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I was so depressed when they checked the refrigerator in GTA VI in the gameplay video on YouTube[0]. I know there was a glitch, but that's not why I got depressed. It was just too much for me. I don't know why, but it was soul-crushingly depressing. It made me feel so empty at such an existential level.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJbzMqJGH4k&t=438s

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I still get understand what you mean, the guy picks up a drink?

There is a point at which simulating reality just gets depressing - that is what I learned about myself from that.

Yes, there's something interesting about that. It seems like having a very vivid simulation of taking a beer out of the fridge should be exciting. But as soon as you had it, you would stop caring about it. It's just not fun. Nobody is setting out to make a fridge simulation video game. This level of simulation has very high diminishing returns.

Meh, that does nothing for me. Yes, the game seems quite detailed but that's neither especially impressive from a technical standpoint nor interesting from a gameplay perspective.

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