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Gitionary: the Git Party Game

Posted by Soulskill on from the version-control-for-the-whole-family dept.

sdasher writes "Finally, there's a chance to combine your love of version control and parties: Gitionary. The brainchild of two MIT alums, it's a party game where you try to illustrate git commands. A set of gitionary cards (PDF) has been posted as well. Personally, I'm still holding out for the Debugging Python RPG."

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  1. Just what me need... by Locke2005 · · Score: 1

    A party game for gits!

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    1. Re:Just what me need... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      heh, I wonder if people making open source ever what their names mean and how marketable it is. GIMP is another good example.

      Linus knew full well what it means.

    2. Re:Just what me need... by Barny · · Score: 1

      Yay, the first person to link to something that tells me what GIT is.

      Here I was thinking they were all excited about a windows based inform script player...

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  2. Re:FFS by tycoex · · Score: 1

    Nerds like xkcd.

  3. Re:So much fun! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    It's because of people like you that I will never find a Gitionary game partner. Thanks asshole.

  4. Re:FFS by telekon · · Score: 4, Informative

    Clearly, you've never used git. There are over 9000 commands.

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  5. Gitmo torture techniques? by rjejr · · Score: 2

    This sounded really fun when I thought it was about acting about Gitmo torture techniques. I was getting ready to invite over the in-laws.

    1. Re:Gitmo torture techniques? by Compaqt · · Score: 1

      The commands are so complicated that you need a game to be able to memorize them?

      It's stuff like this that makes you just want to stick with good old SVN.

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  6. Re:So much fun! by mystik · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Did you RTFA? Did you notice that the *creator* of said game is girl named Elizabeth Denys? A real live girl?

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  7. Re:FFS by Ragzouken · · Score: 1

    And they are all raping children.

  8. I first read the last sentence of the summary... by John+Hasler · · Score: 1

    ...as meaning that he wanted to see an illustration of that.

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  9. Re:yes and no by Yvanhoe · · Score: 2

    Except the girl that is the author of that maybe ? http://blog.lizdenys.com/about/

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  10. wow, a year late by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    Note the original post is from 2010/03/08
    Classic Slashdot.

  11. Re:So much fun! by ItsJustAPseudonym · · Score: 1

    Hmm. Is it just me, or does anyone else regard the combination of real_live_girl + ultimately_nerdy_party_game as analogous to the discovery of the Theory Of Everything?

  12. Re:So much fun! by Ihmhi · · Score: 1

    Oh wow. I read TFL and there was a gem buried in there:

    Some YouTube Comment: "What’s the matter with abortion groups? Why are they so linked to sex crimes and perversion?”

    We may be falling behind in education, healthcare and countless other areas, but at least we’re still miles ahead of anyone else in hyperbole. USA! USA!

    I lol'd.

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  13. Re:So much fun! by mystik · · Score: 1

    http://blog.lizdenys.com/about/

    Delivered :)

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  14. Re:So much fun! by Runaway1956 · · Score: 1

    Cute. She looks embarrassed about something, or she has some of those red-faced lushes in her ancestry . . .

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  15. Re:So much fun! by stealth_finger · · Score: 1

    .. or what about if we would just even once leave the nerd stuff behind and, I don't know, talk with girls? Maybe even have sex with them? It's not going to hurt you..

    Sure, if you can get any girls to your parties.

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  16. Re:yes and no by Jesus_666 · · Score: 1

    She might be heterosexual so it might not be an issue for her.

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  17. Re:FFS by Mindcontrolled · · Score: 1

    The slashdot hivemind likes xkcd. Munroe ceased to be funny or insightful years ago. Dead stick figures walking. It's been crap for ages.

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  18. Re:So much fun! by MaskedSlacker · · Score: 1

    Restraining order.

  19. Re:FFS by x*yy*x · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I have the same feeling. Now I usually just skip it completely in my rss reader, but when I happen to check it, it's still crap.

  20. Re:FFS by supersloshy · · Score: 1

    WHAT 9000!? -Nappa

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  21. Re:Problem solved... by mevets · · Score: 1

    First its not a card; it just is. Superior, to me, seems pejorative. Superior doesn't really exist in my world view. Being ridiculous, however does exist in my world.

    Maybe I'm not very good at being a "fan", but I doubt that even amongst the most diehard snap-on fanatics, I would find three that thought a "snap-on trivia" game would be more than laughable.

    Anybody that over-attributes a simple tool into an alpha-geek contest, or worse "love", has a problem with not being able to see outside the micro world of their creation; thus micro-brained.

    So, superior, no; inferior is in the eye of the beholder.

    By the way: WHOOSH!

  22. Gitionary by lsatenstein · · Score: 1

    What rhymes with gluttany? Glittany. It would have been more interesting if the name was Glitany.

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  23. Just kill me now by clickclickdrone · · Score: 1

    It's stuff like this that makes me embarassed to work in IT. We all have enough of a geeky reputation as it is and working as I do in a large financial organisation, we're slowly getting to the point that business people see us as peers. However, anything like this just makes us look like overgrown children and sets everything back a decade. Sorry to be a bit bah-humbug but really...

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    1. Re:Just kill me now by tehcyder · · Score: 1

      working as I do in a large financial organisation, we're slowly getting to the point that business people see us as peers.

      That's just what we tell you to make you work harder.

      Signed, a business person.

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