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Of course GMs and staff had invuln flags... the Lord British character didn't play the game normally, he appeared for events.
by gfosco 4y ago
Of course GMs and staff had invuln flags... the Lord British character didn't play the game normally, he appeared for events.
- samstave 4y agoThats fine, im just saying as one of the most prolifics (we were the 24/7 testers at intel) etc... and being there that day - no way this wasnt lit on by default, if exist...
- lozenge 4y agoYeah, they could have caught this with even the most basic Github Actions workflow.
- superrad 4y agoI don't know if you're joking but Ultima online was obviously released 20 years before GitHub actions existed
- lozenge 4y agoGood point. Still, this could have been caught by fuzzing, which is a term coined in 1988.
- DonHopkins 4y agoKids these days... ;)
- xani_ 4y agoSo spend man-hours on developing a feature for one player in the game. or just tell them to type that command once in 2 weeks when he logs on Yeah good fucking idea, let's waste dev time on that!
- samstave 4y agoYeah this death was lit dev / corp communication
- DonHopkins 4y agoReminds me of the "TROLL-FLAG!-FLAG" in Zork! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31846457 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31846457 DonHopkins 3 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Random Ultima Online anecdote #2 – Horses inside p... My favorite object containment related ZORK bug (which I discovered in the origin ZORK on MIT-DM, but which persisted in the InfoCom version), involves the troll holding an axe, blocking the door to the depths of the dungeon, who eats anything you give to him: >GIVE AXE TO TROLL The troll, who is not overly proud, graciously accepts the gift and not having the most discriminating tastes, gleefully eats it. The troll, disarmed, cowers in terror, pleading for his life in the guttural tongue of the trolls. To have killed him in cold blood then would have been cruel, so I tried something else: >GIVE TROLL TO TROLL The troll, who is not overly proud, graciously accepts the gift and not having the most discriminating tastes, gleefully eats it. POOF! No more troll! (I've actually been able to successfully apply this technique of giving HN trolls their own weapons (quoting their own words back to them), then giving them to themselves (pointing them back to their previous posts), to make them disappear from HN!) https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=anticodon https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=anticodon https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33070863 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33070863 But giving the troll to itself triggered another bug, because apparently it forgot to clear the TROLL flag, so you could still not leave the room, because when you tried to go through the exit the troll previously blocked, it said that "The troll fends you off with a menacing gesture." even though there was no troll in the room. Decades later I finally found the Zork source code, and it turns out there was actually a troll flag called "TROLL-FLAG!-FLAG" that it forgot to clear, which the exit depended on. I wrote up the bug in more details, with links to the source code: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19672436 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19672436 [...MDL Zork source code and analysis at the link...] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31846457 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31846457