favorite responses in games
Adam Myrow
encountered in IF games. Infocom usually had the best ones. Here are
just a few that I was wondering if anybody was aware of. In later
versions of Zork I, eating the clove of garlic gets you "what the heck!
You won't make friends this way, but nobody around here is too friendly
anyhow. Gulp!" Earlier versions just said that it really hit the spot
just like the lunch. Beyond Zork has a few funny responses. For example,
try calling the people of Froon munchkins some time. E.G. "examine
munchkin." Another good one is trying to swim in Spellbreaker in either
the ruins room or the oubliette. Besides Infocom games, some modern Inform
games have funny responses. In Photopia, when you are Wendy (the little
girl) lying in bed, do a look to get the room description, then try to
examine the teddy bear that is mentioned. In Spiritwrack, try to open the
detached door. Or, for an amusing bug, try "enter door" when holding the
detached door. In The Edifice, try typing "jump" on level three while
holding the piece of fruit. Or, try going in a direction that would send
you off a cliff. Does anybody else have favorite responses they've seen
in IF games?
Josh Westbury
> in IF games?
A couple spring to mind (spoilers from Sphinx Adv. and Jigsaw)
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Sphinx Adv:
>kill dragon
With what? With your bare hands?
>yes
Congratulations! You just killed a dragon with your bare hands!
(well, it amused me at the time)
Jigsaw:
>look under bench (IIRC)
You've played this game before!
(also reminds me of Welcome to this manual! in Frontier)
Josh
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>Does anybody else have favorite responses they've seen
>> in IF games?
Favourite Zork 1 transcript (this was my father playing):
>CLIMB DOWN CHIMNEY
Only Santa Claus climbs down chimnies!
>I AM SANTA CLAUS
I don't know the word "am".
Joe
Aquarius
> Does anybody else have favorite responses they've seen
>> in IF games?
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> Sphinx Adv:
>>kill dragon
> With what? With your bare hands?
>>yes
> Congratulations! You just killed a dragon with your bare hands!
> (well, it amused me at the time)
Sphinx Adventure also had "The camel says 'Two humps are better than
one.'" if you tried HELP while the camel was around, which is a fabulous
line :)
Aq.
--
"Out of the frying pan and into the very same, identical frying-pan.
Smegging great."
-- Lister, "Last Human"
BrenBarn
Ahl's books had a great response. If you tried to immediately fire your ship's
biggest weapons, it responded, "Let's not crack under pressure."
--BrenBarn (Bren...@aol.com)
(Name in header has spam-blocker, use the address above instead.)
"Do not follow where the path may lead;
go, instead, where there is no path, and leave a trail."
--Author Unknown
Billy Harris
The Tazmanian Devil is here, glaring furiously (and hungrily) at you
from within the bars of a metal cage.
>x devil
The Tazmanian Devil is a real animal, not a copyright of a certain
large corporation with lots of legal muscle. I can therefore mention it
by name in this game. Unfortunately, if I were to describe a real-life
Tazmanian Devil, you'd only be disappointed--they don't look like much.
So, I won't describe the slavering beast before you. And if you assume
that it has a boxy body attached to short thin legs, two large maniacal
eyes set above a wide, drooling, sharp-fanged mouth, and brown fur all
over, then YOU'RE violating copyright, not me.
Carl Muckenhoupt
bit where you're falling from a great height, the wind whipping around
you and suchlike.
>E (or any other direction)
Down seems more likely.
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"The bank plays you a song by Andrew Lloyd Weber that reminds you of
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Trapped In OC
Typing Zork in planetfall, and the response is Gezundhite...
Typing Phone Home in the trailor in BALLYHOO and getting the response about ET
leaving the circus
Typing Fuck in Bureaucracy and getting something like Watch your fucking
language you fucking fuck.
Typing Burn tree with torch in Zork 3 and getting the response about Smokey The
Bear putting out the fire, then you.
