Reminds me of Dwarf Fortress's original ASCII UI

well, that is an INSANE amount of praise, thank you so much! but yes, the ASCII art was inspired by Dwarf Fortress, Cataclysm, and a few other games :D

	▲	Filligree 3 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Arguably it might not be. :p That was CP437 squeezed into a terminal emulator that ran sixteen or so OpenGL calls per character. I spent a couple months building a shim library to optimise it, before Toady let me fix the game. :p Real terminal output ought to be faster, but don’t sleep on Kitty.
	▲	rootnod3 26 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		So, you know dwarf fortress but didn’t know nethack. For fucks sake…