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…They’re subtle. It’s more like a Thomas Pynchon kind of world. You’ll see them as you start to explore more of how these rules actually interact and whatnot. I think that’s an interesting idea. Again, a small part of why I love video games is because of how there’s so much fun, symbolic interaction between you and the game that it maps so well onto the way that we interact with the world around us. I think, in addition to being a wonderful, and, in some ways, the most diverse and effective artistic medium right now — which I have to ask you about because that’s part of why we’re here. You said something in response to Jeff. Everyone sent me the clip. Jeff was saying — what was the question — it was, “Do you think video games can be the predominant artistic force of the 21st century in the same way the cinema was for the 20th century?” You were like, “No, I don’t think so.” But you had a lot of qualifiers, et cetera, et cetera. So, I do want to get into that a little bit because I thought your answer to that was really fascinating, and you said a couple of different points in there that I wanted to unpack. So, pin in that. I would love to come back to that if it is not already going to come up. It might be AI-generated video in the next century. When you watch those now, do they drive you crazy because they’re so full of mistakes? Or do you just sit back and chill?…

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