The Delusion is Strong in this One

[AdamAnt316]

When I was in high school, I wrote a super-simple BASIC game on my TRaSh-80 Color Computer 2 (this was in ~1998, when the thing was already several years obsolete). "You find yourself standing on an island two feet wide, two feet deep, and 1,000 feet up. Which way do you want to go (N, S, E, W)?" As you can probably guess, selecting any of those directions resulted in "You fall off the island and die. Game over." There was a way to win, but it was totally undocumented unless you listed the code, and completely improbable. Maybe he could get a game like that for his $200, but it probably wouldn't be very much fun.
-Adam

[PepperElf]

hmm. if you want i can sell him a copy of my tic-tac-toe. i wrote it for college.

[wolfie]

He sends me an email raging that he doesn't want to talk to the other guy, who "just lies about money", and that he wants quotes from only ME, and that I need to be the ONLY ONE who works on it.

I point out to him the first email, where I told him that I cannot code this sort of thing, but that I work with the other company for this stuff. So, their cost is unavoidable. Flat out.

He promptly tells me that he will not do that at all, it has to be stuff that only I work on. WTF, did you not see what I just said? I CAN'T DO THIS SORT OF THING.

I'd like to see the conversation if he crunches the corner of his car. The bodyshop tells him they can fix the fender, but there's damage to the front suspension that needs to be handled by a mechanic, and he won't even touch that.

If you run into that sort of problem again, feel free to use the analogy.

[dalesys]

... The bodyshop tells him they can fix the fender, but there's damage to the front suspension that needs to be handled by a mechanic, and he won't even touch that...

Or...

The tailor can repair the seat of your pants, but it will take a surgeon to re-attach your butt-cheek.

[EricKei]

but it will take a surgeon to re-attach your butt-cheek.

He'll need that surgeon to remove his head from said buttcheeks first...>_>

I remember the Trash-80. I had a TRS-80 Color Computer. Taught myself
BASIC on it in 4th grade

Had a c64, too. M.U.L.E. lives, dammit!

[Geek King]

Had a c64, too. M.U.L.E. lives, dammit!

It sure does! And free too! Try here

I accept no blame for losing track of several hours, or your wake-up alarm going off before you make it to bed.

[EricKei]

Yup -- Hell, I had the original on the c64, book and all. I tried the version you linked a few days ago, it's not bad ^_^

Tho it still needs a little work on the subtleties (the computer isn't nearly as stupid as it once was; "dancing" no longer works in auctions; I dunno if Collusion works, but it would be pretty damn hard to so in online play)....Still really well-done, tho.