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Moon (moon@shitposter.club)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Feb-2023 22:47:08 JST Moon
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> In 2013, Scott Adams released the Bible-based The Inheritance

are you sure about that

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- RC2014 (rc2014@oldbytes.space)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Feb-2023 22:47:17 JST RC2014
  
  If anybody is wondering if it is morally acceptable to play Scott Adams adventure games following the recent bout of newspapers dropping Dilbert cartoons.
  Yes. Yes it is perfectly ok.
  The Scott Adams that's famous for writing Adventure and many other classic computer games is not the racist intolerant arsehole that wrote Dilbert. They're two very different people.
  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Adams_(game_designer)
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  1. Scott Adams (game designer)
    
    Scott Adams (born July 10, 1952) is an American entrepreneur, computer programmer, and video game designer. He co-founded, with ex-wife Alexis, Adventure International in 1979. The company developed and published video games for home computers. The cornerstone products of Adventure International in its early years were the Adventure series of text adventures written by Adams. Adventure International Born in Miami, Florida, Adams had access to an advanced 16-bit computer at home, built by his brother Richard Adams, that gave him a jump on game programming in his leisure time. Adams wrote a graphical action game similar to Spacewar! on this system in 1975. Scott Adams was the first person known to create an adventure-style game for personal computers, in 1978 on a 16 KB Radio Shack TRS-80 Model I, written in BASIC. Colossal Cave was written two years earlier by Will Crowther, but on a mainframe computer (the PDP-10). These early text adventures recognize two-word commands of the form VERB NOUN. The parser only scans the first three letters of each command...

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