so true

Also: Insulting to modern IF authors, as many games are written in Inform, the successor to ZIL that runs in similar Z-Machines as original Infocom games. The same TRS-80 you played Zork on 45 years ago could play a modern game using an interpreter! There’s no reason to bring ~the cloud~ into this!

I really try not to be like this but “MS has graciously ‘preserved’ one of the most documented games of all time that was released 46 years ago, made freeware 28 years ago, and are using it to promote data centers, all for a game that could run on most abacuses” is causing me psychic damage

this site compiled a list of all the stick/controller/parts they're referencing gameboku.com/archives/251... 🇯🇵when I say "needlessly specific" I mean they're referencing stuff like "that one stick built into a hotpot" or "that weird mouth controller Tokido's been screwing around with on stream"

STRAFTAT should be the biggest game in the world. It is a casual party shooter about figuring out The Bit in each map, with an insanely high competitive movement shooter skill ceiling. It is a free game where paid map DLC gives your character new kinds of cigarettes. Its soundtrack is All Bangers.

Aged in a digital locker.