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How game audio gives you time to dodge

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Your visual reflexes are garbage, so the developers threw you an auditory life vest. Before a devastating swing connects, a specific metallic shing or grunt plays, granting your sluggish brain exactly enough time to hit the dodge button and pretend you actually have good reaction times.

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