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You put in the effort and develop a game whose screenshot looks like this:

  You see here a silver ring.
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  Hacker the Conjurer            St:11 Dx:13 Co:12 In:11 Wi:18 Ch:11  Neutral
  Dlvl:3  $:120 HP:39(41) Pw:36(36) AC:6  Exp:5 T:1073

and people say that it's "Rogue-like" or "a Roguelike", not "Rogue".

Somehow, nobody is upset about this.

But if you make some shitty evaluator with nested parentheses and throw it into Github, woe to him who dares say it's only "Lisp-like".

Think about it.

"Dung Beetles isn't a Pac Man??? Why, you obnoxious, gatekeeping poo-poo head!"



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