Blanks
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- It's a great example of the "doing it for practical reasons" variant of this trope as well; the sheer complexity of what's being simulated in-game would be nigh-impossible to represent visually so the developer decided "less is more" and let the player's imagination fill in the blanks.
Source: Retraux / Video Games
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