Does talking to my girlfriend count as communicating in code?

Honestly, the quality is too good - You can see the wizard behind the curtain.

Quake though was just a man who would grunt every so often

HDMI is hardly rare, you actually have to go out of your way to get a computer without it these days.

10 INPUT "Who is poster?";A$ 20 IF A$="plover" PRINT $A;" is a jerk" else 30 30 PRINT A$;" is not a jerk"

There are literally millions of programmers that cut their teeth on little 16K machines with basic in ROM. It stopped nobody from going on to OO languages. Dykstra was wrong.

-- BMO

Computing in what my son calls "the olden days" was huge fun. Though not as productive as it is today. For certain values of "productive". Back in the old days you could write a graphing program with a couple of for loops and a plot command. Now there's all sorts of hoops you have to jump through to simply open up a window.

people will spend spend spend on selfish desires but are against spending the same on their own welfare all the while complaining the rich have too much money. I know people spend themselves into a ditch paying for new gadgets and monthly fees and then turn around and bitch about how much money other people have.

Consumerism at its worst, they "deserve" to have what they want regardless of ability.

What if you are a citizen but speak accented english, or you prefer to speak another language.