Ok…gonna date all of us here. My wife is sitting on the other end of the couch playing word games on her (my) iPad and when she gets stuck (angry) she hands it to me… last puzzle… r o u g e … r o g u e … m o r g u e … when I pointed out there was no " G R U E … disappointing… there should have been a Grue for bonus points!
… now … how many nerds?
Btw… all I got was a blank stare…
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rpegg
June 19, 2018, 12:30am
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Not admitting to anything. But you are likely to be eaten by a Grue. Though if I remember correctly it was lower case “grue”.
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I will admit nothing, and I believe all that information has been overwritten in my brain trying to remember all the characters Tatiana Maslany plays in “Orphan Black”.
I just realized that sentence gets tv nerd points.
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Jules
June 19, 2018, 12:50am
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I don’t have any idea what any of you are talking about…does that mean I am not actually a nerd?
But I have a laser!
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A laser counts double!
…early computer game called “Zork”.
No graphics…all text… wildly successful…
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Jules
June 19, 2018, 12:57am
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Whoa…looks cool! Sorry I missed it.
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You actually don’t have to… it is available… still entertaining after all these years. (Like you need another rabbit hole…)
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Tom_A
June 19, 2018, 1:31am
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But then she’d likely be eaten.
Crap! My sword is now glowing a faint blue glow. Gotta go!
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How about this one:
You wake up. The room is spinning very gently around your head. Or at least it would be if you could see it which you can’t.
It is pitch black.
: turn on light
Good start to the day. Pity it’s going to be the worst one of your life. The light is now on.
I proudly admit to playing this game on my Commodore 64 way back in the day. Man, life was a lot easier back then…
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rpegg
June 19, 2018, 1:39am
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Played many, many games of Zork on at least 7 platforms over the years. (Didn’t really think that my personality would gravitate toward multi-player games, did you?)
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cynd11
June 19, 2018, 1:59am
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Yep! Played Zork at work when I was supposed to be working…they actually had it on the mainframe and we played it on Tektronix terminals.
Also played Hitchhiker’s Guide, but on my own time.
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Jules
June 19, 2018, 2:25am
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Oh heck, I need to go check this out…
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Playable on the web:
https://classicreload.com/zork-i.html
Of course, if you really want to go old school, try Colossal Cave Adventure.
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The did not have that for my TI-99.
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whitetigertooth:
“Zork”.
Ahhh, memories! @timjedwards and our other brothers and I had many happy late-night Zork marathons, back in the long-ago. <3
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Tom_A
June 19, 2018, 12:32pm
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As I recall, next would be…
enter bathroom
You are now in a bathroom.
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You see a sink, a toilet, and a cabinet.
Open cabinet
Opening the cabinet reveals a toothbrush and bottle of analgesic.
Use analgesic
You don’t have the analgesic.
make audible groaning sound and shake your head
Get analgesic
You’ve taken the analgesic.
Use analgesic
Your head is feeling a bit better now.
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Jules
June 19, 2018, 1:22pm
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Oh…it teaches you programming logic.
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I went through many Zork games and only really got stuck when I did not think to burn the bra to get the wire to pick the lock.
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I saw Zork on my Commodore 64 (and again on my Fidoweb CD) but was too busy doing stuff in LOGO to travel that rabbit hole.
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