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