Ethan Mollick riffs on SimHat lore and the infamous ham sandwich hardlock
emollick · x · 2026-09-28
Ethan Mollick continues a tongue-in-cheek thread defending the (fictional) text adventure SimHat, adding lore: a gritty early-2000s reboot, an online multiplayer version ("its a brimmunity!"), and a recent exploitative mobile game. He also recalls the infamous "ham sandwich hardlock" in Impossible Text Adventure, where eating the sandwich in chapter 1 made the game unwinnable and drove the forums crazy.
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