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>Imagine if it included more realistic elements like economics and persistent characters. You could decide you have a vendetta against Bob and steal his cheese every time he goes out shopping for groceries. Heck, you could become the cheese kingpin and monopolize access to cheese. Although a more thematic approach would probably have to do with drugs, which doesn't seem like too far of a bridge to jump considering the game genre.

The fun thing about playing video games is how easy it is to imagine yourself a video game designer who could easily criticize any other game's design and implementation while easily designing and implementing an even more fun more beautiful easier to play game that everyone would want to easily play so much they would easily spend more than enough money on it to easily pay you to quickly and easily implement on time and on budget.



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