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Friday, Dec 21, 2007 - 00:28 SGT
Posted By: Gilbert

Your Command Is My Problem

A first requirement of my planned MMOG would be the functionality of accepting and executing text commands. Yes, there will be a cool-ass interface, but in the end those are just shortcuts to individual commands. So yesterday's mission was to whip up a simple parser, which for ease of development allows only a subset of "safe" characters as input, and assumes that all commands will accept a fixed number of arguments, which saves some trouble with quotation marks and whatnot:



Haven't added any customised alias capability, but that can wait.

On the bright side, I remember my last attempt at parsing took me a few days back in JC, so maybe I've really gotten faster with Perl.

It is a reflection on the state of the Internet that a bunch of by all accounts normal netizens can get together and casually start to wonder, "hey, how many five year old kids can I beat up in a fight?" and after thousands of discussion posts, spawn a website to estimate the right number.

I know I shouldn't have, but...

27

Which seems a bit on the conservative side.

The discussion can then be extended to how much one's dead body will fetch after the Zerglike tykes finally overwhelm one (okay, I think this assumes the body is in good condition):

      $4990.00The Cadaver Calculator - Find out how much your body is worth.
Not that shabby.

And the bad parenting warning of the day:



"It was actually kind of cute when they fell... They could have been in a Disney movie" (Not sure if the pics were for this case)



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