File: Zork_Trilogy.swf-(376 KB, 550x400, Game)
[_] we've all heard about cyberpunk and cipherpunk, but here's something new: textpunk. Anonymous
10/24/16(Mon)16:56:48 No.3166980
That's right. Textpunk
Newspaper articles, BBSs, IRC, ASCII art, program source code, Novels, View HTML source,
Mathematics, Hieroglyphics, The Rosetta Stone, Gutenberg Bible...
A textpunk doesn't sit there waiting for information to be slowly fed to him drip at a time by
the gogglebox. A textpunk is thirsty for knowledge and 100% focused - they read old school hacker
textfile zines. They don't waste their time with lame imageboarders: instead they're doing crazy
abstract shitposting on bbses with thoughts and concepts twisted up so with many levels of irony
that it becomes an art form.
Textpunks recognize and understand the true power of copypasta - how a well crafted piece of text
can be so damn powerful that it alone can trigger thousands of replies with so much veracity
within days. They see through things down into the core of what really counts, everything in the
computer is built of text, ascii, strings of bits - They don't care about the latest 3D GUI
environment fads. No, that's just a distraction. 7-bit clean ascii program source code. That's
textpunk.
Look at how text has shaped humanity: The birth of writing systems was correlated with some of
fastest advances of science and technology in early human history. Mass production of the Bible
took power away from a few select monks and democratized paving the way for people to start
thinking for themselves. Programming is text and it's the closest thing there is in the world to
true wizardy and spell casting. Talking about real SICP-type programming here, not that modern
garbage.
Today textpunks build up digital libraries of books and stick it to the copyright cartel.
Schwarz, lib gen, the gentoomen library, and so many anonymous sources that tireless scan and
collect books.. Textpunks are the people in tune with modern digital society of ultrafast
cost-free transmission of text, they're the ones rethinking and revolutionizing publishing mixing
it with open rights and making works available online.
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>> [_] Anonymous 10/24/16(Mon)17:06:17 No.3166988
>Proclaims the new era of "textpunk."
>Posts a game older than dirt that's been updated with a fancy new GUI.
You want to try and fail a third time, chummer?
>> [_] Anonymous 10/24/16(Mon)17:07:11 No.3166989
let`s invent socialmediapunk
>> [_] Anonymous 10/24/16(Mon)17:08:55 No.3166992
It has one point about stripping away the unnecessary graphical components of a software and
making sure it works, without getting distracted by graphical content.
>>3166988
This itself is copypasta, I thought it would be entertaining to some.
>>3166989
Doesn't that exist more or less?
>> [_] Anonymous 10/24/16(Mon)17:10:47 No.3166994
>>3166989
What about punkpunk?
Ya know, where we all wear mohawks, wear anarchy "A" patches, and listen to awful loud bands that
scream alot?
>> [_] Anonymous 10/24/16(Mon)17:18:00 No.3167000
>>3166994
What about flashpunk?
Ya know, where we all wear red dyed hair, wear Adobe "A" patches, and listen to awful loud
flashes and dance in the street alot?
>> [_] Anonymous 10/24/16(Mon)17:19:04 No.3167001
how about not-punk
where we just shower and stuff
>> [_] Anonymous 10/24/16(Mon)17:23:38 No.3167004
>>3167001
No, that's hygiene-punk.
Get with it, you nerd.
>> [_] Anonymous 10/24/16(Mon)17:28:25 No.3167006
>>3167004
and like don't scream and don't listen toold stupid bands and actually know that anarchy is stupid
>> [_] Anonymous 10/24/16(Mon)17:31:41 No.3167009
>>3167006
Well duh here.
>What about hygienepunk?
>Ya know, where we all take showers, wear deodorant, and listen to awful loud podcasts on how to
be clean?
>> [_] Anonymous 10/24/16(Mon)17:34:05 No.3167010
chan punk
>> [_] Anonymous 10/24/16(Mon)17:39:33 No.3167011
Pun Punk!
>> [_] Anonymous 10/24/16(Mon)17:48:41 No.3167015
>smell me
It smells like a you.
>> [_] Anonymous 10/24/16(Mon)18:50:16 No.3167029
>>3166988
not updated enough, would love to not have to type in the commands myself
>> [_] Anonymous 10/24/16(Mon)19:02:16 No.3167033
>>3166980
Tl; dr
Also I think your flash is broken, i tried to click the play button but nothing happens. I cant
be fucked to decompile this to see what it actually is
>> [_] Anonymous 10/24/16(Mon)19:07:52 No.3167037
>>3167033
There is no "play" button. It works over here, which Zork game are you trying to select?
