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title: "the year was 1999. Star Wars DroidWorks let you built custom robots and use them on different..."
date: 2026-08-28
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the year was 1999. Star Wars DroidWorks let you built custom robots and use them on different missions. I was obsessed with this game as an 8yo

27 years later, the company I am working for launches actual droids for anyone to buy and tinker with

WHAT A TIME TO BE ALIVE

*Quotes a post by @Thom_Wolf (https://x.com/Thom_Wolf/status/2092923071829049592); its text is omitted here because it is not covered by this site's license.*