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Found this gem my friends made of me when I was 20 years old, clowning how much I loved Robert Vieira's SQL Server books. Those Wrox books were the first that spoke to the audience like coworkers and not like robots ala Addison-Wesley. Now I love @manning.com, which is casual but accurate.

I had the series' next iteration on my bookshelf when I lived in San Francisco back in 2006/2007. I always preferred the single author versions of Wrox though. Didn't remember having a magazine rack, I love it. I miss SQL Server Magazine so much. It was often over my head but I loved it, still.

DQ Slime spotted, day made. ☺️

I loooooove DQ! Nice to meet a fellow fan. I am working on rebuilding my other favorite game, Infocom's Wishbringer and my first prompt was "making this text based game like Dragon Quest" then evolved it a bit. It's my side project when my other projects are running long prompts 😊

Haha, that shouldn't be so hard, but I love the triple SQL / DQ / Infocom nerdcrossing of streams. ☺️ I will make sure to check your game project out! Going to use dbatools to migrate a cluster estate away from SQL 2016 soon, too. Thanks for that gem, too.

Writing dbatools and writing a game feel exactly the same 💖 Thank you for enjoying my SQL Server-based game.

I got 23 points in Wishbringer before falling off a cliff. Literally. ☺️ That was fun and you I can already tell that it's a charming and fairy tale like story. I enjoyed it a lot, even though it seems not quite finished yet, from a technical POV. I'll be sure to return when I have time again.

I actually enjoyed the proper fail state! I sometimes got confused by the static graphics. When characters enter or leave the scene but the change is not reflected visually. Or when a dog seems to stay angry when he is really distracted. I guess that would maybe be helpful for beginners, too?

Love it, thank you for the feedback. The consistency is challenging but concrete examples help (I've done about 3 rounds so far). You know what is SO COOL? This actually runs Infocom's zmachine under the hood, so Sol had to check if it was possible to save state and it is. Just revert snapshot.

Really?! That is indeed damn cool. ☺️