Even in successful games I consider realism umbrella, like the sequels of Horizon Zero Dawn and Death Stranding, a few of the things that matter far, far more than realism:

- intentionally making the design choices together to create a cohesive world & increase immersion

- colors & sounds & textures which give us a sense of emotion and connection to the story & characters

- choices which **are** unrealistic , making worlds different enough than ours, places we want to explore and escape to

But at this point EVERYTHING touches a computer at some point. When things start going wrong in a hospital or prison, or within the government, someone is going to die.

The risk introduced by each Silicon Valley idiot-factory compounds the more that those systems interact with one another.

So I genuinely wish I could just deep-freeze my devices until we can sort this nonsense out.