Last one, Typing Guards shoot guns, after ordering the guards to drop them in
Hitchhiker's guide.
scott
Stuart Feldhamer
you would type something along the lines of "Say 'Hello'", and the game
would respond with "Talking to yourself is a sign of impending mental
collapse." : )
Stuart
Matt Ackeret
I think it's:
Speaking to oneself is a sign of impending mental collapse.
(or possibly "Talking").
--
mat...@area.com
Adam Myrow
>wait until murter
It has been a long week, hasn't it?
>shoot clock
Sure, you probably need to sharpen your eye, but a grandfather clock is a
lousy target.
Actually, you get the same response if you try to shoot any inanimate
object with the name of the object in place of "grandfather clock."
Adam Myrow
http://www.eskimo.com/~myrow/
David J. Greenberger
I don't remember which game that was, but it was in the early Infocom
days -- maybe Zork III? I'm afraid I haven't been able to reproduce it,
so my memory may be failing me. Confirmation would be much appreciated.
--
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Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Mikko P Vuorinen
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Adam Myrow
is
>climb tower
What, do you think rapunzle is at the top? This is a
cartoon, not a fairy tale.
I had forgotten about that little game. To whoever was talking about the
responses to swearing in the original version of Zork, they are forever
preserved in the Inform port of that game. Look for zdungeon.z5 in the
games/zcode directory at the if-archive. That seems to be a fairly
faithful port down to the screwy map and "you can't go that way" messages
being replaced with "there is a wall there."
Adam Myrow
http://www.eskimo.com/~myrow/
Stephen Rogers
Heh. I didn't really believe it at first, but I downloaded it and got
that response after cussing out WinFrotz. It's for real, people.
Adam J. Thornton
Aquarius <aqua...@kryogenix.org> wrote:
>Sphinx Adventure also had "The camel says 'Two humps are better than
>one.'" if you tried HELP while the camel was around, which is a fabulous
>line :)
_Dangerous Curves_:
> ASK LIBRARIAN FOR DATE
"Is your arm broken? Get it yourself."
Adam
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ical...@my-deja.com
ad...@princeton.edu (Adam J. Thornton) wrote:
> In article <8s2eqr$lo$1...@drmanhattan.kryogenix.org>,
> Aquarius <aqua...@kryogenix.org> wrote:
> >Sphinx Adventure also had "The camel says 'Two humps are better than
> >one.'" if you tried HELP while the camel was around, which is a
> fabulous line :)
>
> _Dangerous Curves_:
>
> > ASK LIBRARIAN FOR DATE
>
> "Is your arm broken? Get it yourself."
So much for clever default responses. :)
irene
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Matthew T. Russotto
}In article <8scnob$fnr$2...@cnn.Princeton.EDU>,
} ad...@princeton.edu (Adam J. Thornton) wrote:
}> In article <8s2eqr$lo$1...@drmanhattan.kryogenix.org>,
}> Aquarius <aqua...@kryogenix.org> wrote:
}
}> >Sphinx Adventure also had "The camel says 'Two humps are better than
}> >one.'" if you tried HELP while the camel was around, which is a
}> fabulous line :)
}>
}> _Dangerous Curves_:
}>
}> > ASK LIBRARIAN FOR DATE
}>
}> "Is your arm broken? Get it yourself."
}
}So much for clever default responses. :)
If you wanted to be irritating, you could have put a bowl of fruits of
the palm somewhere in the room (but out of reach to the player).
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of justice is no virtue."
Torbjörn Andersson
are both from Infocom games. First, Beyond Zork:
>WEAR HORSESHOE
No.
The second is from Enchanter:
>EXAMINE WALL
The wall is stained and noisome.
>LISTEN TO WALL
That's noisome, not noisy!
(This was the first time I ever saw or heard the word "noisome", so I
truly did think it had something to do with noise.)
Torbjörn Andersson
Joona I Palaste
> yes
Are you talking to yourself again?
> yes
Just checking.
> yes
Are you talking to yourself again?
> no
Well it sounded like it.
> play with dragon
The dragon emits a colossal blast of flame, burning you to a crisp.
*** YOU HAVE DIED ***
Actually, nothing of that sort happens, it's just the sort of dragon
game you like to play.
