A while back someone recommended termbin to me on IRC for bash output. You should be able to pipe files directly to it.

Yes of course you are.

That's it lads! Rock and Stone!

This makes me so happy. I've been wanting to start a project to scrape fandom for a while so I can just have the info without accessing their godawful website. Any time I need info on something in a game I get hit with 5 results from fandom and some half-related articles in the search results.

That is way less common than you seem to think it is. Most online payments are fairly secure.

Just picked up Terraria and I'm loving it. I played Starbound a while back and read that it was more or less a spiritual successor to Terraria. Terraria has all the things I wanted to see from Starbound. The crafting system is so expansive. The difficulty is real though, I travelled through 2 biomes and hit something with large beetles and cave worms that chomped me to death. Zombies, floating eyes, and slimes were no problem. Same for the mobs in the desert, easy...but once I hit that 3rd biome I was in trouble, even with my metal armor.

I'm gonna agree that the first two are more or less forgotten/less discussed than the newer games.

Love the OG Ogre Battle. I played that game like crazy. I always appreciated how you could revisit locations for loot and battles.

I'm 33 and learned about PC gaming mostly from my grandfather when I was about 10. He had games like Jazz Jackrabbit, Jill of the Jungle, and other early era Sierra games. He also introduced me to Nethack for which I am eternally grateful! He continued playing games and using 3d rendering software until he lost his eyesight in his late 60s, and even then used a screen reader to use a computer for some other things. I think any cutoff age is going to be largely dependent on what social circles you're discussing and what area you're in.

Oof. Thanks for mentioning this.

I think those are honestly fair points, and I don't see it changing in the mainstream either. That doesn't mean that we can't approach the situation with respect and understand that we can describe games using different terminology, even if it's a little more difficult to do so.

Not really shocked to read the reaction in these comments.

People always get irate when someone points out that language they've been using for a long time is actually inherently problematic and perform all kinds of mental gymnastics to avoid admitting it.