Before smart-phones, my Dad used to work in a building next to an adult shop. From his desk he would see every customer who walked in.
He realized that there were people who would visit multiple times throughout the week, and leave without buying anything, sometimes with their workmates.
One day he decided to go in and check it out. The place had a "public viewing room". Basically a mini-cinema in a dark room.
People were coming in during their lunch breaks to bust a nut, then go back to work.
IQ tests are interesting, because they're mainly a test of pattern recognition.
However, knowing how the patterns are formed, can easily net you +10 points on an IQ test.
It's a shit way to determine "intelligence".
Some people might score highly, but are socially inept and unmotivated, meaning they have a lot of raw power, without having the mental capability to channel it productively, which is pretty fucking stupid.
Then you get people like Musk and Trump, who are both highly motivated people, despite being dumb as rocks. Yet, our geniuses can't figure out how to mitigate their stupidity.
Debating what intelligence is, is such a circle-jerk.
The term is so broad, that it encompasses aspects like motivation, memory retention capacity, memory recall rates, differentiates between verbal, spacial and emotional intelligence, and occasionally veers into scientific racism.
It's a fucking shit show. The comment sections of posts about intelligence are generally toxic because people end up talking past each other.
If I have cleared an area, I want to have it reflected in an overview screen.
If I'm missing an item, I want to know which enemy drops it, where I can find it, or how I can craft it.
If I need to pull out my phone to check a wiki, then the game has failed me.
There's something to be said for exploration games, and in those cases, the details should be obscured until the player has cleared 90% of the area, or gotten past the boss (or something like this).
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