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From: John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com>
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On Fri, 19 Apr 2024 08:57:08 -0000 (UTC)
Muttley@dastardlyhq.com wrote:

> The amount of code written in the language. I doubt game scripting
> amounts to much in the scheme of things.

And you base this assumption on...?

> Don't remember them tbh. A serious application IMO is something that
> impacts society as a whole in that if it didn't exist we'd be in
> trouble or something that benefits a persons ability to live their
> life. If games vanishes some teenagers and kidults might get a bit
> annoyed for a while before they went outside and played with a ball
> but society would carry on as before.

So you discount them because you didn't bother to pay attention before
firing off a response?

> Its a very relevant insult given these days every socially awkward
> moron decides they're on the spectrum so they can have some kind of
> disadvantage kudos.

Nobody in this discussion said any such thing.