Puzzles (sort of): a draft

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I abandoned "C" long ago because of pointers, hmm
pointers to pointers (Bah! humbug)

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is part of a puzzle in the No-man's-sky game.
A snooty guy on Reddit denigrated the OP for being helpful and placing the answers for mere mortals to see.

I'd write tons more about reruns you never watched, without having trainers and cheats to enjoy games.

Frequently (kind of,) I see real old guys commenting that they enjoy this game, even though it is still hard for them to play.

Some like puzzles, just as some enjoy Trump.
Ich Nicht.

"How Bizarre"

You'd think being smart would make people nicer ("enlightened") not snobby cold unfeeling and dangerous.
(But no)

Middle ground there is, between neanderthal and Alien from the future.

Dr Evil is a stereotype, a meme, but you all voted for him anyway.

"Dune" was way too long.

They made too many star wars movies.

Figuring out the puzzle that is this editor, makes me forget things...
"Excalibur" was one of the greatest movies ever, but it didn't do too well. "Creator" had a lot of philosophical conundrums, and it was also a great movie, but I doubt you've ever heard of it.
"Merlin" gets shown on the Freebie Sci-Fi channel sometimes, and it was also a really good movie.
Games would be better off with movies like those to emulate...but it'll never happen, you've all spoken and the world is shittier (but that's just old man ranting, on the leftist (uh) "snowflake" fringe.)


I'd like to think that I have an original thought, occasionally, but Google always proves me wrong: