Oh fine, I will explain Hex.
And also, if I have time, a real life man with ants in his computer.
The Discworld series is one of slightly metafictional adult fantasy.
A reference to the earliest kind of punchcard data processing, you see?
Hex pops up in successive books and becomes smarter, and accrues more references.
The doesn’t do anything, but if the mouse is removed then Hex stops working.
I have always, from the moment it was introduced, loved Hex.
Rather than increasing the processing power, the ants were making the computer overheat.
A few years agolazylollipopposted an extended gif showing their CPU/GPU “infested by ants”.
This is not an exaggeration.
They’re everywhere in there.