>> [_] Anonymous 10/24/16(Mon)19:14:07 No.3167039
>>3167037
play button >imgur.com/ESmcIcD ???
>> [_] Anonymous 10/24/16(Mon)19:17:57 No.3167041
>>3167039
Don't know what that is, are you sure that you're opening this flash? It should look like this
http://i.imgur.com/zoVnozJ.png
>> [_] Anonymous 10/24/16(Mon)19:20:14 No.3167042
>>3167041
>http://i.imgur.com/zoVnozJ.png
I got passed that screen, the play button below where it decribes the scene. is it not clickable
or what
>> [_] Anonymous 10/24/16(Mon)19:24:25 No.3167045
>>3167042
hahahah, that's too funny.
>Zork is one of the earliest interactive fiction[1] computer games, with roots drawn from the
original genre game, Colossal Cave Adventure. The first version of Zork was written in 1977–1979
using the MDL programming language on a DEC PDP-10 computer. The authors—Tim Anderson, Marc
Blank, Bruce Daniels, and Dave Lebling—were members of the MIT Dynamic Modelling Group.
>[1]: Interactive fiction, often abbreviated IF, is software simulating environments in which
players use text commands to control characters and influence the environment.
>> [_] Anonymous 10/24/16(Mon)20:34:22 No.3167071
>>3167045
There was a fourth Zork, wasn't there?
>> [_] Anonymous 10/24/16(Mon)20:39:08 No.3167075
>>3167071
The company, Infocom, went on to make sequels and other games in the universe, even titles like
Zork Quest: The Crystal of Doom, but there was no game called Zork IV.
>> [_] Anonymous 10/24/16(Mon)21:01:14 No.3167085
>>3167000
kek
>> [_] Anonymous 10/24/16(Mon)21:18:04 No.3167094
>>3167000
sign me up
>> [_] Anonymous 10/24/16(Mon)21:58:05 No.3167110
>>3166980
I assume this is a pasta from /g/, though I first saw it on taba.
>> [_] Anonymous 10/24/16(Mon)22:01:53 No.3167114
>>3167110
Probably not from /g/, I got it somewhere else. Although I don't know how old it actually is.
>> [_] Anonymous 10/24/16(Mon)22:05:38 No.3167117
I would date this pasta to within the last two years. I thought I saw it first on 4-ch but I may
be wrong.
>> [_] Anonymous 10/24/16(Mon)22:06:20 No.3167118
>>3167117
That's where I saw it too.
>> [_] Anonymous 10/24/16(Mon)22:19:41 No.3167122
>>3166980
I was a BBS sysop once on a simple IBM PS/2 with a 2400 baud experimenting with RIP.
While I do have a terrabyte collection of books on every subject in my machine, I wouldn't
consider myself a "textpunk". Frankly labels are pointless. I just use the skills from the past
to enhance my life and make it easier. Lots of the skills I learned from phreaking has been used
in other aspects of my engineering I do for a living. I loved playing LORD and much of that has
had an unexpected impact in other problem-solving aspects of my job.
I suppose its a shame no one will experience these hard core skills anymore but I suppose there
are skills of a different kind to be found these days. Lots of opportunities in the IoT world
that is just emerging. Way better support than the pathetic kits from RadioShack and mail-order
catalogues.
>> [_] Anonymous 10/24/16(Mon)23:00:21 No.3167135
>>3166980
Is there a list of commands?
After reading the leaflet, what am I to do?
I tried breaking the window, but there's nothing to break it with.
>> [_] Anonymous 10/24/16(Mon)23:12:41 No.3167146
>>3167135
I mean if you want a full command list it's here http://zork.wikia.com/wiki/Command_List
But you can really just use basic verbs to do what you want. If you want to discover most of them
on your own I'll tell you that movement is based upon nsew and just typing in n will move you
North.
Try making a map (on paper or in your head) before you look everything up on that wiki.
>> [_] Anonymous 10/24/16(Mon)23:24:06 No.3167154
Oh yeah, don't forget that it recognizes the word rape.
>> [_] Anonymous 10/24/16(Mon)23:27:23 No.3167155
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nigRT2KmCE
>> [_] Anonymous 10/25/16(Tue)00:04:06 No.3167174
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