The new Duo exhibits Apple Mouse scale UX oversights.

Nixon resigned to avoid impeachment for political corruption.

Reagan colluded with Iran to prevent the release of hostages during Carter's re-election campaign and later sold them weapons to bypass congressional oversight.

These are just a couple well known examples at the presidential level, I am sure that for every one we know about there are dozens if hundreds of similar examples.

Go further down the scale to the congressional, state, city, and municipal levels and you encounter even pettier levels of corruption where you can buy votes for 5 figure construction contracts or just simple cash handoffs.

It has always existed, but it is absurdly easy now and happening in plain sight.

have you found yourself constrained with engine boilerplate or do you feel like you are making good progress on the magic system?

Some others that I have in my library are magicraft, fictorum, and spell chain.

I'm messing around with these ideas myself, reminds me of the old days of crafting broken spells in morrowind.

I like the narrative element and enjoy delegating random shit and seeing what happens.

nobody is making you play it, and the people who enjoy playing it don't really care if it you liked it or not.

if you are a fan of the original I would encourage you to give it another shot.

there is a novelty to ascii, but its a barrier to entry and major eye strain.