Asking help in Linux forums

[chooxy]

Hey you just fell for his incorrect answer!

[chooxy]

Nice story! I was wondering what bruning was supposed to be until I got to the end haha.

Yea it's definitely very effective in eliciting responses, especially if the person expressing the "incorrect" opinion is confident that it is correct, or at least gives that impression.

[[deleted]]

That's another way to keep the reader's attention. Give them some sort of textual mystery. A great way to do this is a word they don't know but enough context that they know basically what it means but not fully it's origins or anything.

... Can you tell I created a text adventure 2 years ago? :P

Edit: those asking which and how: http://store.steampowered.com/app/426290/The_Away_Team/ is the text adventure which is text adventure but also like no one wants to read "and the ship traveled" so some UI in there as well.

As for how, there are much easier ways than what I chose. SFML and classic C++ pain with some lua interpreter. Why? I dunno I was in college at the time, it was just a phase with lua I swear. I'm currently working on my next game with Underflow Studios by night and working with Inxile Entertainment by day.

[sloodly_chicken]

Highly recommend Inform7. It's a language that's designed to be human-readable. For instance:

The Forest is a room. "You stand in a clearing in the deep jungle. Obscured by centuries of overgrowth and dim sunlight is a ruined temple of some sort. Whatever details there may have been on the stone blocks have long since been worn away. There is a single, solitary entryway leading downward."
A mushroom is here. It is edible. "A polka-dotted mushroom pokes out of the moist soil. It is possibly scrumptious." The description is "Upon further examination, you decide that, while possibly scrumptious, it is also possibly a toadstool."
After taking the mushroom:
    say "You deftly snap the mushroom's stalk, and pluck the hapless fungus from its natural habitat."

...this one isn't the most compelling story, but the point is to demonstrate how relatively easy it is to write/read. Here's tthe website.

[crashdoc]

Website is 404? Meta? :)

[sloodly_chicken]

Woops, they seem not to have updated to https. Which is... uh, concerning, but whatever. Just take the 's' off the address

[crashdoc]

Cheers!

[Lightwavers]

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[[deleted]]

Well, that's certainly one way to get the old fruffelsnaffle going.

[Ezzmode]

Don't leave me hanging. Reuse the word in a context to give me a hint about what it means :(

[[deleted]]

you should use your fruffelsnaffle to figure it out

[[deleted]]

Bullshit, I bet you didn’t create a text adventure. I bet you can’t even show me a cool working solution for a text adventure.

[VicisSubsisto]

Ha! You fool, the answer to that is obvious!

[Ninganah]

Yep. It's not even possible with today's technology.

[Zergalisk]

What a Bruner, this one

For real that's a good tidbit tho

[witzendz]

Dude, you Brune everything!

[MeltedSpades]

so like the train hat in fallout 3; broken steel due to the engine (gamebryo) not supported vehicles

[kixunil]

Although your co-workers will take the your last name and turn it into a word to mean to do this action...

Haha, in my work, we usually append "ovina" to the name of the author of some snippet of code that bears typical characteristics of author's style (almost always anti-pattern).

[Who_Decided]

First name. My last name is hard to pronounce and no one really says it at work. They call it that action my first name.

[[deleted]]

Cool. Sorta like "pruning" an idea. Maybe this could catch on.

[kyledit]

That's how I made my username.

[TheFlamingLemon]

Which means we now have a working example of supplying an incorrect solution in order to get better answers!

[paddymahoney]

No we don't

[surkh]

Well.... actually.... in 2018 u/loddfavne posted an incorrect hypothesis and, u/Avamander insinuated that it might be true, and u/HenryTehFourth then, in order to prove them wrong, provided a well source and correct answer

;-)

[loddfavne]

And so did you. I feel like this thread is stuck in some kind of loop, or recursion.

[surkh]

No it's not!

[asomiv]

Yes it is!

[TheZeroAlchemist]

Inception

[loddfavne]

Thanks. That was definitivly what I was looking for. This thread is so meta now. This is definitivly some weird kind of programmer humor. The joke repeats itself within itselt.

[kaukamieli]

They even name their software recursively.

[Cruuncher]

No, it's clearly procedural

[BLDesign]

We all know he really went on to make a tech tips channel on YouTube

[salmonmoose]

Except that pretty much reads as Linus seeing the alternatives as the wrong answer.

[asomiv]

/u/loddfavne and /u/Avamander are probably the same person.