I'm amused to learn that many MUSHes have a notion of in-game currency used to pay for compute: https://github.com/pennmush/pennmush/blob/master/game/txt/hlp/penntop.hlp#L794
This very much predates Ethereum or AWS Lambda pay-per-API call!
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I am fascinated to learn about MUSHes, multiplayer games/discussion rooms which support the users collaboratively editing the code of the game! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUSH
The programming language used is lisp influenced: https://duh.com/discordia/mushman/man2x1