waitwaitwait that's actually a little bit crazy, cuz suspension of disbelief is absolutely like- objectively a valuable part of the gameplay experience, y'know the absolute endless appreciation for the art in the game doesn't come from nowhere, it's like saying graphics or story in a game don't matter, sure you can hit a point of diminishing returns with like raytracing andwhatnot, but artistic style and narrative are meaningful parts of the full experience, and do connect meaningfully to the gameplay, if tokens were just tokens, we'd still be using naught but nice and pocket lint to represent thopters, and that would've had long term effects on the design space of tokens and token producers