No it frustrates me when something so obvious needs to be announced 50 million times as if it's some revelatory discovery.
Here a list of games that are unintentionally turing complete:
Dwarf Fortress
OpenTTD
Terraria
Minecraft
Minesweeper
LittleBigPlanet
Baba is You
Factorio
Cities: Skylines
Opus Magnum
Portal 2
Geometry Dash
You can come up with approximately 10 analogy blog posts for each game... written, of course, from a different blog with each post presenting the analogy as if it's some amazing idea. Then of course post it on hackernews and flood the front page with this stuff.
Well, the world is full of people that have never played Factorio. Some of them are programmers, and when they finally play it they get excited about it and want to tell people about it. Independent rediscovery.
And I'll admit to bring irked sometimes when a recurring theme or repost rears its head on HN pg1 for the dozenth time, so I guess I understand your sentiment. But I console myself with the knowledge that what is old and cliche for me is likely to be eternally new for an ever changing subset of readers.
Also thanks for the list of games-- I had no idea some of them were Turing complete, and will enjoy a bit of dugging internet rabbit holes finding out the details of why & how.
Here a list of games that are unintentionally turing complete:
You can come up with approximately 10 analogy blog posts for each game... written, of course, from a different blog with each post presenting the analogy as if it's some amazing idea. Then of course post it on hackernews and flood the front page with this stuff.