Should we, perhaps, close some of these games which nobody has ever played to reduce the number of topics bumped if the bot is restarted?

Bedroom Score: 0 Moves: 1 ­ ­THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY ­Infocom interactive fiction - a science fiction story ­Copyright (c) 1984 by Infocom, Inc. All rights reserved. ­Release 59 / Serial number 851108 ­ ­You wake up. The room is spinning very gently round your head. Or at least it ­would be if you could see it which you can't. ­ ­It is pitch black. ­ ­>open eyes ­They are. ­ ­>

Cave #20 5/5 ­Porting note: from TwelveBaud ­Inform 7, which was used to write this port, is a very powerful system for ­writing interactive fiction, and comes with an extensive built-in rulebook ­handling all kinds of situations common to text adventure games, from Colossal ­Cave Adventure through the Zork series and Infocom's golden years and even in ­the current day. However, "Hunt the Wumpus" was developed at around the same ­time as the first of these other games for much less capable systems, and as a ­result doesn't use any of the traits in the now-standard rulebook. The original ­game requested navigation by room numbers; instead, this game lets you navigate ­west, north, or east, or fire an arrow. ­ ­Hunt the Wumpus ­An Interactive Fiction by Gregory Yob ­Release 1 / Serial number 200705 / Inform 7 build 6M62 (I6/v6.33 lib 6/12N) ­ ­Cave #20 ­Tunnels lead west to 13, north to 16, and east to 19. ­ ­>rth ­That's not a verb I recognise. ­ ­>

West of House Score: 0 Moves: 0 ­ ­ZORK: The Great Underground Empire - Part I ­Copyright (c) 1980 by Infocom, Inc. All rights reserved. ­ZORK is a trademark of Infocom, Inc. ­Release 15 / Serial number ������ ­ ­West of House ­You are standing in an open field west of a white house, with a boarded front ­door. ­There is a small mailbox here. ­>

Twisted Forest Score: 0 Moves: 0 ­ ­You are in a strange location, but you cannot remember how you got here. ­Everything is hazy, as though viewed through a gauze... ­ ­Twisted Forest ­You are on a path through a blighted forest. The trees are sickly, and there is ­no undergrowth at all. One tree here looks climbable. The path, which ends here, ­continues to the northeast. ­A hellhound is racing straight toward you, its open jaws displaying rows of ­razor-sharp teeth. ­ ­>

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New Excavation Score: 0 Moves: 1 ­ ­Zork: The Undiscovered Underground, a text adventure prequel to Zork Grand ­Inquisitor ­Copyright 1997 by Activision Inc. ­Written by Marc Blank and Mike Berlyn, programmed by Gerry Kevin Wilson. ­Release 16 / Serial number 970828 / Inform v6.13 Library 6/2 ­Standard interpreter 1.0 ­ ­New Excavation ­You are standing at the entrance of a narrow, waist-high tunnel that winds out ­of sight to the northeast. This, you have been told, is the entrance to the ­newfound areas of the Great Underground Empire. In your left hand hangs a rather ­unconvincing replica of the traditional adventurer's brass lantern. In the other ­is an ersatz-Elvish sword of no antiquity whatsoever. Its plastic blade, dull as ­a bread knife, barely reflects the lantern's dim and uneven glow. ­ ­>nter ­That's not a verb I recognize. ­ ­>back ­That's not a verb I recognize. ­ ­>

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No in-game manual. Great...

Council Chamber Score: 0 Moves: 0 ­ ­SPELLBREAKER ­An Interactive Fantasy ­Copyright (c) 1985 by Infocom, Inc. All rights reserved. ­SPELLBREAKER is a trademark of Infocom, Inc. ­Release 63 / Serial number 850916 ­ ­Council Chamber ­You are in the Council Chamber of the ancient Guild Hall at Borphee. To the ­south is the entry of the Guild Hall. There is a meeting of the Guildmasters ­going on. You are standing among a group of about ten sorcerers, each the master ­of an Enchanters Guild chapter somewhere in the land. ­ ­>

Endless Stair Score: 0 Moves: 0 ­ ­As in a dream, you see yourself tumbling down a great, dark staircase. All about ­you are shadowy images of struggles against fierce opponents and diabolical ­traps. These give way to another round of images: of imposing stone figures, a ­cool, clear lake, and, now, of an old, yet oddly youthful man. He turns toward ­you slowly, his long, silver hair dancing about him in a fresh breeze. "You have ­reached the final test, my friend! You are proved clever and powerful, but this ­is not yet enough! Seek me when you feel yourself worthy!" The dream dissolves ­around you as his last words echo through the void.... ­ ­ZORK III: The Dungeon Master ­Copyright 1982 by Infocom, Inc. All rights reserved. ­ZORK is a trademark of Infocom, Inc. ­Release 15 / Serial number 830331 ­ ­Endless Stair ­You are at the bottom of a seemingly endless stair, winding its way upward ­beyond your vision. An eerie light, coming from all around you, casts strange ­shadows on the walls. To the south is a dark and winding trail. ­Your old friend, the brass lantern, is at your feet. ­ ­>

@error said in massive snes/n64 source code/asset leak: Obviously I would say that from my boomzilla sockpuppet account. So you're going to get @Gąska to say it? Seems cromulent.

