<p>It is May and outside the sky is so dark that if someone told me that Shenron was being summoned I might believe them. To me at least I find it comforting, because when it&#8217;s too sunny out I don&#8217;t want to work on anything. I remember thinking this exact thought about a year ago when I began working on <a href="http://www.indiedb.com/games/first-paradise">First Paradise</a>, an ASCII game. Since then I now like to consider myself an amatuer astrologist or at least better at programming than I was when I started this whole fiasco, and I&#8217;m still not done.</p>
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<p>Consider it madness, but staring at static keyboard characters for extreme periods of time stimulates my imagination in ways that only my fellow brethren (&; sister..en?) can understand. I wrote <a href="http://www.explosion.com/11477/do-muds-and-ascii-graphics-provoke-insanity/">an article</a> awhile back about how ASCII graphics might provoke insanity. My stance was neutral then but now I know better.</p>
<p><em>So straight off the top, give me an &#8216;@&#8217; symbol, place the letter &#8216;D&#8217; next to that sucker and I got: </em>&#8220;The beast stood tall and imposing, it&#8217;s teeth like sharp yellow knives against gums dark as night. My sword grew heavy, threatening to abandon my grip as only a heart made of cold steel could. Perspiration dotted my forehead, I began to dread what came next for I knew now that I had grossly underestimated this capital letter &#8216;D&#8217;.&#8221;</p>
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<p>I always knew I wasn&#8217;t alone, multi-user dungeons were after all multiplayer games. If you&#8217;ve played Dwarf Fortress then you know how deep the rabbit hole goes, and how intense and vibrant that community is. Hell, I could get lost in Simutronics&#8217; Elanthia for days. I can be run down by zombies for knocking over a teapot in Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead. I can be anywhere and be anything. Sometimes I can die and do it all again and if I&#8217;m lucky the game world continues on without me if I don&#8217;t.</p>
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<p>I think it&#8217;s funny that Einstein&#8217;s definition of insanity is &#8220;doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Dude, that sounds like a really good roguelike, matter of fact, <a href="http://www.textmodegames.com/download/insanity.html">it exists</a>! Do i think we&#8217;re all nuts? No. We&#8217;re just a special breed who&#8217;s definition of insanity means almost always getting different results.</p>

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