This may shock you, but there’s a lot of us. It’s not the same people doing both.

Okay, thanks, the video made it look very pokémish

I don’t know a lot about Fire Emblem, but… is it just human pokémon?

Sounds like it’s lawful surveillance.

Lawful, but still hostile to their customers.

yes, but: why would I want to?

Yeah, I’d only played the SNES version.

mmmm, that’s the good stuff

Well, yeah. But there’s also plenty of times where you can’t capitalize on good luck without a fair but of hard work. Generally, to succeed, a combination of luck, work, and help will all play into that success.

Dwarf Fortress, since 2008

ASCII no questions, I’ll tell you no lies

Did anyone else always name the characters after their “real” names: Nadia for the princess, Glenn for the frog, Janus for the Wizard, and R-66Y for the robot?

I also named the inventor “Tara” after her father.

ZZT is officially freeware these days, too! The last original floppy was purchased about five years ago, and afterwards Sweeney declared the program officially free to use, though sadly not open-source. I believe it has been successfully decompiled for over a decade, though.

People are still making games using it! When I get a bit more free time I want to polish up and republish the ones I made.

There’s a whole community around self-made games using the editor that came with it, including a website full of games and a forum. A few years back one of us published a book about the community (and how we all turned out trans).

ZZT, the game that launched Epic. Say, there’s gotta be a ZZT community somewhere on lemmy, right?

just wait 'til you see what they did with “el lagarto”

“erotica”

Yeah that’s 100% porn.

a pill that makes your PP go up.

OP did say he was getting older, there’s no shame in needing one of these

They’ve been very openly talking about this for the last decade, it’s not even sneaky. Technocracy and meritocracy and government-as-a-business have all been buzzwords and all been outed as bad ideas by the experts, but the buzz keeps growing among the money crowd.

I will confess that I personally thought they were too stupid and rivalrous to pull it off.

well, I know what I’m eating for breakfast tomorrow