Heretic is on PewDiePie!

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The developer of Heretic shares excitement after PewDiePie featured the project in a video, bringing wider mainstream attention to the tool and sparking anticipation for Heretic 2.0.

So I haven’t played a computer game in 20 years, and I know nothing about Minecraft, and I definitely prefer classical literature over YouTube culture, but even I have heard about the individual called PewDiePie, for two reasons: His monicker starts with the initials of my own name I remember a recurring Internet meme a few years ago where he was competing for the most subscribers with an Indian film music channel I had never watched a single one of his videos, however. Well, until today, when people started spamming me with messages informing me that Mr. Kjellberg aka PewDiePie has tried out Heretic and made a video where he talks about it: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ODDJXGY_1kQ (Heretic mentioned around 9:00) Obviously I’m thrilled that a less technical audience is being exposed to my work, and the more people understand what is possible the better. I expect to be receiving a couple hundred more mails in the coming days asking how to run Heretic on ChatGPT (you can’t), or accusing me of working for the CIA (I don’t), but other than that, the more the merrier I guess 😏 Heretic 2.0 coming soon…
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