Just wanted to say thanks for all the memory's. Took me weeks to get all the treasures in Return To Pirates Isle on my old TI 99/4A. Without any spoilers, finding the alarm clock took forever...
The Further Text Adventures of Scott Adams
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Re: The Further Text Adventures of Scott Adams
#82Hi all this is Scott Adams. I am open for an AMA (Ask Me Anything), awaiting your comments!
Wanted to say thanks for many hours of puzzling and enjoyment with my brothers growing up. I always appreciated that the puzzles you created had logical solutions, though I confess we also examined the strings embedded in the programs for clues!
And I remember being stuck and playfully trying to jump into a certain ravine and realizing that instead I had just found out how to get across it (I guess it was a smaller ravine than I had imagined). Another poster mentioned learning "flotsam & jetsam" - I also learned calliope - though not how to pronounce it.
But I think we never completed The Golden Voyage - I should see if I can convince my children raised with Minecraft and HD games to give your adventures a shot. This is good timing, as my family often plays older games over Thanksgiving.
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#83Earlier quoted context omitted.
It says that guys get off to the idea of young women, but for long term commitments want someone closer to their age as well, even if that person is outside of fertility. That backs up what I'm saying.
I don't think it validates what you're saying. You're saying it's creepy, while the study says it's natural if the goal is not a long term commitments. Or is your view that anything that's not a long term commitment is creepy?
A) We're discussing a marriage
B) If you read the study and not just the abstract, it puts the general lowest age for 60yo men at around 45 for purely sexual fantasy partners. A 25yo is wayyyyy outside that bounds.
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#84Earlier quoted context omitted.
Is this a American cultural quirk I'm not understanding? Who cares that he's old enough to be her father? Why is it interesting or relevant? He married an attractive younger woman. She married a rich older man. It happens every day all over the world. Its not the first marriage for either of them and they both already have children. It says very little about either person involved except that one likes attractive wom…
> Is this a American cultural quirk I'm not understanding? As an American I would say: yes, it is. I suspect it has something to do with the rising neoteny of more recent generations coupled with America's persistent puritanical views on sex, but there has been an increasingly bizarre fixation on the age gap of couples. All teenagers have recently be re-defined as children, so much that it's common on places like red…
So wait, it's simultaneously a Puritanical hang up from the past, and also contrary to the way things have always been?
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#85Earlier quoted context omitted.
Which is a good point. Back when the internet was starting to bloom I got a nice email from Scott Adams of Dilbert. Seems he had gotten a number of fan mails meant for me and was trying to find who to send it to. I also had a number of fan mails meant for him! We exchanged the mails and had a nice chat about it!
> Which is a good point. Especially as he seems to have kind of gone off the proverbial deep end with his political fanaticism in recent years...
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#86(Not the Dilbert one)
I almost didn't even click. My gut reaction to the headline was "what train wreck did the Dilbert author create this time and do I feel like seeing the carnage?" Eventually I decided I did and was pleasantly surprised.
Please keep flamebait tangents off HN, for the same reason that you don't toss lit matches in dry forests.
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#87Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't think it validates what you're saying. You're saying it's creepy, while the study says it's natural if the goal is not a long term commitments. Or is your view that anything that's not a long term commitment is creepy?
A) We're discussing a marriage B) If you read the study and not just the abstract, it puts the general lowest age for 60yo men at around 45 for purely sexual fantasy partners. A 25yo is wayyyyy outside that bounds.
> If you read the study and not just the abstract
I'd have to purchase the PDF for that.
> it puts the general lowest age for 60yo men at around 45 for purely sexual fantasy partners
I find it really really high and hard to believe. I'm not sure about the methodology employed, but if people can just lie, I wouldn't trust the results of that study.
Re: The Further Text Adventures of Scott Adams
#88Earlier quoted context omitted.
A) We're discussing a marriage B) If you read the study and not just the abstract, it puts the general lowest age for 60yo men at around 45 for purely sexual fantasy partners. A 25yo is wayyyyy outside that bounds.
> If you read the study and not just the abstract I'd have to purchase the PDF for that. > it puts the general lowest age for 60yo men at around 45 for purely sexual fantasy partners I find it really really high and hard to believe. I'm not sure about the methodology employed, but if people can just lie, I wouldn't trust the results of that study.
Sci hub still exists.
Re: The Further Text Adventures of Scott Adams
#89Hi all this is Scott Adams. I am open for an AMA (Ask Me Anything), awaiting your comments!
I can get many of your adventures from your old website. The readme file says that four of the later adventures are in SAGA+ format and are not included because ScottFree can't play them. Since this was written 24 years ago, is there now anything that can play them and if so will you be releasing them? (I'd think that at least it should be possible to play through emulation.)
Trying to google this is harder than it seems, and shows me graphical versions that are so different between systems that they look like they were written from scratch for each system rather than using the same data format with an engine.
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#90Scott, I am curious about the genesis of your game language interpreter. Did you have a background in building interpreters / compilers before going in this direction?
I always looked at a computer issue as a challenge. How can I best handle it. My brother built a 32 bit computer from bit slice chips, my other brother made a tv typewriter IO for it. I was the one who was going to program it. So I made a game. I had no compiler, not even an assembler or linker. I had to write it in psuedo assembler and then hand assemble and link the code. One issue I discovered early on was I made…
I read or heard you talk about Mike Wise's Sphere before. I wish there was more information about it available online. I know there was a BASIC for it before Microsoft or Tiny BASIC came along. Did you have BASIC on the Sphere? How did it compare to other BASICs?
Any other info about the Sphere would be appreciated. I know BYTE magazine called it the first true personal computer.