CidTheKid

If there was a spam video game

Giygas said
Oh hey, your back

What is up with my back?

If there was a spam video game

It would be hyped up to hell and never finished.

Not that anyone cares of my personal life buuuut

Hey. We certainly care about you, not that most people here would admit it.

Because you are a part of spam, and spam is far more mindful of its members than it would seem at first sight.

Sorry to hear you're going through this, though. I wish you the best of luck.

$ Terminal : A Forum Game.

$

Insufficient participants?

Naw, perhaps this'll do.

It's a beautiful day in the Spamborhood.

Nothing but inanity.

help me look

Doivid said
oh no I was, but I could see how you thought I wasn't.something about your post made me chuckle, but I always remember you being serious I think.

I keep hoping someday people will realize I'm really just a more coherent, less spammy version of nat.

Because I can't remember the last thing I posted where I was exclusively serious.

But thats enough about me.

help me look

Doivid said
you're funny

I can't tell if you're serious or not. I can't tell if I was serious or not, and so I have no idea how to respond to this.

Which is a perfectly good idea to respond with.

Whoa.

help me look

Some idiot fuck spider racist probably stepped on him 10 minutes after he got lost.

Fuck people who are racist against spiders.

$ Terminal : A Forum Game.

The concept

One day, you wake up in a room that isn't your own. The door is locked, there are no windows, and the only sources of light are a a bare bulb hanging from the ceiling, and the glow of a CRT Screen, currently displaying some large set of green text. There don't seem to be any peripherals save for a keyboard, and whatever it's connected to, is not currently in the room. It all looks rather primitive, honestly.

You are wearing a white jumpsuit, socks, and boots, along with whatever underwear you were wearing when you last went to bed.

The room itself is rather spartan, with no decorations save for a brand new coat of white paint. The bed is a bunk bed with a metal frame, somewhat like the kind you'd find in a barracks. There is a toilet and sink in the corner, with running water, and a metal table with some stationary and a ballpoint pen. An uncomfortable looking metal chair is there to match the table.

Turning your attention to the Monitor, you read what seems to be a briefing of some sort.

The Briefing

"Welcome participant. The door to your room will unlock itself within 24 hours. You have until then to prepare yourself There is food beneath your bed should you require it. This briefing, your current instructions and more information about the game are found within files in your Home folder.

You will receive further instructions as the game progresses.
(END) PRESS Q TO QUIT

OOC

Hello, and welcome to Terminal. Despite the name, it does not involve the terminal quite so much, no knowledge of CLI is required to succeed, and most commands will be some physical action rather than computer stuff. You ought to send in commands via PM as secrecy is important to your success. Preface all commands with the $ sign.

Your success is also ultimately and arbitrarily decided by me, but I'll try to be fair and might even roll dice or something. Don't question it, and don't worry too much about it.

I've got some cryptic bullshit going on already, so no further explanation will be given to keep with the theme.

[Current Participants]

[~]$ begin

If you was to go back in time, and kill yourself.

Halo said
I have no idea. I don't understand it! :P I assumed you did, as I know you have a mathematical background, and the rules discussed in the video are essentially those that are in place in the study of mathematical topology. The idea is that any two objects that can be morphed into one another without puncturing or ripping the "material" are the same - as long as they're transformed into eachother through continuous deformation. A donut and a coffee mug? They're the same, 'cause they both only have one hole (donut in the centre, mug in the handle) and can be morphed into one another without puncturing or ripping. It's a huge area of study and I'm woefully clueless on it, honestly - but I need to be clued up on it in order to study theoretical physics, particularly string theory. I mean, spacetime itself is a 4-dimensional manifold, and string theory does some crazy shit with multidimensional space... bosonic string theory requires there to be 26 dimensions and superstring theory requires there to be 10.Sorry if I've missed a joke you were making or something, or am repeating stuff you're already aware of. I decided to take the post at face value xD

I wasn't actually joking. I don't really know any more than the cliffnotes version of it, so I figured I might as well ask you for more background on it. I think I'm still pretty far from calling myself good at maths, even if it seems like I've studied up a bit. I suppose I should've rephrased that as "What do I need to learn to learn topology?"

A lot of my maths knowledge is hacked from bits and pieces of a lot of different fields rather than any one in specific, and it all feels rather inadecuate, when it comes down to it, mostly because it's all very superficial knowledge.

I'm still learning, mind you.