curiousdannii
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Comment · 6 years ago
Various levels of NLP do get applied in IF, but it doesn't necessarily help much. Being able to parse input is an important step, but the game/story needs to be able to do something with those verbs and nouns. For a good player experience the author needs to communicate clearly what range of input will be acceptable, making sure all nouns mentioned in text can be interacted, any actions implied in the text or by the nouns themselves are recognised, etc. If you do that well then you can have a good player experience with a purely handcoded parser.
Comment · 7 years ago
Aside from a few of the biggest Stack Exchange sites (including Stack Overflow) most of the 170 sites don't have ads and don't make profit. The only profit is very indirect, demonstrating that Stack Overflow the company can run sites like these, something which is now in doubt. (Disclosure: I'm a mod on one of the small SE sites and helped author the letter.)
Comment · 8 years ago
What about Module.instantiateWasm()? That should let you provide a pre-compiled or even pre-instantiated module.
Comment · 13 years ago
It denies freedom to the software more than freedom to the person. For copyleft licences the software is most important; for permissive licences people are most important.
Comment · 13 years ago
And their open source projects like Chrome do have public bug trackers, but in my experience I've either been ignored or treated with what I felt was contempt. The first is probably the same feedback problem as everywhere, the second is because the Chrome developers don't want the same kind of internet I do...
Comment · 13 years ago
A word cloud of all words in all doge images. Wow.
Comment · 13 years ago
This is some actual code from one of my projects (though written by another contributor):
To transition to monster card gallery:
animate the gallery-transition as a reel animation targeting the transition-container at 8 fps;
wait for main menu input until all animations are complete;
pause for 1000 milliseconds, accepting input;
now the image-ID of the transition-container is the image-ID of the card-container.
Comment · 13 years ago
That moment when you realise you actually don't so much touch type as four-finger type. :/
Comment · 13 years ago
For fewer layers (and faster playing) you can use Parchment: http://iplayif.com/?story=http://www.batmantis.com/zorks/zor...
Though the status line doesn't work... I should fix that.
And if you like Zork, try these modern classics:
Lost pig: http://iplayif.com/?story=http://mirror.ifarchive.org/if-arc...
Spider and Web: http://iplayif.com/?story=http://mirror.ifarchive.org/if-arc...
Comment · 13 years ago
"How many children/pigs/dogs are in the house? Did we forget any?"
Comment · 13 years ago
What differences will this make now?
Comment · 13 years ago
But unlike most other media there's no other way to purchase them. I can't buy DVDs of Kindle active content, I can't get it off ebay.
I guess they mustn't consider the international market worth the trouble of solving whatever legal issue is stopping them from selling them to other countries.
Comment · 13 years ago
So the Disney Vault is an actual physical vault with human security guards? Wow! I thought it was just a scheme for introducing artificial scarcity.
Comment · 13 years ago
Or any active content! Why would Amazon sell apps in only North America?!