The HN discussion on Ebert&#x27;s comment was quite fascinating:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=1273241" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=1273241</a><p>Jason Rohrer lived a very minimal lifestyle before 2012, as described here:
<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;hcsoftware.sourceforge.net&#x2F;jason-rohrer&#x2F;simpleLife.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;hcsoftware.sourceforge.net&#x2F;jason-rohrer&#x2F;simpleLife.ht...</a><p><i>We have set our yearly budget at about $9,756. Town, village, and school property taxes eat up about $1500 of this per year. After that, we have a budget of about $688 per month. We have devoted $200 of this to utilities (water, electric, and amortized heat), and $65 to telephone and Internet. You might be laughing: &quot;No fridge, but you have DSL, huh?&quot; Remember, I am a computer programmer. After all of these expenses, we are left with about $423 per month, which must cover food and other purchases.</i><p>His computer setup back then involved a broken Dell Inspiron 4100 with 950 MHz processor and 256 MiB of RAM:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;usesthis.com&#x2F;interviews&#x2F;jason.rohrer&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;usesthis.com&#x2F;interviews&#x2F;jason.rohrer&#x2F;</a><p>His game <i>Passage</i> is a free download from his website.