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Jul 09, 2005 17:12

scroll down to #7, "Bionicle Adventure Game"
"This is the most incomprehensible game I ever played. The rules were full of wierd Bionicle terms. A paragraph might read 'move your Fukioki into the Marto Fleemoid. If you Karbozoize the Actomimo then your Muzatoki will be Pebooized! Beware the Cruchies!' We tried to figure it out for about 2 hours and ( Read more... )

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phlebas July 11 2005, 09:22:54 UTC
Wow. That almost sounds like a line from my unwritten incomprehensible novel!

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angharad July 11 2005, 19:04:07 UTC
Did you play the IF where you were a gostak who distimmed doshes, or where you were a dosh who had to avoid that, I forget which. Semi-english, but...

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phlebas July 12 2005, 08:13:19 UTC
Waaah, someone beat me to it? I've not heard of that, must look it out. I have done some kthalaking in my time though...

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angharad July 12 2005, 08:55:29 UTC
Gostak, by Carl Muckenhoupt:
http://www.wurb.com/if/game/1670

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phlebas July 12 2005, 08:57:03 UTC
Aha, thanks.
Now I just have to resist trying it until I get home from work...

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angharad July 12 2005, 08:59:35 UTC
Also, in case you never read the original short story:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gostak

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angharad July 12 2005, 09:09:08 UTC
Okay, I thought I'd read a classic SF short story which featured the phrase, and maybe I did, but according to Wikipedia, it came from a theoretical paper.

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