Talk:91: Pwned - Revision history

42.book.addict at 19:05, 18 September 2025

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162.158.74.24 at 00:48, 1 December 2023

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172.71.158.22: I stand with Israel

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I stand with Israel

TCMits: edited comment

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edited comment

TCMits: added to the discussion

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added to the discussion

172.70.98.37 at 01:23, 17 October 2021

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172.69.34.221 at 01:22, 17 October 2021

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Condor70 at 14:41, 1 April 2020

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Pelosujamo: compatibility

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compatibility

Davidy22 at 09:37, 15 September 2016

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-[[User:Rikthoff|Rikthoff]] ([[User talk:Rikthoff|talk]]) Does anybody know why this comic is stored in Portable Graphic Format (PNG) instead of JPEG? Is this an inside joke? <small> --  12:29, 3 August 2012‎ (UTC)</small>
+Does anybody know why this comic is stored in Portable Graphic Format (PNG) instead of JPEG? Is this an inside joke? <small> --[[User:Rikthoff|Rikthoff]] ([[User talk:Rikthoff|talk]]) 12:29, 3 August 2012‎ (UTC)</small>
 Guest: An alternate way to look at this uses the same three cultural acknowledgements, but with a little more of thoughtful understanding.  The grue lies in wait in the dark and devours the player, and likewise a 'camper' player in CS would wait for a player and kill them upon entry.  It can be looked at that the blindness of entering the room that the camper kills the player at is comparable to the darkness that the grue eats the player from.  All-in-all this amounts to a frustrating experience of dying in a game, and so a correlation is drawn.  Because they seem to be similar frustrations, in which the only effective difference is whether you read it or see it, the text thus implies that there is no actual leverage that makes graphical games favored.
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 It's not worth changing the description, as it's not relevant to the context, but Zork was ''not'' "typical" because it could understand more complex commands than most other (non-{{w|Infocom}}) text adventures, like "kill the troll with the axe". [[User:Markhurd|Mark Hurd]] ([[User talk:Markhurd|talk]]) 12:33, 13 April 2013 (UTC)
 You know, it's not just (standard) processor and memory improvements that led to graphical games but (unsurprisingly) actual graphical capability...  Text-based games (including MUDs) could be played on anything, even text-only terminals and over telnet connections and the like.  Graphical capabilities beyond CGA (which limits us to ASCII-art or 'ASCII-shaded' depictions of things, in leiu of sticking to text-only descriptions) allowed a progression to FPS-ish, via the likes of graphical tile-based games (although see Dwarf Fortress as a game that could have been text-only in its tile-ness, albeit that even the vanilla character-based display is ''implemented'' with graphics of said characters), and even if it was EGA you ''could'' now get graphics, and have to start worrying about whether you could calculate the image quickly enough to start looking at pre-Dooms, especially when you don't yet ''necessarily'' have anything approximating a separate GPU and graphics RAM... Which is much as originally said, but... ;)

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	I was never into adventure games. Rocket-Propelled Grenades - now that sounds like it could be fun! [[User:TCMits\|TCMits]] ([[User talk:TCMits\|talk]]) 17:12, 16 August 2022 (UTC)		I was never into adventure games. Rocket-Propelled Grenades - now that sounds like it could be fun! [[User:TCMits\|TCMits]] ([[User talk:TCMits\|talk]]) 17:12, 16 August 2022 (UTC)

−	Am I the only one that picked up on Randall poking fun at explainxkcd with this one? Obviously an explanation of the comic would lead to "a discussion of the reason for the disappearance of adventure games in favor of RPGs," which is rather fascinating. Some kind of meta-humor here.	+	Am I the only one that picked up on Randall poking fun at explainxkcd with this one? Obviously an explanation of the comic would lead to "a discussion of the reason for the disappearance of adventure games in favor of RPGs," which is rather fascinating. Some kind of meta-humor here. {{unsigned ip\|172.71.158.22\|00:30, 1 December 2023}}
		+	:...the above comic came out in 2006. The Explainxkcd site can be found to have been started in 2012 (going by the earliest created user accounts - and I think I was IP-editing on here within a year or two). The now-defunct, but separate, Forums/Fora ''might'' have created early enough to have been the target, but I can't easily confirm that bit of history. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.74.24\|162.158.74.24]] 00:48, 1 December 2023 (UTC)

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	I was never into adventure games. Rocket-Propelled Grenades - now that sounds like it could be fun! [[User:TCMits\|TCMits]] ([[User talk:TCMits\|talk]]) 17:12, 16 August 2022 (UTC)		I was never into adventure games. Rocket-Propelled Grenades - now that sounds like it could be fun! [[User:TCMits\|TCMits]] ([[User talk:TCMits\|talk]]) 17:12, 16 August 2022 (UTC)
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		+	Am I the only one that picked up on Randall poking fun at explainxkcd with this one? Obviously an explanation of the comic would lead to "a discussion of the reason for the disappearance of adventure games in favor of RPGs," which is rather fascinating. Some kind of meta-humor here.

