On the one hand, yeah, Mario 64 is … kind of hauntingly sparse in places.

It is kind of especially weird that when you get dropped into the world, after the very sonically and visually engaging start screen and menus… you get dropped outside of the castle, which has no soundtrack, beyond like occasional birds chirping.

Then you go into the castle, uplifting music, but… its empty. Echoey. Camera angles / Sight lines emphasize empty space… its meant to maximize your ability to to be acrobatic, but… if you just walk, slowly… very large empty space, full of huge rooms that seemingly only exist to have huge paintings in them.

Yeah, thats all weird.

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On the other hand…

What’s wrong with Zoomers? Alphas?

Oh, constant over stimulation and external judgement.

The absence of those things thus feels like a graveyard, where… you suspect those things somehow are there, they’re just hiding… because normally, those things always are there.

Simplicity, minimalism and a lack of obvious direction and feedback thus = absence… a suspicious, meancing lack of engagement.

It leaves you alone.

With your own thoughts.

Your own unguided, undirected thoughts.

You could say the brainrotted are haunted by their own conditioned expectations.