Quasiwizard

unauthorized entry prohibited, get outta hear

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[becherdireinen]

what a privilege it is to come home to a little animal that loves you like you're their whole world.

[theehorsepusssy]

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My dicks non orientable, its shaped like a klein bottle. I embed that shit in 4d pussy, don't worry bout the spray from the jet bundle on it. I hope you got a high genus cause I don't settle for some simple handlebody. My dynamics of a different type, im moving different. I'm not a CW complex, im built different. This shit aint nothing to me man.

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I saw the Ohio license plate "ILUVJMM." Must have been someone's initials because of how the governor of ohio drove out all the mathematicians like the snakes out of ireland :/

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

Hawkwind , 1974

[vintagerpg]

This is Aaron A. Reed’s 50 Years of Text Games (2023, I love that this came out the same year as Monsters, Aliens and Holes in the Ground). As you might suspect from the title, it is an exhaustive look at text adventures and other similar sorts of interactive fiction. He casts a wide net which often expands my understanding of the games and their descendants. Why do I accept games like Dragon Pass and Dwarf Fortress as text adventures more readily than Hack or Trade Wars 2002 or even dnd on the old Plato computers? There are lots of reasons, perhaps, but the bottom line is that I am grateful for all their inclusions, because they challenge my preconceptions. For the most part, it’s a bracing tour through the annals of what I deem to be an underappreciated (text has always been unsexy when compared to visual art) yet vastly important facet of videogames.

My lone bone of contention is Reed’s appraisal of AI Dungeon. I played that when it first appeared, before I was really cognizant of LLM “a.i.” I assumed the game was procedurally generated and was rather dull rather than revolutionary. None of the developments in the plot were terribly exciting or unexpected and despite playing several times, the action always seemed to curve back to the same loops.

That’s a quibble, though, for a book that is 600+ pages of meaty insight. It’s surprisingly well-illustrated, too, for a book about text. Lots of logos and advertisements and photos of floppy disks. If you’re a fan of text games and you can find a copy of this, you’ll get lost inside for weeks, guaranteed.

Oh, funny thing, maybe. I kinda roll my eyes when someone asks why I didn’t include a given game that is important to the questioner in MAHG. But I have to admit, one of the first things I did when my copy of this arrived was to look in the index for mentions of Anchorhead, the Lovecraftian horror text game that got me back into text games more broadly in the late ’90s. It’s not in there. Is that a petard I’ve just been hoisted by? Is it my own?

[no-sharks-on-the-sun]

analysts saying that the Strait of Hormuz is clopen

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Le four epic truths of the buddha

[algebraic-dumbass]

Let's start a thread where we collect papers with funny titles. I'll start.

Galois' Professor's Revenge

We prove that the groups associated with the Revenge Cube and the Professor's Cube can be realized as Galois groups over the rationals.

[flyingbooks42]

Seven Trees in One

Following a remark of Lawvere, we explicitly exhibit a particularly elementary bijection between the set T of finite binary trees and the se

[algebraic-dumbass]

Batman... My homology is my cohomology backwards, Batman.........

Poincaré duality spaces related to the Joker

The well known Joker $\mathcal{A}(1)$-module of Adams and Priddy is known to be realisable as the cohomology of a $1$-connected space. By at

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Four hot DOGs in the microwave

Hot dust-obscured galaxies (hot DOGs) are a rare class of hyperluminous infrared galaxies identified with the Wide-field Infrared Survey Exp

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As I entered my apartment one day, something smelled off. As I proceeded through the living room, it got worse! There, my toilet at the end of the hallway!

How had it gotten off its usual spot? It scraped against the hardwood. The lid flapped open. Uh oh. That isn't good! Urine trouble now, I thought to myself!

I blinked and now it's halfway to me. What do I do?? It looks like shit's going down! I decided this was all too much and decided to take a seat. Suddenly, it was under me and I was on the rim! I fell backwards in slow motion, the water roiling like Niagra below me.

Hands grasping, I found my guardian angel.

The plumber. His muscled hand grabbed mine and pulled me free from the fall into the depths. Plunger in the left, boot on the seat, he plunged and plunged. As the demon subsided, it let out a last cry....

"Well crap!"

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Two cavemen, over a shank of mammoth.

"How ya been? It feels like I haven't seen you since the last ice age!" (Mild laughter)

"Oh can't complain. Some days you get the saber tooth tiger, some days the tooth sabers you! You?" (Singular chuckle)

"Its the hunting and the gathering, it never ends! I cant wait till we can just show up somewhere and the food is already prepared! Then all our troubles will be over!"

"Oh come on, how would that happen? I'd expect another comet to wipe us out before anyone lets someone take their own food! Speaking of which, you gonna finish that?

(Uproarious applause, cue slap bass)

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Leaving behind tumblr for lumber. I will become tree.

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"grocery shopping with you is a costco-esque experience"

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Mobile game ad but it's a indiana jones type guy going across rope bridges over a series of chasms in the topology of the bridges of Konigsberg. Every time he crosses a bridge, a rope snaps and it falls away. Text across the top reads: "NO WAY BACK TO THE START?"

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Monster energy candle

[dungeonsynthguide]

DIM Compendium V (2026, Lowly Dying Steward Records)