Good luck! I am about the same place in my career and I also wanted to actually release a game (not just make 80% of a game in secret!).
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Super annoying because all the earlier smart phones did have all that, even early Android. The OSes just keep getting more dumbed down and locked down to the point that I went from a phone enthusiast to despising all smart phones.
I had used like four different flavors of BASIC by the time I got a IBM compatible PC, but I ended up getting on the Borland train and ended up with Turbo Pascal, Turbo C, and Turbo ASM (and Turbo C++ that I totally bounced off of). I was in the first class at my school that learned Java in college. It was the brand new version 1.0.6! It was so rough and new, but honestly I liked it. It's wildly different now.
Sounds very similar to my own experience though there was a large amount of Pascal in between BASIC and C.
The list is honestly bizarre and the rank placements are all over the place. Most of your later examples of that I completely agree with. I just think that the mainline FF games not being on the top 100 list of PC games is fairly understandable, and I say that as a huge fan of the series. Ironically, FF14 is quite literally the only game in the series that I haven't played.
Regarding the FF games, I think it's actually fine considering some of the more notable omissions. Most FF games didn't get released anywhere near when they were relevant.
figures lmao
I had no idea Apollo got resurrected. I gave up hope after a few months when it went down many years ago.
DALnet and EFnet were both great for that
Absolutely agreed
RED and the defunct Apollo both welcomed WCD refuguees at first, but they filled up fast.
I am right there with you. My Pixel 4a is still going, but there doesn't appear to much anything on the market to replace it that doesn't have a boatload of caveats.