> look book
The book is titled "Sheep through history".
> read book
You begin to read the book, but soon fall asheep, waking up later,
feeling rather sheepish.
(in the village pub)
> n
Well, if walking towards the bar seems like your idea of fun, I won't
stop you. The bar, however, does.
Examining the door in the clockmaker's shop gave a rather funny
description, but I don't remember it.
All of the above are paraphrases from memory, so don't flame me if I
got some details wrong.
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Joona I Palaste
: Typing Fuck in Bureaucracy and getting something like Watch your fucking
: language you fucking fuck.
Sierra's Conquest of Camelot:
> FUCK MERLIN
"My darling boy, I never knew you cared."
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Peter Ciccolo
Adam Myrow wrote:
> I was just thinking about some of the funny responses that I have
> encountered in IF games. Infocom usually had the best ones.
> Does anybody else have favorite responses they've seen
> in IF games?
This may not count, as it's actually an Inform library response:
'Mild' swearing, like darn, etc. gets the response "Quite." For
some reason, this has always struck me as such a
(stereotypical, I know) British response. I can practically
see the parser as a stock butler.
Brown_Recluse
<pci...@attglobal.net> wrote:
In a couple of games, I've seen "I don't have prehensile eyes."
in response to EXAMINE ME. Prompted me to look it up in the
dictionary as a ten-year old. 20 yrs later I've still never seen
the word outside the context of describing certain monkeys' tails.
Another favorite is from Leather Goddesses: PUT TRAY IN
T-REMOVER. It looks like Ray Whats-his-name from fourth grade.
Matthew T. Russotto
Peter Ciccolo <pci...@attglobal.net> wrote:
}
}This may not count, as it's actually an Inform library response:
}'Mild' swearing, like darn, etc. gets the response "Quite." For
} some reason, this has always struck me as such a
}(stereotypical, I know) British response. I can practically
}see the parser as a stock butler.
Or perhaps as Robin Masters?
David Thornley
Brown_Recluse <brownrecluse@bite_me.com> wrote:
>
>Another favorite is from Leather Goddesses: PUT TRAY IN
>T-REMOVER. It looks like Ray Whats-his-name from fourth grade.
The rabbit's another one to put in there for laughs.
I really wanted there to be something special about the "black sain"
or whatever that was too. Instead, it was just another bland item.
"You see nothing unusual about the black sain."
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J.D. Berry
thor...@visi.com (David Thornley) wrote:
> In article <201020001904269563%brownrecluse@bite_me.com>,
> Brown_Recluse <brownrecluse@bite_me.com> wrote:
> >
> >Another favorite is from Leather Goddesses: PUT TRAY IN
> >T-REMOVER. It looks like Ray Whats-his-name from fourth grade.
>
>
> or whatever that was too. Instead, it was just another bland item.
> "You see nothing unusual about the black sain."
>
They had a clever little bit about Spahn and Sain ready to go for that
baby. But still reeling from the criticism on their baseball puzzle in
Zork part the deux, they wisely left it out.
#> pray for rain
You seem to be missing Warren Spahn.
#> say hey
(to the Giant)
This is the American League! (Besides, I-F players don't like Mays)
#> put the Bambino in the T-remover
You'll ruh the day you do that.
... and this kind of meandering post is what happens to Comp authors
who get (almost) no feedback. ;-)
Jim
"Mister October"
Berry
"But the Comp results are tallied in November!"
"Exactly."
A.J. Franzman
>}'Mild' swearing, like darn, etc. gets the response "Quite." For
>} some reason, this has always struck me as such a
>}(stereotypical, I know) British response. I can practically
>}see the parser as a stock butler.
>
>Or perhaps as Robin Masters?
Don't you mean Jonathan Q. Higgins? Or WAS he Robin Masters? I remember the
running gag about Magnum and Higgins going back and forth about it, and one
episode in which Robin (supposedly) actually came to the estate for Magnum to
save from being murdered, but was it ever definitively settled that Higgins was
or was not Mr. Masters?
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> or whatever that was too. Instead, it was just another bland item.
