Comment by 🍀 gritty
Re: "To me, NetHack and Gemini have a similar aesthetic. Not so…"
as a matter of fact, I DO have a tilde.club account.
Feb 03 · 3 months ago
4 Later Comments ↓
@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...