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	::Those computers certainly are not too new. I played Zork and many other Infocom text adventures on my Commodore 64, and I'm sure far more people played them on the C-64 and the IBM-XT than could have possibly played them on the DEC PDP-10 mainframe. A big part of the success of the Infocom text adventures is that they could be ported to everything that could run them at the time, and so they were.[[Special:Contributions/172.70.98.37\|172.70.98.37]] 01:23, 17 October 2021 (UTC)		::Those computers certainly are not too new. I played Zork and many other Infocom text adventures on my Commodore 64, and I'm sure far more people played them on the C-64 and the IBM-XT than could have possibly played them on the DEC PDP-10 mainframe. A big part of the success of the Infocom text adventures is that they could be ported to everything that could run them at the time, and so they were.[[Special:Contributions/172.70.98.37\|172.70.98.37]] 01:23, 17 October 2021 (UTC)

−	I was never into ~~action~~ games. Rocket-Propelled Grenades - now that sounds like it could be fun! [[User:TCMits\|TCMits]] ([[User talk:TCMits\|talk]]) 17:12, 16 August 2022 (UTC)	+	I was never into adventure games. Rocket-Propelled Grenades - now that sounds like it could be fun! [[User:TCMits\|TCMits]] ([[User talk:TCMits\|talk]]) 17:12, 16 August 2022 (UTC)

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	The computers mentioned (IBM-XT, Atari, or C64) are too new. Zork was originally written for a DEC PDP-10 and ported to several other text-only computers. [[User:Condor70\|Condor70]] ([[User talk:Condor70\|talk]]) 14:41, 1 April 2020 (UTC)		The computers mentioned (IBM-XT, Atari, or C64) are too new. Zork was originally written for a DEC PDP-10 and ported to several other text-only computers. [[User:Condor70\|Condor70]] ([[User talk:Condor70\|talk]]) 14:41, 1 April 2020 (UTC)
	::Those computers certainly are not too new. I played Zork and many other Infocom text adventures on my Commodore 64, and I'm sure far more people played them on the C-64 and the IBM-XT than could have possibly played them on the DEC PDP-10 mainframe. A big part of the success of the Infocom text adventures is that they could be ported to everything that could run them at the time, and so they were.[[Special:Contributions/172.70.98.37\|172.70.98.37]] 01:23, 17 October 2021 (UTC)		::Those computers certainly are not too new. I played Zork and many other Infocom text adventures on my Commodore 64, and I'm sure far more people played them on the C-64 and the IBM-XT than could have possibly played them on the DEC PDP-10 mainframe. A big part of the success of the Infocom text adventures is that they could be ported to everything that could run them at the time, and so they were.[[Special:Contributions/172.70.98.37\|172.70.98.37]] 01:23, 17 October 2021 (UTC)
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		+	I was never into action games. Rocket-Propelled Grenades - now that sounds like it could be fun! [[User:TCMits\|TCMits]] ([[User talk:TCMits\|talk]]) 17:12, 16 August 2022 (UTC)

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	The computers mentioned (IBM-XT, Atari, or C64) are too new. Zork was originally written for a DEC PDP-10 and ported to several other text-only computers. [[User:Condor70\|Condor70]] ([[User talk:Condor70\|talk]]) 14:41, 1 April 2020 (UTC)		The computers mentioned (IBM-XT, Atari, or C64) are too new. Zork was originally written for a DEC PDP-10 and ported to several other text-only computers. [[User:Condor70\|Condor70]] ([[User talk:Condor70\|talk]]) 14:41, 1 April 2020 (UTC)
−	::Those computers certainly are not too new. I played Zork and many other Infocom text adventures on my Commodore 64, and I'm sure far more people played them on the C-64 and the IBM-XT than could have possibly played them on the DEC PDP-10 mainframe. A big part of the success of the Infocom text adventures is that they could be ported to everything that could run them at the time, and so they were.	+	::Those computers certainly are not too new. I played Zork and many other Infocom text adventures on my Commodore 64, and I'm sure far more people played them on the C-64 and the IBM-XT than could have possibly played them on the DEC PDP-10 mainframe. A big part of the success of the Infocom text adventures is that they could be ported to everything that could run them at the time, and so they were.[[Special:Contributions/172.70.98.37\|172.70.98.37]] 01:23, 17 October 2021 (UTC)