> "You see nothing unusual about the black sain."
>WHAT IS SAIN?
Beats me.
I tried every obvious item just to see the game's response, including the
cotton balls. Fortunately, the imps thought of that one too and prevented it's
working.
For those of you unfamiliar with the slang of the American south, "coon" is a
synonym for a certain racial epithet starting with "n".
Sean T Barrett
>... and this kind of meandering post is what happens to Comp authors
>who get (almost) no feedback. ;-)
If there were a listing of games with contact addresses
so I didn't have to open up games (or look for readmes
in the game directories) I'd probably be more likely to
go in little bursts of sending out comments to 5 or 6
authors at a time, but the process as it stands is too
inconvenient for me to ever feel sufficiently motivated.
(This is clearly *my* fault, but since email feedback
is optional I think it might be worth doing something
to address my laziness, assuming anyone else agrees with
me.)
SeanB
Gunther Schmidl
is a
> synonym for a certain racial epithet starting with "n".
While we're speaking of those, it took me years and years to be able to find
someone to tell me what the other meaning of "Let's call a spade a spade"
(from Curses) was.
Then I read one of Harlan Ellison's stories that presented me with about 25
different synonyms for that certain racial epithet. I still can't make out
where some of these come from, but I don't think I really want to know
either.
You almost have to admire the ingenuity of these xenophobic freaks. [*]
Almost.
-- Gunther
[*] by that I do NOT mean Ellison.
Jake Wildstrom
A.J. Franzman <afra...@aol.compute.com> wrote:
>For those of you unfamiliar with the slang of the American south, "coon" is a
>synonym for a certain racial epithet starting with "n".
Well, it's also short for "racoon". I guess it really depends on context and
geography.
Wile we're at it, I _stil_ don't get what's so disturbing about the line
"let's call a spade a spade". Enlightenment please? Is "spade" also a racial
epithet? I've never heard it.
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J.D. Berry
buz...@world.std.com (Sean T Barrett) wrote:
>
> If there were a listing of games with contact addresses
> so I didn't have to open up games (or look for readmes
> in the game directories) I'd probably be more likely to
> go in little bursts of sending out comments to 5 or 6
> authors at a time, but the process as it stands is too
> inconvenient for me to ever feel sufficiently motivated.
> (This is clearly *my* fault, but since email feedback
> is optional I think it might be worth doing something
> to address my laziness, assuming anyone else agrees with
> me.)
Sean, then you'd have to press the mouse button opening up that page...
;-D (I'm thinking of George Jetson complaining about his brutal work
day. "I had to press THREE buttons.")
I kid because I care. Actually, I was going to put together
a "complete" list of addresses. But then, fearing the backlash of "you
can't just put people's email addresses on the newsgroups," I didn't.
I saw the teeth pulling Stephen had to do to get permission for
a "simple" one-time "duh, it's already published to the world so what's
the big deal" CD.
I understand people wanting to save their comments for a grand post at
the end. The flood of reviews is almost a Comp in itself, except
without the prizes, the voting or anything else that would make it a
Comp. ;-)
Maybe to the player "feedback" connotes a serious dissection of the
game, a critical review involving days of work? It shouldn't. I mean
you _could_ do so, but you don't gotsta. Just a one-liner of
recognition would be nice.
Some patronizing, subtle slam compliments to get you going:
"I liked the sentence you didn't mangle."
"I almost vaguely half-smiled once."
"Ummmm... interesting?"
"Nice parser!" ("But, I, uh, didn't write that.")
"Nice title." (followed by NOTHING.)
"Pretty font." (ditto.)
"I laughed out loud many times." ("But it was a Lovecraftian work set
during the Black Plague.")
"Loved the interaction pressing the space bar."
Other possibilities:
"I would have played your game but the exciting presidential debates
were on, and then I had to wash my hair. I had to get up early the
next day, too. It's not you, it's me. No, I can't play it Friday, or
Saturday. Call me next week sometime."
"It's no Everquest."
