#hack run

[1giocoalgiorno]

Hai mai sognato di essere un hacker? Trova la tua strada nel cuore di una misteriosa organizzazione e scopri i suoi segreti. Leggi i file e le email per trovare indizi ed indovinelli che ti daranno accesso a più account. Una volta raggiunti i tuoi obiettivi, ti sposterai sempre più vicino al successo finale. È il momento per una partita ad Hack RUN! Gratis by 1GAG http://bit.ly/Yj5aXX

[musharama]

Last month I got completely obsessed with a game called Hack Run, and it's two sequels. It's more or less to make non-actual computer people feel like actual computer-people. The website describes it like this: "Hack your way into the heart of a mysterious organization to uncover their secrets. Hack RUN is a game which uses old school command prompts (like UNIX) that simulate a real operating system. Learn the commands of each system to help you navigate through your adventure. 

As you hack into their systems, you will learn about the organization and the people who work there. Read files and emails to find clues and riddles which will give you access to more accounts. Data found on their systems will help you learn about the motives of the organization, and how dark their plans can get. You may also discover dirty little secrets about the employees as well.  Hacking into new accounts or discovering key information will increase your skill level. As you achieve your goals, you will move closer and closer to the final achievement; over 50 levels deep!" The interface is a DOS emulator, so it's all writen commands and skulking in and out of file levels with words only. It looks like this

And I tried to explain the game to so many people, to little to no avail, why it was SO consuming and interesting, and worth spending hours playing, digging deeper and uncovering layer after layer, and building an understanding of how the system works. I grant you, it's dorky, and probably seems pointless and needlessly annoying, but then reading about my personality type, this part super magically made sense of it all, in a way that online personality indicators proab;y aren't actually capable of doing:

"INTPs thrive on systems. Understanding, exploring, mastering, and manipulating systems can overtake the INTP’s conscious thought. This fascination for logical wholes and their inner workings is often expressed in a detachment from the environment, a concentration where time is forgotten and extraneous stimuli are held at bay. Accomplishing a task or goal with this knowledge is secondary." But, regardless. That is so true of me, and my obsession with games like that is a really good example of it. This also explains my obsession with science but lack of interest in pursuing it in any way other than theoretical and from afar.