@ami_angelwings I'm having troubles remembering a specific example of my favorite fandom/arguments, but one thing I truly love is getting into deep speculation about things.

Take, for example, the game Stray. There's... a lot of background to that game that isn't immediately obvious. I have a very specific theory about what happened to all the humans (I don't know if it counts as a spoiler or not, so I won't say it in this post) and how things got the way they are. Plus there's some easily missable stuff like exactly how the Zurks came about. If all you do is the minimum quest-wise and then spend the rest of the time knocking flower pots down you'll totally miss stuff like that. And it makes for some really fun discussions.

This one isn't my favorite though. Just one of many.

@ami_angelwings I think the main thing I like to speculate about is what happened to the humans. Of course, the fact is the Zurk ultimately killed everyone (presumably while still just a really prevalent bacteria. You could pretty much just blowtorch them out at the end there.)

But consider our little "AI" assistant who was so obviously once a human.

Suppose actually that's what all the robots actually are and how they got that way. Suppose that's why they all have weird human habits that the game sort of lets us believe they merely developed from observation. There was obviously a transfer process to get consciousness into the helper we see from the beginning and it was obviously incomplete.

You see strange machines around here and there too...