FARK.com: (7497251) You are standing at the podium on a great stage. You've just been awarded the DICE Pioneer Award. In front of you, beyond the blinding lights is an audience too young to know your work but applauds anyway. The pitch black back-stage is to your right

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		You are standing at the podium on a great stage. You've just been awarded the DICE Pioneer Award. In front of you, beyond the blinding lights is an audience too young to know your work but applauds anyway. The pitch black back-stage is to your right (engadget.com)		40
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meat0918		2012-12-20 08:33:06 PM

Careful, or you're liable to be eaten by a grue

mamoru		2012-12-20 08:37:50 PM

go stage

amfv		2012-12-20 08:40:43 PM

For me the crowning moment of awesome was finally defeating that damned thief.

PanicMan		2012-12-20 08:53:55 PM

Hey! I'm not too young to know Zork!

I liked Planetfall and Hitchhiker's Guide better though.

MagSeven		2012-12-20 08:56:54 PM

Hickory Dickory Dock! OHHHH!

MarkEC		2012-12-20 09:02:08 PM

I never played Zork. I did play Adventure circa 1975 on a DEC mainframe using a line-printer terminal.

/I killed a dragon with my bare hands
//yes
///with my bare hands

Anderson's Pooper		2012-12-20 09:09:01 PM

I attack the darkness!!!!

WorkingInParadise		2012-12-20 09:24:59 PM

"You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike."

GAH! I hated that game.

offacue		2012-12-20 09:26:52 PM

MagSeven: Hickory Dickory Dock! OHHHH!

Your awawd is ovah heah now.

Twilight Farkle		2012-12-20 09:50:47 PM

It is pitch dark.

Anastacya		2012-12-20 10:06:18 PM

I have played the text adventure and the point-and-click Zork. Cut my teeth on that game. LOVE IT TO THIS DAY!!!

/I was not eaten by a grue
//placed the doormat under the door, knocked the key through the lock onto the mat, and pulled it back to me and retrieved the key
///eyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah

Snapper Carr		2012-12-20 10:13:14 PM

/keep hope alive

Snapper Carr		2012-12-20 10:13:49 PM

wrong thread

RoyFokker'sGhost		2012-12-20 10:14:19 PM

meat0918: Careful, or you're liable to be eaten by a grue

Can we put Bobby Kotick and John Riccitiello in the dark cave to be eaten by a grue?

Lord Dimwit		2012-12-20 11:01:42 PM

Xyzzy, biatches

LordOfThePings		2012-12-20 11:12:03 PM

---v----v----v----v----v----v----v----v--- | | | |||||||||| LORD | > !|||| | DIMWIT < | |||| ---| FLATHEAD | | |||C CC \\ | > |||| _\\ < | ||| (____| | | || | | > |______| Our < | / \\ Excessive | | / \\ Leader | > | | < | | | | | | > G.U.E. POSTAGE 3 Zorkmids < | | ---^----^----^----^----^----^----^----^---

poot_rootbeer		2012-12-20 11:15:11 PM

> look audience

TheZorker		2012-12-20 11:22:26 PM

You don't see any audience here.

Surool		2012-12-20 11:22:29 PM

Damn it! I need to find a lamp and the Grue repellent smells of burnt tires and only lasts 1 move!

Twilight Farkle		2012-12-21 01:15:55 AM

Lord Dimwit: Xyzzy, biatches

Nothing happens, Mr. Flathead.

Mad Canadian		2012-12-21 01:47:34 AM

Came for xyzzy and grue references and was not disappointed...

/Werdna sux...

Twilight Farkle		2012-12-21 02:06:58 AM

Trebor Sux!

DoBeDoBeDo		2012-12-21 05:17:45 AM

Eaten by a Grue. Like I can find the farking key, to open the farking door, to get to the next Grue anyway!

