No innocents.

xyzzy · Post Post #0 (isolation #0) » Wed Apr 25, 2007 12:26 pm

Would a game with no innocent team be interesting? I played in a game on another forum a few months ago - "Battle of the Bands". There wasn't really an evil team; just five independent teams, who knew each other. It made for a very interesting game, since voting alibis had to be much better than, "I don't know if he's good or not," since no one was ignorant.

xyzzy · Post Post #10 (isolation #1) » Wed May 02, 2007 3:03 pm

livingod wrote:xyzzy: Minesweeper!

I'm sure there's a hilarious joke here, but I'm totally missing it.

Help?

xyzzy · Post Post #17 (isolation #2) » Thu May 03, 2007 3:56 pm

livingod wrote:
xyzzy wrote:
livingod wrote:xyzzy: Minesweeper!
I'm sure there's a hilarious joke here, but I'm totally missing it.

Help?
Do a google search of the two words together. (xyzzy and minesweeper)

I'm not going to get one of those horrible things with some old guy swinging his manhood around, am I?

xyzzy · Post Post #19 (isolation #3) » Thu May 03, 2007 4:02 pm

xyzzy wrote:
livingod wrote:
xyzzy wrote:
livingod wrote:xyzzy: Minesweeper!
I'm sure there's a hilarious joke here, but I'm totally missing it.

Help?
Do a google search of the two words together. (xyzzy and minesweeper)
I'm not going to get one of those horrible things with some old guy swinging his manhood around, am I?

Hooray! It wasn't old man nudity!

You don't know how many of those things my "friends" try to get me to go to.

And the verb XYZZY is much older than Minesweeper; it dates back to a very fun interactive fiction entitled Collosal Cave Adventure, in which the word was used. It's been featured in pretty much every great game since, like, forever, including minesweeper, and bearly every Infocom game ever.

In Zork: The Great Underground Empire, the verb (remember, since IF involves manipulating objects, the first word in a string is always a verb, so XYZZY is a verb) returns:

A hollow voice says, 'Fool.'