stackyFACTSNot everything in a digital landscape is fully fleshed out. Sprites are flat, two-dimensional images forced to awkwardly exist inside three-dimensional spaces. To maintain the illusion of depth, the environment often aggressively rotates these flat images to always face you, hiding the fact that they have no back.
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