight style gem upgrades -- clearly, better gems are made by smashing together 3 smaller gems into one that's bigger and nicer-looking, right?
