chaceys exists and advertises a thirty thousand calorie sandwich. the body system means food affects your weight. you can interact with the fridge in the safehouse
so food is clearly in there somewhere but nobody has said whether eating is a thing you do for health, for weight, for both, or just because there is a restaurant and it would be strange if you could not
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Nothing states whether eating is a system with mechanical effects. What is stated is that food affects weight and that the body changes over time.
RDR2 tied eating to a core system and a lot of people found it tedious. Tying it to appearance rather than to health is the smarter version.
The body changing over time only works if eating is continuous rather than a health top up, so the system has to be tracked somehow.
appearance rather than health is such a better design. nobody wants a hunger bar. everybody wants their guy to look different in january than he did in november
Food affecting weight implies eating is tracked rather than instantaneous, which is closer to San Andreas than to anything since.
The fridge, the TV and the food all point the same way. The safehouse is where the body system is expressed rather than where you save.
a thirty thousand calorie sandwich has to do something or why would they put the number in the advert
Coming to this late, the fridge in the safehouse is the tell. You do not model a fridge you can open for a game where food is a health pickup.