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Put NetHack on my community app and this 38-year-old game keeps outsmarting me
I added NetHack to my community app a while back, unmodified upstream binary running on a shared box. I thought I was adding "an old roguelike". I was not prepared. :D
It shipped multiplayer in the 80s and nobody calls it that. Bones files. Someone dies on lvl 12, their ghost and their cursed loot get written to disk, and another player on the same machine walks into that grave later. People are haunting each other with zero configuration.
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