Green Bastard		2012-12-21 07:16:32 AM

A podium is a low stage. If it was on a stage it would be called a riser. You are referring to a lecturn, which would be placed on a podium, or even a stage.

\That is all
\\Why are you still on my lawn?

stonelotus		2012-12-21 07:37:37 AM

Oblig play Zork online link

buntz		2012-12-21 08:34:36 AM

I once touched myself inappropriately while playing The Leather Goddesses of Phobos

mochunk		2012-12-21 08:50:18 AM

Twilight Farkle: It is pitch dark.

Came for the same. Thanks!
Now it's stuck in my head and I didn't even listen. It's in heavy
rotation on my player.

Swoop1809		2012-12-21 09:40:20 AM

GET farkING LAMP!

blue_2501		2012-12-21 10:11:21 AM

H2G2: The best text adventure EVA!

You're welcome.

tennessee.hillbilly		2012-12-21 10:16:04 AM

Awesome. Man, I loved that game on the trust ol' Commodore 64.

/Old
//Getting older
///on permanent lawn patrol

Fubegra		2012-12-21 10:43:58 AM

>open fridge Opening the refrigerator reveals a two liter bottle of Classic Coke and a cardboard carton. >take carton Taken. >examine carton This is a cardboard carton with an incomprehensible symbol scrawled on the top. >examine symbol It doesn't look like Chinese, English, or any other language you know. The symbol is like nothing you've ever seen, and yet somehow you know it has meaning. >

Lord Dimwit		2012-12-21 11:10:27 AM

LordOfThePings:
---v----v----v----v----v----v----v----v---
|                                        |
|          ||||||||||        LORD        |
>         !||||      |      DIMWIT       <
|         ||||    ---|     FLATHEAD      |
|         |||C     CC \\                 |
>          ||||       _\\                <
|           ||| (____|                   |
|            ||      |                   |
>             |______|       Our         <
|               /   \\    Excessive      |
|              /     \\     Leader       |
>             |       |                  <
|             |       |                  |
|                                        |
>    G.U.E. POSTAGE        3 Zorkmids    <
|                                        |
---^----^----^----^----^----^----^----^---

You rang?

Twilight Farkle		2012-12-21 11:37:00 AM

Swoop1809: GET farkING LAMP!

A purple unicorn says "Okay, here ya go!"

i.imgur.com

You now have: a lamp, and a link to a Google tech talk presented by the creator of a 2-DVD documentary on the history of interactive fiction.

Sofa King Smart		2012-12-21 11:53:04 AM

interactive Wired interview

Sofa King Smart		2012-12-21 12:39:48 PM

>xyzzy
You attempt to invoke your magical transportation ability to better navigate your way through this game's maze of twisty little passages, but soon realize two things: 1) you have no magical transportation ability, 2) this game has a whopping two rooms in it. Pound the pavement.

Congratulations! You've completed your assignment, learning all about the AIAS Pioneer Award winners for 2013, and put the trophy in a place of honor. Thanks for playing!

*** You have won ***

In that game you scored 350 out of a possible 350, in 35 turns.

Smidge204		2012-12-21 05:17:14 PM

>Get ye flask

Great clown Pagliacci's pick-me-up		2012-12-21 07:00:01 PM

Hello Sailor.

I know late to the party. just correcting an obvious oversight.

Lord Dimwit		2012-12-21 09:13:16 PM

Great clown Pagliacci's pick-me-up: Hello Sailor.

I know late to the party. just correcting an obvious oversight.

You were 69,105 seconds late, in fact.

Epicanis		2012-12-22 12:08:03 AM

LOOK UP

/MIGHT be obscure. Maybe.
//But for Fark, probably not.

Quantum Apostrophe		2012-12-22 12:32:38 PM

Green Bastard: A podium is a low stage. If it was on a stage it would be called a riser. You are referring to a lecturn, which would be placed on a podium, or even a stage.

\That is all
\\Why are you still on my lawn?

"lectern"

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