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reminder that Archipelago exists and is absolutely incredible:

https://archipelago.gg/

it lets you create "multiplayer games" where you and your friend play two completely different singleplayer games and find items for each other in your games

for example I could be playing Doom '93 and instead of getting the super-shotgun and a soulsphere, I might find the PokeFlute and some rare candies for my friend playing Pokemon

and then they might be exploring a cave and find the BFG and the red key for E1M4

I can't believe that something like this can exist. and there are a surprising number of supported games too

there are three kinds of programming tutorials:

• "look man we both know you don't wanna learn this shit so just install 30 GB of random frameworks and here's the code to copy-paste if you wanna make a basic game and feel like you accomplished something. I'm not gonna explain how any of this works because nobody cares as long as your little guy jumps when you press spacebar"
• "an endofunctor is a type of monoid which is a subcategory of monad that is variadic over the set of all impure lambdas - therefore all possible expressions in this language can be modeled after- wait where are you going?"
• "this is called a variable! a variable is a little friend that can hold onto something called a value! variables love grabbing values and they can even carry them into functions! say hi, variable!"

congratulations to Boba Fett - the galaxy's first visor drone to come out as nega-trans

someone on Fedi is going to vibe with this really hard