Arantor
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So I hang out on a very tech-savvy forum, it's pretty hardcore and not for the faint of heart. The Daily WTF is a blog about stupidity in IT, and it has a forum full of people as you might expect that enjoy that sort of thing - poking fun at other stupidities in IT while trying not to make more of our own.
But one of the things that happened is a couple of the regulars wrote bots to play games in the forum.
For example https://what.thedailywtf.com/topic/26933/tdwtf-plays-minesweeper/ - it's a topic where a bot lets you play Minesweeper. The bot posts the current state of the board, you reply to say 'reveal m10' and it shows you the outcome.
There's been others, e.g. a bot for posting old crosswords from the NYT, or playing old 1980s text adventures from Infocom. I'm just sad I don't see more of these things.
But one of the things that happened is a couple of the regulars wrote bots to play games in the forum.
For example https://what.thedailywtf.com/topic/26933/tdwtf-plays-minesweeper/ - it's a topic where a bot lets you play Minesweeper. The bot posts the current state of the board, you reply to say 'reveal m10' and it shows you the outcome.
There's been others, e.g. a bot for posting old crosswords from the NYT, or playing old 1980s text adventures from Infocom. I'm just sad I don't see more of these things.