Jim
"The Compiler of Excuses, but not of people's publically available
addresses"
Berry
Richard Bos
> Wile we're at it, I _stil_ don't get what's so disturbing about the line
> "let's call a spade a spade". Enlightenment please? Is "spade" also a racial
> epithet? I've never heard it.
Spades are black. Yes, that's about as subtle as your average racist
gets to be.
Richard
Paul O'Brian
> If there were a listing of games with contact addresses
> so I didn't have to open up games (or look for readmes
> in the game directories) I'd probably be more likely to
> go in little bursts of sending out comments to 5 or 6
> authors at a time, but the process as it stands is too
> inconvenient for me to ever feel sufficiently motivated.
The game descriptions in Comp00.z5 contain the author's email address,
when available. Maybe typing "X VERB" or "X AFTERMATH" is still more
effort than you want to make, but it's less effort than what you describe
above. Hope that's helpful.
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Andrew Plotkin
>> I really wanted there to be something special about the "black sain"
>> or whatever that was too. Instead, it was just another bland item.
>> "You see nothing unusual about the black sain."
>>WHAT IS SAIN?
> Beats me.
> I tried every obvious item just to see the game's response, including the
> cotton balls. Fortunately, the imps thought of that one too and prevented it's
> working.
> For those of you unfamiliar with the slang of the American south, "coon" is a
> synonym for a certain racial epithet starting with "n".
Huh. I probably never even thought of that interpretation when I first
played LGOP. (The idea of raccoon testicles would have seemed plenty
dirty enough for me.) What is the message you get when you try it?
(I assume the epithet you mean is "nigger".)
--Z
"And Aholibamah bare Jeush, and Jaalam, and Korah: these were the
borogoves..."
mike_...@hotmail.com
> Maybe to the player "feedback" connotes a serious dissection of the
> game, a critical review involving days of work? It shouldn't. I mean
> you _could_ do so, but you don't gotsta. Just a one-liner of
> recognition would be nice.
>
For what it's worth, I've e-mailed about a dozen+
authors, giving them feedback and transcript files.
I've been surprised by the lack of acknowledgment
from some of them. Oh well...
-- Mike
James Marshall
>> Wile we're at it, I _stil_ don't get what's so disturbing about the line
>> "let's call a spade a spade". Enlightenment please? Is "spade" also a
>> racial epithet? I've never heard it.
>Someone being "as black as the ace of spades"
That I could see as being a racial remark. The previous one doesn't seem
as obvious to me. I've never associated the phrase "let's call a spade a
spade" to some racial context. Isn't that usually used just to say "let's
call it what it is"? A spade is also a small, hand-held shovel-like
gardening tool, so why can't that be the "spade" mentioned?
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Gunther Schmidl
> "let's call a spade a spade". Enlightenment please? Is "spade" also a
racial
> epithet? I've never heard it.
Someone being "as black as the ace of spades"
-- Gunther
Gunther Schmidl
people this epithet refers to.
-- Gunther
Adam J. Thornton
The best corruption of this I ever heard was a description of someone or
something (I don't remember what) as being "black as the Ape Of Spain"
which has a wonderfully bizarre 15th-century feeling to it.
Matthew T. Russotto
Jake Wildstrom <wil...@mit.edu> wrote:
}In article <20001024003709...@ng-cc1.aol.com>,
}A.J. Franzman <afra...@aol.compute.com> wrote:
}>synonym for a certain racial epithet starting with "n".
}
}geography.
}
}"let's call a spade a spade". Enlightenment please? Is "spade" also a racial
}epithet? I've never heard it.
Yes. Same one. From the expression "black as the Ace of Spades", I
think. I've also seen it claimed to refer to a manual laborer
(i.e. one who might use the pointy-ended digging instrument).
Matthew T. Russotto
A.J. Franzman <afra...@aol.compute.com> wrote:
}>}This may not count, as it's actually an Inform library response:
}>}'Mild' swearing, like darn, etc. gets the response "Quite." For
}>} some reason, this has always struck me as such a
}>}(stereotypical, I know) British response. I can practically
}>}see the parser as a stock butler.
}>
}>Or perhaps as Robin Masters?
