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These violent delights
- the_af 5y agoWell, sometimes violence is the answer ;) It's a delightful change to read Zarf on technical matters; to me he is mostly one of the grand masters of Interactive Fiction (aka "text adventure games" in their most advanced form).
- AlphaWeaver 5y agoIf you've never had the chance to work with Inform 6 / Inform 7, it's a neat little language. Very odd architecture, but Inform 7 has one of the most interesting methods of world modeling that I've ever seen. At one point I did a project using Inform 7's world modeling as the underlying "details engine" for a game, to help make the game world feel more realistic. It was somewhat clunky, but the potential is there for someone to do something like this in the future :)
- sp332 5y agoReading Inform 7 code can be a weird experience. It starts very naturally describing rooms and items, but then you start to see the seams between the colorful language that authors put into the game and the strict syntax of the game engine itself. There's a Twitter bot that posts snippets of Inform 7 code out of context. https://twitter.com/inform_dreams https://twitter.com/inform_dreams
- falcor84 5y agoI was a bit disappointed that TFA doesn't expand its title quote. Here's the full verse of this Shakespearean aphorism, which was also used to great effect on Westworld: "These violent delights have violent ends And in their triumph die, like fire and powder, Which as they kiss consume. The sweetest honey Is loathsome in his own deliciousness And in the taste confounds the appetite. Therefore love moderately; long love doth so; Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow." Romeo & Juliet - Act 2 Scene 6
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- pmarreck 5y agoI'd love a machine learning powered shakespeare-to-modern-english translator because I feel that this is both beautiful and that I'm barely understanding it (but I'm also not really a literature guy). > Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow What is this trying to say, for example? When love is happening too fast, every moment apart feels like an eternity and thus the next time together always arrives "too tardy"? And... wait, what? I feel like I'm not quite grasping it
- yed 5y agoYou might just be overthinking it. It means the same as “slow and steady wins the race”.
- nh23423fefe 5y agoYeah I felt something like > The candle that burns twice as bright, burns half as long a hot love burns itself out
- j4yav 5y agoExactly. Specifically it is saying being too early/fast is just as wrong as being too late/slow.
- dfabulich 5y agoThere's a very limited corpus of Shakespeare, and so plenty of folks have already manually translated Shakespeare into "modern." Here's Sparknotes, hardly the best: https://www.sparknotes.com/nofear/shakespeare/romeojuliet/page_132/ https://www.sparknotes.com/nofear/shakespeare/romeojuliet/pa... > These sudden joys have sudden endings. They burn up in victory like fire and gunpowder. When they meet, as in a kiss, they explode. Too much honey is delicious, but it makes you sick to your stomach. Therefore, love each other in moderation. That is the key to long-lasting love. Too fast is as bad as too slow.
- not2b 5y agoI like the subtle Alice's Restaurant reference: Remember my bug? This is a song about my bug.