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Win Or Lose, This Video Game Deletes Files On Your Computer
from the fun-for-the-whole-family... dept
Well, here's a fun one. Apparently someone has created a space invaders type video game... where every "alien" is randomly associated with a file (any file) on your hard drive. If you kill the alien... or the alien kills you, the game will delete that particular file. It's like playing Russian Roulette with a fully loaded gun. I imagine no one is stupid enough to actually play... though I'm a bit disappointed that they didn't make a version where killing the aliens at least saves some files. That way, at least, you'd have more incentive to play well...
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Too funny
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A gentleman at the University of New Mexico had a much better idea when he took the Doom source, and built a game where killing a demon (daemon?) kills a process, wounding it renices. Sure you can still shoot yourself in the foot, but at least it is fixed by a reboot.
Can I linky here? http://www.cs.unm.edu/~dlchao/flake/doom/
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Qemu.
But I rather play this one battlefieldheroes
And of course people can find a lot of online games to play here
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Everything about it says "game", and the different types of enemies created based on your file types sets you as the player into the same king of "survival" mode.
But...
As the author states, Lose/Lose is more about the implications of one's actions. You are presented with a game, where the only outcome of victory is subjective. There's no "you win" screen, but rather are you going for points (which costs you your entire file system), or are you going to "lose" and keep everything intact?
Anyway, if there's someone that should get attention, it's this guy: http://www.quelsolaar.com/
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Sigh
Then they could just call the game "Voting".
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Re: Sigh
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Fun is Where You Find it
Rebuild the OS and start over...
Maybe drink a shot everytime you finish the game without crashing the OS.
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Years ago I've heard of a guy who built something like that on Doom codebase. He had a virtual map of the building in Doom, with servers, switches, etc. represented with different kind of monsters, located at exactly the same spots where the hardware was physically located in the actual building. And shooting one with a rocket launcher would remotely reboot the respective computer, etc. Not sure how much of true or false that story was, but that's how I heard it.
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Virus Killer
Have fun.
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Joshua was right
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I followed the links..
Lets see how far you can get BEFORE it kills the system or the GAME itself..
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Reboot!
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Re: Virus Killer
Virus Killer doesn't delete any of your files, but it does display actual file and folder names from your home directory during the game.
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Re: Qemu.
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it could be a lot of fun
Oh and by the way...
...FRUGALISTA!
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Why is it...
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Hollywood movies
They've taught us:
-You can copy a bug in a program on a floppy, put that floppy into another completely unrelated system and wipe that system out.
-Hacking a supercomputer is like flying through a virtual city and that viruses are cute as they destroy it and cause breakers in the control room to blow.
-The US nuclear arsenal is controlled by a friendly AI that wants to play games.
-Writing a virus is best done on an 8-display system and that screwing up on one module causes the virus to break apart. Likewise, re-hacking your own virus' unbreakable encryption can be done in 60 seconds with a gun to your head.
-Ripping the guts out of a scanner and hooking them up to an iPod works to scan text from a computer screen.
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