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offline w M w from London (United Kingdom) on 2007-09-14 21:07 [#02119976]
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It's too fucking complicated and who has the patience.
Every time you start with some kitten? wtf? A million
commands. I hope you enjoyed this post. Become carrion and
have flies lay maggots in your unblinking eyes. Only then
will you be beautiful.


 

offline Zephyr Twin from ΔΔΔ on 2007-09-14 21:09 [#02119977]
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By these criteria, I've been beautiful for the past 2 and a
half years.


 

offline w M w from London (United Kingdom) on 2007-09-14 21:13 [#02119979]
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I'm a ghost too. It's nice in some ways, completely fucked
up in others. Here is a picture of a stinkhorn mushroom.
When aliens travel to other planets in order to build their
alien zoo, they will only have a single container to
preserve one life form chosen from each planet they visit. I
believe the stinkhorn mushroom will be their chosen
representative of earth.


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offline Zephyr Twin from ΔΔΔ on 2007-09-14 22:50 [#02119989]
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They would be ridiculed if they returned with anything less.
Most other lifeforms, save for single celled organisms, are
far too young to be considered successful. Stinkhorns,
alternatively, don't take no lip from nobody.


 

offline Fah from Netherlands, The on 2007-09-15 07:54 [#02120102]
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nethack is pretty neat, an effective time killer


 

offline w M w from London (United Kingdom) on 2007-09-15 18:02 [#02120270]
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I played rogue all day yestoday. Maybe I should read
nethacks instructions so I know what the hell to do.


 

offline Fah from Netherlands, The on 2007-09-15 18:07 [#02120276]
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yeh it's quite chaotic, but i love it. It's one of those
game i find really neat.. i mean, random deaths,
random items, randomized dungeons, it's brilliant!


 

offline Ceri JC from Jefferson City (United States) on 2007-09-16 03:36 [#02120412]
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I used to play ZZT loads and have completed it
(non-shareware - all 4 worlds) without using cheats/guides.
I even made a few games myself in the engine.


 

offline w M w from London (United Kingdom) on 2007-09-16 04:44 [#02120423]
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That's the first time I've heard of that.

The randomness is awesome. Games need more randomness.

I'm a festering heap of illness and only the tip of the ice
berg of humanity. The ultimate reward for that long
evolutionary history of replication of the modern chicken
was being farmed; complete ownership and manipulation by
human nature cheaters. They didn't just take the soul of a
chicken, they took the soul of the entire species and so
many others. There's probably none without collateral
damage. Maybe intelligence is evil. But luckily, all this
time, an army of stinkhorn mushrooms has been building in
the shadowed crevices, getting ready for the day of glory
when they use their mimicked scent of decomposing bodies and
fecal matter to attract and guide the insects of pandoras
box into the mouths of all the humans. There will be a
revolution and a long peace. Perhaps they will tear down all
the technology or rebuild it for their humble mushroomy
needs. But perhaps, one day, they too will be tempted to
cheat nature in which case they would likely be overthrown
by the whales. I wonder how many times earth's life has
completely restarted from nuclear wars. In normal universes
there is probably a complete wall of existence without this
isolating polka dot planet shit, allowing for constant
growth and interaction. Ours probably has some sort of
disorder like the elephant man. Rogue. Aphex twin.


 

offline Ceri JC from Jefferson City (United States) on 2007-09-16 12:09 [#02120498]
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ZZT is superb, I thought you'd like it. I actually learnt
object-oriented programming from the scripting you could do
in that (which at the time the game game out was still
fairly new/exciting). I really like the way some of the
games you can DL for it vastly exceed the complexity of the
original and that people manage to get such different
looking games from just using ascii characters. It's like
playable ascii art. Talking of which, a favourite trick of
mine and the mate who I used to make games with, was to make
a "boss" character by drawing a big dragon/face/whatever out
of the bad guy characters (and as we got better/learnt to
make our own bad guys, any ascii character). As you entered
the screen, it would look like the big monster, but as soon
as you triggered whatever it was that started it (pushed a
button/stepped past a certain point, etc.) it would all
break down almost randomly into utter chaos of loads of
creatures attacking you and for the first few frames, the
face would distort.

Sorry to hear you're a festering heap of illness. I'm
feeling pretty ropey myself at the moment courtesy of some
stomach-bug my girlfriend brought back from her recent trip
to Italy.


 


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