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Do MUD's and ASCII Graphics Provoke Insanity?

Yes
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No
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GlyphGryph

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Re: Do MUD's and ASCII Graphics Provoke Insanity?
« Reply #15 on: November 07, 2012, 08:30:30 am »

What if MUDS were bees the whole time?
What if bees wore MUDS to hide their crimes?
What if ASCII was bees?
What if ASCII bees were singing the song that ends the world?
What if WE were bees?
What if bees were the cause of insanity?
What if bees formed a game out of ASCII?
What if WE formed a game out of bees?
What is all bees were replaced by ASCII and all ASCII was replaced by bees?
What if WE were bees and that was why we play MUDs and ASCII games?
Would bees go insane if bees played bees?
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Re: Do MUD's and ASCII Graphics Provoke Insanity?
« Reply #16 on: November 07, 2012, 08:33:29 am »

What if MUDS were bees the whole time?
What if bees wore MUDS to hide their crimes?
What if ASCII was bees?
What if ASCII bees were singing the song that ends the world?
What if WE were bees?
What if bees were the cause of insanity?
What if bees formed a game out of ASCII?
What if WE formed a game out of bees?
What is all bees were replaced by ASCII and all ASCII was replaced by bees?
What if WE were bees and that was why we play MUDs and ASCII games?
Would bees go insane if bees played bees?
Nah, it just means you invented the first Turing complete Biological computer.
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miauw62

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Re: Do MUD's and ASCII Graphics Provoke Insanity?
« Reply #17 on: November 07, 2012, 09:03:44 am »

Most DF-players don't really take the insanity inside the game out of it. Sure, we had some crazy-ass succesion forts, but nothing more then that.

E:

Inbound bees derail?
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they wouldn't be able to tell the difference between the raving confessions of a mass murdering cannibal from a recipe to bake a pie.
Knowing Belgium, everyone will vote for themselves out of mistrust for anyone else, and some kind of weird direct democracy coalition will need to be formed from 11 million or so individuals.

MagmaMcFry

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Re: Do MUD's and ASCII Graphics Provoke Insanity?
« Reply #18 on: November 07, 2012, 11:03:36 am »

Inbound bees derail?
How is this not crazy.
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Flying Dice

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Re: Do MUD's and ASCII Graphics Provoke Insanity?
« Reply #19 on: November 07, 2012, 11:07:15 am »

Beecause it isn't very abnormal.
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The Darkling Wolf

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Re: Do MUD's and ASCII Graphics Provoke Insanity?
« Reply #20 on: November 07, 2012, 11:10:24 am »

Yeah, if your definition of crazy is "derails forum threads sometimes" I'd like to hope you're never put in charge of a medical facility.
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miauw62

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Re: Do MUD's and ASCII Graphics Provoke Insanity?
« Reply #21 on: November 07, 2012, 11:11:35 am »

Yeah, if your definition of crazy is "derails forum threads sometimes Constantly" I'd like to hope you're never put in charge of a medical facility.
FTFY
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Quote from: NW_Kohaku
they wouldn't be able to tell the difference between the raving confessions of a mass murdering cannibal from a recipe to bake a pie.
Knowing Belgium, everyone will vote for themselves out of mistrust for anyone else, and some kind of weird direct democracy coalition will need to be formed from 11 million or so individuals.

MagmaMcFry

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Re: Do MUD's and ASCII Graphics Provoke Insanity?
« Reply #22 on: November 07, 2012, 11:17:40 am »

Wait, I thought we were all crazy, just not the bad kind.
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Flying Dice

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Re: Do MUD's and ASCII Graphics Provoke Insanity?
« Reply #23 on: November 07, 2012, 11:21:23 am »

Sanity is merely the particular shade of insanity collectively agreed upon as the norm.
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GlyphGryph

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Re: Do MUD's and ASCII Graphics Provoke Insanity?
« Reply #24 on: November 07, 2012, 11:43:01 am »

Inbound bees derail?

Are you asking, what if bees derail the thread?
What if bees flew on rails?
What if trains were bees?
If bee trains were derailed, would they form a thread?
If threads were trains, would they be bees?
If threads were bees, would they wear post its to represent posts?
What if posts were bees?
Would threads bees wear post bees?
Would that make the forum a bee hive?
Would our hive be called bee12?
What if we had have bees instead of magma?
Would bees be found underground?
Would we unleash bees on incoming goblins?
What if goblins were bees?
What if this sentence was bees?
What if

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MagmaMcFry

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Re: Do MUD's and ASCII Graphics Provoke Insanity?
« Reply #25 on: November 07, 2012, 11:51:07 am »

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    ____________(%%%%%%%)____________
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Re: Do MUD's and ASCII Graphics Provoke Insanity?
« Reply #26 on: November 07, 2012, 11:58:32 am »

Posting to watch, because I am covered in bees.
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Re: Do MUDs and ASCII Graphics Provoke Insanity?
« Reply #27 on: November 07, 2012, 12:10:52 pm »

I'm not sure I take seriously an article where, near the top, a MUD client is given the same blame for grinding a machine to a halt as a Youtube 'tab'.  (And dual-booting?  Is that even relevant?  I doubt he's using resources to run either boot as a virtual machine in the other?)


Other than that, I'm not even sure I understood the point of the article, but perhaps I just didn't grasp the gist right from the start and so the latter meaningfulness just passed me by.



(Oh yeah, and I might as well plug discworld.atuin.net 4242 (or whatever port it uses, these days...  I remember when it was on cix.compulink.co.uk, but might still be a bit out of date!).  Anyway, ask Granny about bees, if you go there.)

edit: Forgot to mention how annoying that apostrophe in the subject line is to me.  Corrected my own in protest/demonstration...  Kthxbye.
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Loud Whispers

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Re: Do MUD's and ASCII Graphics Provoke Insanity?
« Reply #28 on: November 07, 2012, 12:54:30 pm »

This reminds me of the time when the metro cited this one guy saying how after playing half life, he wished he could use a gravity gun to grab a sandwich from his fridge AS LOSING HIS FUCKING GRIP ON REALITY.

Many chuckles were to be had.

Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go hack my fridge to pieces, it got overrun with g.

Flying Dice

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Re: Do MUD's and ASCII Graphics Provoke Insanity?
« Reply #29 on: November 07, 2012, 12:56:07 pm »

Careful, there are cases of spontaneously hallucinating G-men after playing Half Life. Don't want one popping out of your icebox.
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