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January 28, 2006

Nethack

Iraq Invasion: A Text Misadventure. Excerpt:

> STAY COURSE
The situation in Iraq deteriorates.

Some insurgents arrive.
There is a small number of insurgents here.

> STAY COURSE
The situation in Iraq deteriorates.

>STAY COURSE
The situation in Iraq deteriorates.

Some insurgents arrive.
There is a medium number of insurgents here.

>STAY COURSE
The situation in Iraq deteriorates.

An election year arrives.

Via Anyway.

Posted by Jim Henley @ 12:17 pm, Filed under: Main

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2 Responses to “Nethack”

  1. Trackback by Kn@ppster
    January 28, 2006 @ 6:09 pm

    Kill dragon … dragon is dead

    These kinds of coincidences seem to follow me around and make me wonder if there isn’t really some sort of mini-zeitgeist or something going on …

  2. Comment by mrfred
    January 29, 2006 @ 2:23 pm

    dude, i’m going to have to pull a nerdly intervention… nethack is an ascii-based GUI dungeon crawl, while it is colossal caves and its descendants which is being parodied.

    (and yes, I find the show Beauty and the Geek familiar and disturbing…)