worth noting that hieroglyphics are absolutely fucking incomprehensible even if you know how to read them, and have fun etching that stuff into stone.
i wouldn’t call it illiterate in the same way as people are these days, it’s like calling most people these days “illiterate in assembly programming language”
i think it depends on how you go about it, like imagine if you just went back in time and bought the Fallout rights from bethesda and told obsidian entertainment that they can stop crunching and just keep working on the game as long as they want, and then when they feel finished they get a nice bonus (so they don’t feel like they have to keep drawing development out to keep the salary) and after that you just sponsor modders until your money runs out.
500 cans of red bull
that’s obviously not green, that’s uhhh, hmm…
seaweed! seaweed coloured, it’s a shade of black actually.