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Straighten, a setting for the people who need it
Every card in Caravita sits a little crooked, the way real cards do. One switch squares them all. It started as a joke; it stayed because it was right.
If you look closely at a table in Caravita, no card is quite straight. Each one sits a degree or two off, the way cards do when a person has put them down. It is one of the things that makes the game feel like a table and not a spreadsheet.
Some people cannot bear it. I know, because I am related to a few of them. So there is a setting called Straighten, and with it on, every card sits square, every pile lines up, and the table looks like it was set by someone with a ruler.
I will admit how it started. The first version of Straighten was a prank. The slider that controlled it did not quite line up with its own numbers, it stopped a little short of the end, and the label above it said 100% anyway. For the people it was aimed at, that would have been a small daily torment. I laughed about it for a day, and then I thought about my Grandma squinting at a slider that would not go all the way, and it stopped being funny. The prank went; the setting stayed, properly, exactly as it says.
So if tilted cards bother you, or the person you are buying this for, it is in Settings, under Accessibility, and it is honest now. The rest of us will keep the cards a little crooked, the way they fall.