If you were in a space game flying towards a planet in your ship. You would see the round planet in the distance. As you got closer the planet would fill your perspective. As you decent to the ground everything would be flat. Even though the world you went to initially was round like a ball for the "aesthetic".

In truth if you were asked a question whether you thought the planet in the game was flat or round. You would say it is just graphics and pixels. It doesn't matter so much the shape or the physics of the code. When you are on the planet it is flat all around. Just because there is another perspective of it being round doesn't mean it can't be both flat and round at the same time!

We live in a machine masked as this REAL REALITY LOOKALIKE CONTEST.