}
}Don't you mean Jonathan Q. Higgins?
That's him.
}Or WAS he Robin Masters? I remember the
}running gag about Magnum and Higgins going back and forth about it, and one
}episode in which Robin (supposedly) actually came to the estate for Magnum to
}save from being murdered, but was it ever definitively settled that Higgins was
}or was not Mr. Masters?
Higgins admitted it to Magnum in the final episode.... but then at the last
minute, told Magnum "I lied". So it was never settled. Cheezy
cop-out if you ask me...
Sean T Barrett
>Maybe to the player "feedback" connotes a serious dissection of the
>game, a critical review involving days of work? It shouldn't. I mean
>you _could_ do so, but you don't gotsta. Just a one-liner of
>recognition would be nice.
I tend to play games a couple at a time, and I tend not to
be online at the time, and if I were, I still wouldn't want
to switch from game-playing mode to "tactful encouragement
mode" between every game.
Hence it makes more sense for me to write such messages
in little clusters at some other point in time; not because
I need lots of time to compose a serious response, but simply
because it's not the kind of thing I can do while playing
a game. Going back into each game to find the contact
address would be enough drudgery at that point that I'm
too lazy to do it.
Anyway, to respond to a different post, the fact that the contact
addresses are all available in comp00.z5 is sufficient for my
purposes, thanks.
[snip further witty evidence of Jim Berry being deprived of feedback]
SeanB
Gunther Schmidl
> Huh. I probably never even thought of that interpretation when I first
> played LGOP. (The idea of raccoon testicles would have seemed plenty
> dirty enough for me.) What is the message you get when you try it?
From TXDing the game file, something along the lines of "Let's just say
there's a male raccoon somewhere speaking in a very high-pitched voice."
-- Gunther
J.D. Berry
ad...@princeton.edu (Adam J. Thornton) wrote:
>
> The best corruption of this I ever heard was a description of someone
or
> something (I don't remember what) as being "black as the Ape Of Spain"
> which has a wonderfully bizarre 15th-century feeling to it.
>
Don't the Apes of Spain lie mainly on the seascape?
Jim
Adam J. Thornton
J.D. Berry <jdb...@my-deja.com> wrote:
>In article <8t4s6u$qjk$2...@cnn.Princeton.EDU>,
> ad...@princeton.edu (Adam J. Thornton) wrote:
>> The best corruption of this I ever heard was a description of someone
>or
>> something (I don't remember what) as being "black as the Ape Of Spain"
>> which has a wonderfully bizarre 15th-century feeling to it.
>Don't the Apes of Spain lie mainly on the seascape?
No, they fall mainly from the trains.
Adam Conover
Routine R0251, 0 locals ()
Action routine for:
"gag OBJ with OBJ"
JE G65,#15 [TRUE] L0001
PRINT_RET "What a concept!"
L0001: JE Gca,#6b [TRUE] L0002
PRINT "With a "
PRINT_OBJ G65
PRINT_RET "?"
L0002: PRINT_RET "Grody to the max! Like, totally!"
Routine R0252, 0 locals ()
Action routine for:
"gross out OBJ"
TEST_ATTR G65,#1f [FALSE] L0001
PRINT_RET "Let's not be disgusting!"
L0001: PRINT_RET "Gag me with a spoon!"
....
i mean, who would have -tried- these verbs?
- adam
(take out the the 'removethis' from e-mail address to reply)
Sean O'Byrne
> Action routine for:
> "gag OBJ with OBJ"
>
> JE G65,#15 [TRUE] L0001
> PRINT_RET "What a concept!"
>L0001: JE Gca,#6b [TRUE] L0002
> PRINT "With a "
> PRINT_OBJ G65
> PRINT_RET "?"
>L0002: PRINT_RET "Grody to the max! Like, totally!"
>
>Routine R0252, 0 locals ()
> Action routine for:
> "gross out OBJ"
>
> TEST_ATTR G65,#1f [FALSE] L0001
> PRINT_RET "Let's not be disgusting!"
>L0001: PRINT_RET "Gag me with a spoon!"
