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Coding is a Text Adventure

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the whole-new-levels-of-addiction dept.

Wired News is running a story about a new approach to crossover working and gaming turning your coding into a MUD-style adventure. Playsh is a "narrative-driven 'object navigation' client, operating primarily on the semantic level, casting your hacking environment as a high-level, shell-based, social prototyping laboratory, a playground for recombinant network toys." Great, now they are combining two of the most horrible addictions in my life.

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  1. Wonderful by IflyRC · · Score: 5, Funny

    So the "Person" class is the main adventurer. While he is running through the tunnel to the mainframe lands, he hear's a request from someone calling themselves "User" that states he must first solve a puzzle for reformatting these characters to the one expected by the mainframe giants. 10/14/1999

    Later, our hero Person signs up for a banking account and pays his credit card bills using the AutoBillPay spell. Person is then kiilled by the surcharge monster.

  2. What fun! by Geldon · · Score: 5, Funny

    Unhandled Exception: You have been eaten by a grue.

  3. I always knew my job would turn out like this by greg1104 · · Score: 5, Funny

    You are in a maze of twisty subroutines, all alike. You may be eaten by a deadline.

  4. Re:I can just see it now... by Mayhem178 · · Score: 5, Funny

    No no no, you're doing it all wrong.....

    "INSERT INTO Door (Keyhole) VALUES ('KEY') WHERE Door.Locked = 1"

    "UPDATE Monster SET Monster.Dead = 1"

    "INSERT INTO Inventory (SELECT Loots FROM Monster WHERE Monster.IsDead = 1)"

    "UPDATE Princess SET Princess.Saved = 1"

    I win! That means...

    "SELECT Baby FROM Hero INNER JOIN Princess"

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    "You will pay for your lack of vision..." - Emperor Palpatine to Ray Charles

  5. Re:I can just see it now... by Doc_NH · · Score: 5, Funny

    "SELECT Baby FROM Hero INNER JOIN Princess"


    Am I the only one here that has never seen SQL porn before?

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    if vegetarians eat vegetables why are cannibals not humanitarians.
  6. Re:I can just see it now... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    would the join clause details be considered pornography?

    (the following contains pornographic material, viewer discretion is advised)

    SELECT Baby FROM Hero INNER JOIN Princess ON Hero.Sausage = Princess.Taco

    I suppose that wouldn't quite be right, since we all know that sausages do not equal tacos. Well... I suppose some people might be confused.
    Maybe it would be better written as

    INSERT INTO Princess (Taco) SELECT Sausage FROM Hero WHERE Hero.id = 'me'

    This also has the advantage of not producing a Baby result.

    Additionally, for those of you who don't have a Princess, you can create one by using the SELECT...INTO statement. But this method suggests transvestite/transgender properties, as explained below.
    SELECT Sausage INTO Princess FROM Hero WHERE Hero.id = 'me' (results in Princess having a Sausage, transvestite results)
    or
    SELECT Sausage AS Taco INTO Princess FROM Hero WHERE Hero.id = 'me' (results in Princess having a Taco, but you're calling your Sausage a Taco, transgender indications)