I watched most of a video yesterday complaining about issues in the re-release of 999 and it was overall mostly good and I agree with the criticism, but there was a pretty constant thing the essayist and the streamers shown in the video responded and said that is fascinating to me
I guess the other thing that got me is the idea that if text shows up in a vn dialogue box it's being said aloud, which even if it's voice acted may be not be true
I was just sometimes thinking "yeah it would be bizarre if they said this aloud, but then maybe you should just assume it's not diegetic and there for your benefit as a reader?"
I spent a lot of my reading life massaging books in my mind to have more black people or more furries... It's not a hard feat and it can make it more enjoyable to accept that what you are being shown or told isn't what's literally happening/happened.
I don't know; it's like how much the pandemic disproves the common complaint that people would have about like zombie viruses that no one would be "dumb enough" to ignore the risk
a paucity of theory of mind that directly excludes real people because it's been trained on characters
