Comment by 🍀 gritty
Re: "To me, NetHack and Gemini have a similar aesthetic. Not so…"
@lab6 just started digging through those PDFs. that's neat. how does one get the latest issue, unless @jsreed5 has a copy
Feb 02 · 3 months ago
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🎲 lab6 [OP/mod] · Feb 02 at 21:35:
@gritty There's a world-readable copy at /home/lab6/8 on tilde.club if you happen to be on there, though I'll most likely delete that soon as I'm trying to Kevin Bacon this one. If you grab it, and this thread remains findable, other people may come asking you for it :)
as a matter of fact, I DO have a tilde.club account.
@lab6 I've been reading since issue 0 and I really enjoy your writings. They remind me of articles one would find in PoC||GTFO, especially Critical CSV Theory.
In the spirit of sneakernets, I'd honestly be willing to send you a USB drive to copy issue 8 onto.
finally sat down and tried nethack. once I figured out that you need a .nethackrc file to use the numpad, it was a lot better. that, and the key binding cheat sheet. no walkthroughs.
@gritty Did you ever get a copy of issue 8? I don't have a tilde.club account, so I can't get it from there.
I did! I have all the issues I believe.
I can post when I'm back home
Original Post
To me, NetHack and Gemini have a similar aesthetic. Not so much visually — although both are text-based (sort of) — but in the power-to-weight ratio sense that I believe Solderpunk had in mind. You get a lot of excitement and atmosphere out of those ASCII characters, and the experience is… wholesome? Restrained? Sustainable? In a way that games driven by expensive energy-hungry GPUs are not. Anyway I just ascended an Archaeologist so I’m feeling good about it. I’d welcome a small web space for...