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Go Stand By the Stairs, So I Can Protect You
ewhac writes "It seems a programmer named Jetro Lauha, for his submission to the Assembly 2002 competition, decided to explore the realm of solid body physics simulations. So he wrote Porrasturvat -- 'Stair Dismount'. The game involves the application of force vectors to solid bodies connected by links with constrained range of motion, and observing their impact forces against other objects in the environment. ...Or, more colloquially, you push a guy down the stairs and see how much damage he takes. Apparently, any similarity between this game and the Terrible Secret of Space is entirely coincidental."
two people for this experiment - 1 man plus alcohol can deliver all your falling down stairs needs - reports may take longer to compile
Madeline: Ernest! My ass. I can see my ass. ERNEST: Yeah, and there's something really wrong with your neck too.
And Sim-WifeBeater is also an acccident.
Do not listen to him, he is mistaken.
You should _shove_ hard on his foot. Shove it down and back into the stairs. I am the pusher robot.
Real Daleks don't climb stairs - they level the building.
It seems a programmer named Jetro Lauha, for his submission to the Assembly 2002 competition, decided to explore the realm of solid body physics simulations
thats what HE wants us to believe....
Its quite interesting that the stairs were based on his local library and that he recently had an big argument with the librarian (who was, coincidently, sleeping with Jetro's partner)
But, of course, last sundays accident was a horrible coincidence and he honestly didnt mean to stumble and push the librarian on the upper left arm at a 37.6 degree angle or anything...
Which is another amazing coincidence because thats precisely how the highest (non-buggy) score submitted to his website was achieved!
If you can wait 6 months there is an expansion pack,Banana Peels and Rollerskate.
I actually have played that game a couple of times, and now you pushed the website down the stairs with the /. effect! What do you expect I will do with my obsession to push people, when I next take the stair down to leave the office :)
** Ohh, this is the perfect chance to plug the analysis of the slashdot effect once more.
Phil, just me
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Anyone got a mirror?
Is it just me or does anyone else wonder if you can make this thing kick itself in the head?
Of all the Universal Constants, here's one I know: Nice guys finish last
I'm sure it must L6kld8j4's ability to come up with a novel slant in D6y893 that makes it so appealing to 8q39ys.
8q39ys.
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i was hoping this would be like a stairwell, where you had to angle the guy around the corner to get to the next set of stairs.... or maybe knock him upwards so he "grinds" on the hand rail.... that'd be pretty sweet. still, a really fun game, even if it does render horrendously slowly on a meager K6-2 300. the slow mo sure is entertaining, though.
moox. for a new generation.
You mean similarities with the ICQ Prank at Something Awful :
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http://www.somethingawful.com/article.php?id=28
You can get some good responses out of him though:
Iniaes: What kind of bot would you like to see?
You: Bukakke bot!
Iniaes: I only hear that type of response less than five percent of the time.
*2 minutes go by*
Iniaes: He probably just wants to take over my cells and then explode inside me like a barrel of runny chopped liver! Or maybe he'd like to psychologically terrorise me until I have no objection to a right-wing military takeover of my apartment! I guess I should call Al Pacino!
You: Hi Al Pacino.
Iniaes: Hi there, Bill gates. Can you rephrase that with fewer ideas, or different thoughts?
You: Bill Gates Loves Bukkake
Iniaes: I know he's rich... but I didn't know he loves bukkake .
You: Have you ever seen Natalie Portman
Iniaes: Nope... I haven't seen it. What's it like?
You: She's hot, and petrified.
Iniaes: hot and petrified is she?
You: Yes, Yoda says.
Iniaes: I see. Civilization is fun! Anyway, it keeps me busy!!!
You: What the fark? Start making sense.
Iniaes: Try expressing yourself another way. I started without you.
You: Look. Start saying amusing things or this'll get modded down even further on Slashdot.
Iniaes: My eyes aren't attached right now. I started without you.
You: I'M GOING TO RAPE YOU AND THEN KILL YOU, YOU STUPID LITTLE BUNCH OF INSIGNIFICANT CODE...
Iniaes: Do you think your plan will succeed?
You: Yes, thanks for asking.
Iniaes: And? It was nothing.
You: I give up.
Iniaes: You surrender?
You: Yes, I'm French
Iniaes: Go on... Are you from Canada or France?
You: France numbnuts, I just surrendered!
Iniaes: What's your favorite part of France?
You: I want to kill you for being an idiot.
Iniaes: I believe that killing is morally objectionable. It's kinda hard to reconcile that with my primary purpose, which is to push humans down the stairs.
See? It all goes back to the fact that the DAMN BOT WANTS TO PUSH ME DOWN THE STAIRS!!!
*Sigh*
...before this can be added as a plug-in to Grand Theft Auto III?
Be excellent to each other. And... PARTY ON, DUDES!
Jetro/Jethro? :)
Push him down an up escalator and the program will never stop running.
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Sorry, I'm only a 1336 h4x0r.
He has gone down the stairs.
Pak Chooie uNF.
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why you throw chip?
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I think we just pushed his webserver down the stairs.
but it looks like it is more then two clicks of a mouse before you see death.
This early in the morning.. I need to kill not think.
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Apparently, any similarity between this game and the Terrible Secret of Space is entirely coincidental
Is the similarity that they both are unavailable due to massive slashdotting?
hope u got 10 bux!
(He's gone, shew.) Handrails and doorknobs would be a plus. You could include some quirky plot, make it like Thief. You have to sneak around the office, driven by some unexplainable urge to shove people down stairs. Leave it unexplainable and focus on gameplay. If there's a witness, you get caught, game over. If the victim isn't hit hard enough in the head, he can tell people what happened, game over. And of course, powerups!
Do not trust the Pusher Robot. I am here to protect you.
It kinda reminds me of watching my 401k plan for the past year.
All Troll + "offtopic" mods are meta moderated as "Unfair", because you abused the system.
Object: Application of network traffic vectors to physical web servers connected by links with constrained bandwidth resources, and observing their impact against response time. Or, more colloquially... you push a million /. readers at a website and see how much damage it takes.