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I spend an unnecessary amount of time thinking about the fall damage in Spelunker
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not Spelunky, Spelunker
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this game
this game
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if the Spelunker there steps forwards without catching the lift
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and falls those, like, 16 pixels
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they will die
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that's a fatal drop
izzy.vrm
the fall damage in spelunker occupies a permanent part of my brain because
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it's almost as bad as dark souls 2
izzy.vrm
it's featured prominently in the opening scroll of game center cx
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well, let's think about this
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there's a whole lift system for that drop
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that suggests it's actually a pretty long drop
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which means
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for scale purposes
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the Spelunker is a giant
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which would make relatively short falls even MORE dangerous
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I mean like, if you think about it,
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that fall is the same height if not a little more than the Spelunker(?) is
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most real people do not regularly take falls of ~6 feet onto rock
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especially while also weighed down with mining gear
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I think if I fell six feet I would not die
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I would,
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I'd hurt my knees
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the thing about the original plurk, though, in Spelunker in particular
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You do not take fall damage from hitting the ground from too great a height
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after you fall a certain number of pixels, you die, in the air
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it is, in fact, the fall that kills you and not the sudden stop at the end
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If you hurt your knees in the depths
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you might as WELL be dead
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maybe it's an emotional death
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having fallen off a cliff, the spelunker laments that they've failed as a spelunker
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the game knows they will never survive the depths without self confidence
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just a reminder this exists 
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for a given value of exists