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Triple-Q @triple-q.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

The difference between picking up a rock in a game with emergent gameplay and picking up a rock in a Rockstar game

- in spelunky, you can throw rocks to hit stuff. you can also set off an explosive to ricochet it, or use the rock to set off traps, or dislodge or trigger something else
etc etc
- the rock has multiple uses

- If I ain't got a weapon

- in grand theft auto (or any rockstar game) the game would:
- tell you to pick up the rock as an objective (mark it on your map)
- tell you to throw it at an enemy to kill him (he is right in front of you)
- if you miss, you fail the mission
- if you take too long to pick up the rock, you fail the mission
- if you use any other method to kill the enemy, you fail the mission

- also, that is the only place where youll get to use a rock and you can never use it anywhere else because the programmers never considered it

- if you tried to get a different rock, it's not interactible

nyx ✨ @nyxdotlumen.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

and then there’s rust 💀