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[Putnam]

Raw body size specifically, not in-game volume.

[GavJ]

By "proportional to creature size", btw, he means the total blood volume of a creature is literally its body size in centiliters.

nitpick: 1 cm^3 (which is what the size value is supposed to be, at least according to the wiki, and it lines up well with real world animals) = 1 milliliter, not centiliter

Centiliters would mean they have 10x more volume of blood than they have volume of everything.

Nope. A creature with BODY_SIZE:70000 will have, on average, 7000 blood, so the body size in centiliters.

I'm not sure I follow you. 70,000 cm^3 = 70,000 ml = 7,000 cl
I don't see a disagreement here. It is perfectly consistent for body size in your example to be in ml (same as cm^3 for any tissues with water density) and blood amount to be in cl, since blood amount is 10x smaller, just like 1cl = 10ml




(All of this is largely guessing anyway, though, since obviously, a creature can't be both 100% blood and also have other tissues at the same time. And since the only way we can judge units is by lining up with reality, there become two different interpretations of reality - one that uses actual body volumes on Earth as a reference point, and one that uses actual blood volumes as a reference point. The two will disagree)

[Putnam]

What I'm saying is that the blood number abstraction is exactly body size in centiliters. Not saying that the amount of blood is the body size in centiliters, but that the blood number is equal to that.

[GavJ]

oh ok gotcha