Die Martin Die

Ministry Department of Truth

I’ve been a computer nerd since I was like 10. When I was younger (damn, am I that old already?), I used to install PC games for friends (including ahem cracks). I always did it for free just, well, because they were friends, and because it took no longer than 10 minutes in the worst case. Their parents always threw a few bucks my way anyway, which I always tried to refuse, but ended up taking because of their insistence.

I also started contributing to open source from a relatively young age (I think I was maybe 20), not with the intention to make a career out of that, but because I found it a fun activity, and liked my contributions helping people.

In both cases, my family was all over me for not making a career from that. Like, my brother in Christ, I don’t need to be fucking working 24/7 from birth to death. People are allowed to do things just for fucking fun.

+1 for Luanti and Simon Tatham’s Puzzles.

I used to use Lemuroid too, but now prefer RetroArch. Both use the same libretro “cores” (plugins/emulators/programs). RA has many more features, but is mainly gamepad oriented (though its default UI is quite usable via touchscreen). Lemuroid has less features but it’s easy to setup.

Shattered Pixel Dungeon is also quite nice if you like roguelikes.

Vector Pinball is also cool.