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Re: Now that we have a range of pictures...some thoughts...
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Tue, 18 Sep 2001 18:45:31 GMT
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In lugnet.harrypotter, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Richard Noeckel writes:
> > > In lugnet.harrypotter, Matthew Gerber writes:
> > > > In lugnet.harrypotter, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> >
> > > > all different, and now there's a dwarf throwing an ax...
> >
> > > Actually, in the interest of lack of imagination, I let the eye-biting
> > > monkey sit down at the keyboard, and...well, you know how he is...
> >
> >
> > O.k. so I'm familiar with the ‘Eye-bitin’ Monkey!’
> > (Cause he’s a facet of my delusionary schizophrenic psyche.)
> >
> >
> > But what’s going on with this “ dwarf throwing an ax” who can “disappear
> > into a cloud of greasy black smoke...”
> >
> > What’s that?!?
>
> Ah, the youth of the world... This is a reference to the granddaddy of all
> computer RPG games: 'advent'. This game possibly predates your birth, it's a
> text adventure and it first ran on mainframes, although it was ported
> *everywhere* (1). The game Zork from Infocom supposedly is an outgrowth of
> it, IIRC.
>
> http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/jargon.html#ADVENT (start at the jargon
> file for anything hackish..)
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> http://www.rickadams.org/adventure/ (semioffical appearing, well indexed)
> http://www.rickadams.org/adventure/a_history.html (good history)
> http://www.gamespy.com/articles/january01/muds1/index4.shtm
> http://members.nbci.com/Cybrnaut/advent/history.htm
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> (the above is by no means a complete reference, this game is in CompSci
> folklore and lots of pages are out there)
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> So, what's this about eye biting monkeys? I need a little help on that one.
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> FUT o-t.fun, dunno why HP keeps getting included.
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> 1 - I first played it on the Univac 1100/80 at MTU. Although I have also
> played it on the Commodore PET, the TRS/80 Model I, the original IBM PC
> (floppy only) and on various VAXen and VM systems.
MAN LARRY! YOU *ARE* DATING YOURSELF! YOU ARE *OLD*! 8?D
Seriously, I figured he was talking about Gauntlet, at the most...
"The wizard needs food!"
Hee-hee!
Matt
(Oh! the rabid eye-biting monkey makes his first appearence here:
http://news.lugnet.com/harrypotter/?n=66 . The blame rests solely on Richard
for this particular running gag...)
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