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You should have a screenshot.

There is a screenshot in the README, and according to the github timestamp, the project hasn't been changed since you write this to add such a screen shot.

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I thought it was a ssh key fingerprint at first

Is this technically a screenshot? I mean its text, not a picture, so more of an output-example.

Can text be put on a screen? And can you take a picture of it when it is? Well, you might have a screenshot of text.

That wasn't done here.

How does a text representation of an Emacs screen snapshot look any better than a pixel representation of that same screen snapshot? It's much more flexible, more compact, and qualitatively better, since you can change the font size, and it's still crisp, and you can even copy and paste the text.

It makes perfect sense to use compact flexible text instead of a fatter fixed resolution image to screen shot Emacs.

It seems like it was added by an LLM since it says "This is a simplified snapshot to show the general layout."

Notice how it says "simplified snapshot","general layout". I don't think this is the actual representation of how the game looks like :)

Actually, this is a copy of the older version of interface with a few lines dropped. I failed to generate a decent gif last night, will add a screenshot.

Admittedly, while working on this, I did consult my LLMs advisor through gptel(https://github.com/karthink/gptel) with a few custom tools setup, which I cannot recommend enough.

There you go!

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