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	The computers mentioned (IBM-XT, Atari, or C64) are too new. Zork was originally written for a DEC PDP-10 and ported to several other text-only computers. [[User:Condor70\|Condor70]] ([[User talk:Condor70\|talk]]) 14:41, 1 April 2020 (UTC)		The computers mentioned (IBM-XT, Atari, or C64) are too new. Zork was originally written for a DEC PDP-10 and ported to several other text-only computers. [[User:Condor70\|Condor70]] ([[User talk:Condor70\|talk]]) 14:41, 1 April 2020 (UTC)
		+	::Those computers certainly are not too new. I played Zork and many other Infocom text adventures on my Commodore 64, and I'm sure far more people played them on the C-64 and the IBM-XT than could have possibly played them on the DEC PDP-10 mainframe. A big part of the success of the Infocom text adventures is that they could be ported to everything that could run them at the time, and so they were.

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	The RPG genre and the adventure game genre aren't mutually exclusive. Weren't the {{Wikipedia\|Quest for Glory}} games, for example, adventure games and RPGs at the same time? Wiki even describes them as hybrid adventure/role-playing games. [[User:Pelosujamo\|Pelosujamo]] ([[User talk:Pelosujamo\|talk]]) 16:14, 29 October 2018 (UTC)		The RPG genre and the adventure game genre aren't mutually exclusive. Weren't the {{Wikipedia\|Quest for Glory}} games, for example, adventure games and RPGs at the same time? Wiki even describes them as hybrid adventure/role-playing games. [[User:Pelosujamo\|Pelosujamo]] ([[User talk:Pelosujamo\|talk]]) 16:14, 29 October 2018 (UTC)
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		+	The computers mentioned (IBM-XT, Atari, or C64) are too new. Zork was originally written for a DEC PDP-10 and ported to several other text-only computers. [[User:Condor70\|Condor70]] ([[User talk:Condor70\|talk]]) 14:41, 1 April 2020 (UTC)

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	I know I'm going to sound like a grammar nazi for saying this, but to whoever put "it's subsequent sequel", it's "its" in this situation. Don't worry, i fixed it. --[[User:JayRulesXKCD\|JayRulesXKCD]] ([[User talk:JayRulesXKCD\|talk]]) 13:22, 14 September 2016 (UTC)		I know I'm going to sound like a grammar nazi for saying this, but to whoever put "it's subsequent sequel", it's "its" in this situation. Don't worry, i fixed it. --[[User:JayRulesXKCD\|JayRulesXKCD]] ([[User talk:JayRulesXKCD\|talk]]) 13:22, 14 September 2016 (UTC)
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		+	The RPG genre and the adventure game genre aren't mutually exclusive. Weren't the {{Wikipedia\|Quest for Glory}} games, for example, adventure games and RPGs at the same time? Wiki even describes them as hybrid adventure/role-playing games. [[User:Pelosujamo\|Pelosujamo]] ([[User talk:Pelosujamo\|talk]]) 16:14, 29 October 2018 (UTC)

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−	I know I'm going to sound like a grammar nazi for saying this, but to whoever put "it's subsequent sequel", it's "its" in this situation. Don't worry, i fixed it. --[[User:JayRulesXKCD\|JayRulesXKCD]] ([[User talk:JayRulesXKCD\|talk]]) 13:22, 14 September 2016 (UTC)
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	[[User:Rikthoff\|Rikthoff]] ([[User talk:Rikthoff\|talk]]) Does anybody know why this comic is stored in Portable Graphic Format (PNG) instead of JPEG? Is this an inside joke? <small> -- 12:29, 3 August 2012‎ (UTC)</small>		[[User:Rikthoff\|Rikthoff]] ([[User talk:Rikthoff\|talk]]) Does anybody know why this comic is stored in Portable Graphic Format (PNG) instead of JPEG? Is this an inside joke? <small> -- 12:29, 3 August 2012‎ (UTC)</small>

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	There is now a text-only CounterStrike, albiet with some ASCII art: http://csstory.net/ [[User:Pablo360\|Pablo360]] ([[User talk:Pablo360\|talk]]) 19:48, 16 February 2016 (UTC)		There is now a text-only CounterStrike, albiet with some ASCII art: http://csstory.net/ [[User:Pablo360\|Pablo360]] ([[User talk:Pablo360\|talk]]) 19:48, 16 February 2016 (UTC)
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		+	I know I'm going to sound like a grammar nazi for saying this, but to whoever put "it's subsequent sequel", it's "its" in this situation. Don't worry, i fixed it. --[[User:JayRulesXKCD\|JayRulesXKCD]] ([[User talk:JayRulesXKCD\|talk]]) 13:22, 14 September 2016 (UTC)