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This reads like something Bo Burnham would write/perform.

I remember coming across HoMM around 2008, but the published game was nowhere available near where I lived, so I ended up playing a web based clone[0].

Been playing it for around 17 years, and it is still quite fun.

[0] https://www.lordswm.com/

Just from a first impression, it seems like credits replace subscription here?

The only difference then is to switch to a pay as you go rather than fixed monthly payments.

3121 pts, 14 avg. years off.

Decent try considering most of the options were USA specific.

I recently came across TypescriptToLua[0] which has improved my experience of writing Lua manyfolds. No more having to deal with 1-based indexes or lack of type hints.

[0] https://typescripttolua.github.io/

Coincidentally, I've been mulling the same idea for a week now. A self-hostable source forge + registry to serve artifacts would be amazing.

I think the only thing you'd lose is the 'social' aspects of GitHub, but I believe that can be made up with a combination of rss feeds (?), ActivityPub etc.