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A: What purpose does an '-o' serve?

12:37 AM

@KitFox Did you read the OED entry first before posting? You list the same examples as they do, in the same order.

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I don’t think anybody quite knows. The OED gives four distinct types of these formations. They are wondering whether it has something to do with the O interjection with some reinforcement from similar words. They also note that it is nowhere more common than in Australia. The four different t...

Or perhaps you read something somewhere that had itself already cribbed from the OED; this happens a fair amount.

In particular boyo, bucko, kiddo.

2:20 AM

@KitFox D’oh! I forgot to check the OED3. They now seem much more certain of the origins than in OED2. No more citations, but lots of very fine print discussion.

Hello!

I am logged in my mobile!

Scarrry!

Best stick to 1960s-style text then.

How does one do that?

I am lying in bed in the country house.

Only ASCII.

So, you are in a city house then?

Or you aren’t in bed?

@RegDwightАΑA and if you call it a font instead of a typeface... :P

2:24 AM

Haha.

considers how to break through the Liar’s Paradox

I always speak the truth.

Where did the merry-go-round go?

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A: What does "go pop" mean?

"Go pop" could mean many different things. We'd really need a little more context. However, it sounds like the speaker is on a bus or commuter train and is anxious to get to the door through the crowd, or else s/he may "go pop." It probably means something like "explode" or "give out" but it is c...

He looks too much like me.

There's the truth paradox for you.

@KitFox Day-o a children's song!

2:26 AM

You’re lying in a bed of soft needles in the forest dark.

There I would be lying, yes.

What doesn’t this chat play ᴀᴅᴠᴇɴᴛᴜʀᴇ?

I see N R in small capitals.

ADVENTURE.

Colossal Cave Adventure

Colossal Cave Adventure (also known as ADVENT, Colossal Cave, or Adventure) gave its name to the computer adventure game genre. It was originally designed by Will Crowther, a programmer and caving enthusiast who based the layout on part of the Mammoth Cave system in Kentucky. The Colossal Cave subnetwork has many entrances, one of which is known as Bedquilt. Crowther reproduced portions of the real cave so faithfully that cavers who have played the game can easily navigate through familiar sections in the Bedquilt region on their first visit. History Will Crowther was a programmer a...

@tchrist and no bosses.

2:29 AM

Rubbing the electric lamp is not particularly rewarding. Anyway, nothing exciting happens

That sounds familiar.

I never get anything outta mine, either.

@cornbreadninja Some versions of Rogue had fancy-pants bits at the lowest levels.

Rogue (video game)

Rogue is a dungeon crawling video game first developed by Michael Toy and Glenn Wichman around 1980. It was a favorite on college Unix systems in the early to mid-1980s, in part due to the procedural generation of game content. Rogue popularized dungeon crawling as a video game trope, leading others to develop a class of derivatives known collectively as "roguelikes". For example, it directly inspired Hack, which in turn led to NetHack. Roguelikes have since influenced commercial games outside the genre, such as Diablo. Gameplay In Rogue, the player assumes the typical role of an adventur...

I have played Multi-dimensional Thief.

It uses vi movement commands.

grooves to Day-o

@tchrist sweet

2:31 AM

Fun text adventure.

Adventure was a text game. Rogue was a video game for vt100s.

The zenith was probably NetHack.

NetHack

NetHack is a single-player roguelike video game originally released in 1987. It is a descendant of an earlier game called Hack (), which is a descendant of Rogue (). NetHack is licensed under the NetHack General Public License. The "net" element references the fact that its development was coordinated through Usenet, even before the internet existed in its present form. The "hack" element refers to the game it was based on, Hack. The player takes the part of a dungeon-delving character in search of the Amulet of Yendor. __TOC__ # History of NetHack # Source: http://www.spod-central.org/~...

Moving was just nesw.

never eat soggy waffles.

That makes no sense for moving!

You need to have a group of keys where you have the left key go left, the right key go right, etc. The one to the up-left of the base set goes up-left, etc.

@tchrist not moving and also eating Cheetos, that's fer sure.

2:34 AM

And yet these are traditional. U and d also worked in the right situations.

Well, yes.

What is traditional? news? Naw.

You needed to press enter after each key anyway.

That's horrid.

That's not a video game, it's a text game.

Which can still be fun.

To win the game, the player must retrieve the Amulet of Yendor, found at the lowest level of the dungeon, and offer it to his or her deity. Successful completion of this task rewards the player with the gift of immortality, and the player is said to "ascend", attaining the status of demigod. In addition, a number of sub-quests must be completed, including one class-specific quest.

The player's character is, unless manually specified otherwise, accompanied by a pet animal, typically a kitten or little dog, although knights begin with a saddled pony.[11] Pets grow from fighting, and they can…

Wasd doesn't make sense in a text adventure.

You mustn’t kick your dog.

Or eat him.

2:38 AM

Of course it is a text game. What else could a text adventure be?

But it is bed time. Literally.

Indeed.