The online GW Basher is now
up...<http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Nebula/9774/gwbasher.html>
A totally goofy project that takes impolite varients on GW's name and sticks
them together to make even more impolite varients of the varients!
(It's an applet. You'll need a moderately up-to-date browser).
On a slightly more useful note, I think I've gotten the 3d GZG Starviewer
applet that I also host working again...it's been down since before Xmas.
Thanks to Tom Anderson for the basic applet that powers the GW Basher.
Happy Bashing,
> On Sat, 20 Feb 1999, Brian Burger wrote:
> The online GW Basher is now
This is excellent! The thing is though, "Games Workshop" is actually a
possible combination. You probably want to put in a check somewhere so the
proper name of the company doesn't get shown.
> On Sun, 21 Feb 1999, Chen-Song Qin wrote:
> On Sat, 20 Feb 1999, Brian Burger wrote:
I stuck a note below the actual applet, something to the effect of: "This
applet may occasionally generate GW's real name; we apologize in advance for
your failure to offend GW."
The actual operating guts of the applet is actually Tom Anderson's work
-
the same applet that powers his Kra'vak Name Generator. I just changed the
word lists that it accesses.
When I get better at Java, I'll disect the.class file and see if I can
prevent it from generating GW's proper name - and see if I can get it to
stick 'work' (or varients) and 'shop' (ditto) together as one word. (At
present it gives, say, "Goudge Ork slop" instead of "Goudge Orkslop", which
would be better...)
If you've got a favorite impolite GW varient I've not included in the Basher,
send it to me soonest! (You can check which words are already included by
viewing the source code of gwbasher.html, or by activating the Basher lots and
lots...)
Fun applet, isn't it?:)
> On Sun, 21 Feb 1999, Brian Burger wrote:
> On Sun, 21 Feb 1999, Chen-Song Qin wrote:
"This
> applet may occasionally generate GW's real name; we apologize in
of course, to peeps like us, "games workshop" is actually the most insulting
and risible term the applet can produce.
> When I get better at Java, I'll disect the .class file
ouch! when you get a *lot* better at java. the class file is the compiled
code, and is not human legible; you could, in theory, pick your way through it
with a hex editor and a copy of the spec, but would be really hairy.
you can use a decompiler, but they're not very reliable and tend to stop
halfway through the code with the highly useful message "FLOW ANALYSIS COULD
NOT COMPLETE";
> and see if I can
(At
> present it gives, say, "Goudge Ork slop" instead of "Goudge Orkslop",
i'll have a look for the source code; they must be lying around somewhere.
with the sources, this is a five-minute fix. without them: ouch.
also, i believe there is no 'd' in 'gouge'. ah, the logically pronounced
english language!
> Fun applet, isn't it? :)
it is that. a job well done.
the possibilities are endles, though. hmm, a random generator for manga
technology ("a biocyber warfare blaster!"), star trek technology ("a
sub-proton harmonic field"), the names of communist republics ("people's
free soviet collective") and other pompous terms designed to impress without
conveying meaning.
<ot>
speaking of pompous and designed to impress rather than convey meaning:
http://www.cs.monash.edu.au/cgi-bin/postmodern/
be sure to reload a few times!
</ot>
Tom who thinks that random generation is a good solution for many tasks
currently undertaken by humans