@da-Doctah did the professor disappear in a puff of logic?

HistoryWhich of these countries was sea charted in 1500 by the Portuguese maritime explorations?A. IndiaB. MozambiqueC. BrazilD. MadagascarLockoutsizzion is locked out for 1 round or 59 minutes, 54 seconds.

@topspin said in C&C Remastered Pre-Order?: @Applied-Mediocrity probably a harvester somewhere in the corner of the map, or some shit like that. Hi there, DenverCoder9

But I didn't even know you had an IMDb rating.

The election results involved upsets on both fronts! On ANI, the Southeast/south Asian bloc voted in droves for their preferred candidate (while the front runners ended up ostensibly splitting the vote): And on BCU, the sole candidate failed where even African dictators succeed with a grand total of 0%! Most likely, everyone assumed he was going to win and thus nobody voted for him. Thus, the GM intervened and appointed him to the position, and he sent a thankful nation mail: And he's already put together an administration. ANI's new leader has yet to even appoint his subleads. ANI won NCP this past month, but the nation is not off to a great start. Will ANI's new leadership rise to the occasion and deliver another victorious month?

@MrL said in Escape From Tarkov: you can't put on two helmets, obviously "A-ha-ha! You are as PRESUMPTUOUS as you are POOR and POLISH. Tarnish notte the majesty of my TOWER of HATS."

@Zecc said in You can pet dogs in the new Terraria update: My memory's hazy, but wasn't World of Goo famous for something related to how it was distributed? Perusing the wikipedia page, it might have been because of the lack of DRM. IIRC, they also found ~90% of games reporting in to the leaderboard in the early days were pirated. @remi said in You can pet dogs in the new Terraria update: But really, I frankly don't remember what drove a semi-impulse buy decision 10 years ago! I got it in Humble Indie Bundle 2; I think I wanted Braid and they threw in the games from the first Humble Indie Bundle. I know I played through it, but that's not reflected in my Steam play time.

Not for a couple years. I'm not a fan of KoTH games where the action is minutes apart. But in their defense, at least they've managed to innovate a new genre to break the stranglehold of a certain other genre where players control a single character with RTS controls and enjoy the characteristic deterministic lockstep roundtrip latency.

@Gąska said in Half-Life: Alyx: @hungrier said in Half-Life: Alyx: @Carnage said in Half-Life: Alyx: And a glove controller or two. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEkrWRHCDQU

@Dragoon people are freaking out about the fossil changes, and ancient orbs just lost a lot of the top end from their value. The economy is going to go crazy this time. I recommend watching for Luna Wolve's Chaos Report in a day or two. That series is awesome for people who need that kind of data.

@SlackerD said in The Perplexing Complexity of Failure, a local dwarven government: Dwarf Fortress on Steam The deepest, most intricate simulation of a world that's ever been created. The legendary Dwarf Fortress is now on Steam. Build a fortress and try to help your dwarves survive against a deeply generated world. I wonder if @ben_lubar has heard of this yet. you wonder if I've heard about the Steam release of a game I did a 3 hour XML editing stream of?

@brie said in ✎: @Watson You spelled it wrong... I fixed it for him:

Finished it. Letters on the outside of the puzzle should replace the black squares they are next to (I guessed wrong for 1 across).

@asad-asdd ok i found the solution. forget about the region ID, look at what reading Id the change in 1000 happened for that region. then all the char form a String. if you need more tips letme know

I work up quite a sweat playing Expert level drums on Rock Band.

@acrow said in Games with unkillable co-op sidekick?: Rayman Origins and Rayman Legends. Not entirely impossible to hinder gameplay, but you should be okay for the most part. I'll check those out. Thanks. FYI: Rayman Legends includes levels from Origins, so you don't necessarily have to buy both.

@Watson Boom.

@Vixen said in How random are you?: @_P_ said in How random are you?: You know you can just read the source code to see their "advanced algorithms", right? That would have required effort, also actually visiting the quiz page. It was WAY simpler to simulate a Monte Carlo style test assuming both user and bot played as perfectly randomly as Math.Random() could provide. Plus this was more about figuring out how to make the histogram output and get the statistics about the various runs. I should probably revisit this to see if i can calculate the parameters to the specific binomial distribution in play here... or calculate thinks like the 50% confidence window, the 80% confidence window, stuff like that. also I know i can do the stats without needing that intermediate flattened result array. but i gotta think about how to make that work. Sure i've got work I should be doing instead, but this is more fun! I wrote a real-time histogram visualization tool in JS to test the RNG functions for my roguelike. It updates the histogram at 60FPS! And, at the time, I was obsessed with custom parameterized distributions. And by was, I mean I could fall back down that rabbithole at any time.