>
>
>....
>
>i mean, who would have -tried- these verbs?
A Frank Zappa fan? Or a Valley Girl? Just be thankful they
didn't implement the zircon-encrusted tweezers.
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Sean O'Byrne
sean....@anu.edu.au
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afr...@my-deja.com
> I've never associated the phrase "let's call a spade a
> spade" to some racial context. Isn't that usually used just to
say "let's
> call it what it is"? A spade is also a small, hand-held shovel-like
> gardening tool, so why can't that be the "spade" mentioned?
>
The catch is that the spade in question is both a digging impliment
_and_ a racial epithet. So the phrase will always have that other
connotation attached. Replacing the offending term with another
gardening implement would sort everything out... (perhaps a ho?)
AFROBOT
Richard Bos
> > I've never associated the phrase "let's call a spade a
> > spade" to some racial context. Isn't that usually used just to
> > say "let's
> > call it what it is"? A spade is also a small, hand-held shovel-like
> > gardening tool, so why can't that be the "spade" mentioned?
>
> The catch is that the spade in question is both a digging impliment
> _and_ a racial epithet. So the phrase will always have that other
> connotation attached. Replacing the offending term with another
> gardening implement would sort everything out... (perhaps a ho?)
No, it wouldn't. Racists would still be fuckheads, one and all, and we'd
have given in to them. Besides, the phrase was there before the abuse
was. Let _them_ replace their term. A spade will remain a spade in my
vocabulary, and it won't be a human being. Ever.
Richard
Carl Muckenhoupt
>The catch is that the spade in question is both a digging impliment
>_and_ a racial epithet. So the phrase will always have that other
>connotation attached. Replacing the offending term with another
>gardening implement would sort everything out... (perhaps a ho?)
Well, you could always call a trough a trough. That's how the phrase
went originally. The version with "spade" is the result of a
mistranslation from Greek.
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Liza Daly
: J.D. Berry <jdb...@my-deja.com> wrote:
: > Maybe to the player "feedback" connotes a serious dissection of the
: > game, a critical review involving days of work? It shouldn't. I mean
: > you _could_ do so, but you don't gotsta. Just a one-liner of
: > recognition would be nice.
: >
: For what it's worth, I've e-mailed about a dozen+
: authors, giving them feedback and transcript files.
: I've been surprised by the lack of acknowledgment
: from some of them. Oh well...
I got Mike's reply, and I hugely appreciated the feedback.
But I was only halfway through his game at the time, and
didn't want to reply until I had something to say besides
"thanks."
I'm just slow, not unappreciative. :)
--Liza
Mike Sousa
Liza Daly wrote:
>
> : For what it's worth, I've e-mailed about a dozen+
> : authors, giving them feedback and transcript files.
> : I've been surprised by the lack of acknowledgment
> : from some of them. Oh well...
>
> I got Mike's reply, and I hugely appreciated the feedback.
> But I was only halfway through his game at the time, and
> didn't want to reply until I had something to say besides
> "thanks."
>
> I'm just slow, not unappreciative. :)
>
> --Liza
>
Just to clarify, I was _surprised_ that some of the authors didn't acknowledge
the feedback only because some of the recent threads had authors craving it
(feedback). I knew it was appreciated, though. :)
Also, my intention was not to illicit response(s) for AWE. I figured as a
player that is also an author, it was the least I could do for fellow authors
since I can't vote -- Miss Congeniality aside, of course!
Cheers,
-- Mike
Duncan Stevens
> >}'Mild' swearing, like darn, etc. gets the response "Quite." For
> >} some reason, this has always struck me as such a
> >}(stereotypical, I know) British response. I can practically
> >}see the parser as a stock butler.
In older versions of Inform, the response was something like "It's good that
you can express your frustration in such a mild way," which is also pretty
funny.
--Duncan
A.J. Franzman
Only in Lewd mode (which I didn't remember.) In the other two modes, it can't
be done because the T-remover will only hold ONE object and the pair of cotton
balls is two objects.
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My real e-mail address does not compute.
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