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> And it also teaches people how to conserve resources and not blost.

Sometimes, eliminating bloat is the only way to actually achieve the task: https://livefreeordichotomize.com/posts/2019-06-04-using-awk-and-r-to-parse-25tb/

> if I recall, games like The Legend Of Zelda and Metroid kept track of which items the player had by shifting bits.

Oh, yeah, most games back in the day did this by means of using individual bits as flags. It's less often individual bits nowadays, so you do some query against the global state-of-the-world object (Crunk is almost certainly more current on this than I am), but in principle they do the logic that way still: you go to the castle, who's standing outside? Depends on whether the massacre event has happened yet, and that event sets a flag. Same with items.