: Hilltop 9 ­/''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''0 ­)The horizon is lost in the glare of morning upon the Great ( ­)Sea. You shield your eyes to sweep the shore below, where ( $ ­)a village lies nestled beside a quiet cove. ( D8A ­) A stunted oak tree shades the inland road. ( :6=& ­) ( ?7B ­) ( ­) ( ­) ( ­) ( ­.&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&1 ­ ­Hilltop ­ ­> [enter] ­[The word "[enter]" isn't in the vocabulary that you can use.] ­ ­>

And like a phoenix, rising from the ashes, Telltale appears to be "coming back": Colin Campbell  /  Aug 28, 2019 Telltale Games is being revived A new attempt to relaunch the episodic adventure company Well, kinda. As far as the article tells, the Telltale name and its catalog were acquired by a new company which is supposedly going to be trying to start back up. The "old company" is still dealing with the lawsuits. And a bunch of Twitter shitters are dumping all over it because they either: Think it's the same owners and staff relaunching the company; Balk that what is effectively a startup at this point is wanting to bring the old employees back on freelance contracts that may lead into full time employment; Think that everyone everywhere should unionize.

@DreamBoy wrong button, silly! Also, welcome to the forums?

Actually, what about variants that isn't complicated at all? For example: Chess Golf: Checkmate your opponent while keeping the most amount of material on the board. Chess Bowling: If you checkmate your opponent before capturing all their pieces, you lose. The only way to win is to checkmate them after capturing all their pieces.

@error @error_bot !xkcd wrong on the internet

@Weng said in problem moding a psp E1004 STREET: ... did you people actually reply honestly to spam? It felt good to relax out of form for a while.

@dfdub I was thinking of the lazy console-to-PC ports that just don't bother refreshing the textures. But you're right, it was wishful thinking.

FFS. It didn't happen when I was here.

@PleegWat said in League of Maidens: @Groaner said in League of Maidens: These look like reasonable tiers It's cheaper to buy 1k twice than to buy 2k once? Good catch. I'll pass that on to the devs.

@Cursorkeys said in Ec vs Non-Ec: @topspin said in Ec vs Non-Ec: @Cursorkeys said in Ec vs Non-Ec: @mikehurley said in Ec vs Non-Ec: Should we know what this means? Euclidean obviously, if the geometry of your post is hyperbolic then you need Non-Ec I’m posting from a sphere, what do I use? You can project your n-sphere into hyperbolic space! If you like that sort of thing... The kink thread is

@admiral_p LSD, for a lie can run around the world before the truth has got its boots on. Is this post Ec?

I don't think it necessarily ruins it. Say, bricks falling on you when hit, leading to a controlled demolition or until the structural integrity of the ceiling is compromised? Also, has been done. There's a shitty Flash game, at least. But I refuse to consider it on the grounds that it's a shitty Flash game.

I successfully OOMed on Odyssey's Metro Kingdom.

@Cursorkeys said in Brexit Bus: @blek said in Brexit Bus: gamephysics Is a bit special, I managed to get a month behind the start line by backflipping I guess I should stop my attempts at doing this then...

Exapunks.

@anonymous234 Landwirtschaft

@pie_flavor said in ⎕ ⎕ ⎕ ⎕ ⎕ ⎕ ⎕ ⎕ ⎕: I'm surprised that there aren't any real regex competitors out there. We use a homegrown alternative in our ruling engine. It is much more limited, but since it is part of a rules engine which has a goto construct it ends up being more powerful in practice.

@kazitor said in Remote Games: @kazitor said in Remote Games: [this is pretty cool! - bz] ITT: a mod is less lazy than a normal user Thanks for moving, I just supposed someone could make their own topic and quote the relevant bit if they were interested. It was a lot easier to use the "fork topic" widget and use your already written post than to track down the "New Post" button, etc, etc, etc.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsWwuaAS0Aw

@pie_flavor said in Anyone here play strategy games?: I'm not a giant fan of strategy because I don't play video games for the intellectual challenge, but to have fun. It's escapism, like fiction books. And the more required menus a game has, the harder it is to lose yourself in it. Strategy is a genre where it is almost nothing but menus. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPEdBQi-vFA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsJkATiUXSk Traditional RTS is quite campy pantomime nonsense. Especially with Command and Conquer. The GLA faction in General lets you "build a terrorist". There is noway they could get away with making this today. Sure there is Total War, but CA have gone down the less hardcore route (while alienating their fanbase).