Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-31371445-20170222233857/@comment-27136653-20180712194721

"We don't assign the HUD anything, we look at it the way it's presented to us in the game."

It is presented as a canon game interface. Which means, that the world is a simulation.

"Again, just because the world ACTS like a game, doesn't mean that it IS in and of itself a game."

Then it must be a real world, with no meta nonsense at play.

Again, it's either that, or that. Toby meant to achieve one of those when he made the standard gaming tropes canon. Either, no change, implying the HUD is being controlled by a player, or, with numerous changes that eliminate the possibility of the universe being a simulation.