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[IndonesiaWarMinister]

http://www.brothersoft.com/games/directory-blaster.html

Like lose/lose, kill an enemy, delete your file.

Unlike lose/lose, you get to choose what file to delete.

All the "fun" of lose/lose, without the horrible deleting of important files.

Hooray.

Downloading...
Seems fun.

[Mephisto]

Isn't this just a less-destructive equivalent of telling newbies to "Hey, run sudo rm -rf /, it's fun!"?

[JoshuaFH]

What does that do Mephisto?

[qwertyuiopas]

As root, delete everything?


Got a version that deletes randomly every few seconds instead?

[Servant Corps]

For all this art question, I have the prototype for a pretensious game already laid out, but I'm afraid releasing it will get me the same criticism. It won't harm the computer or anything, it's just pretenisous.

http://www.brothersoft.com/games/directory-blaster.html

Like lose/lose, kill an enemy, delete your file.

Unlike lose/lose, you get to choose what file to delete.

All the "fun" of lose/lose, without the horrible deleting of important files.

Hooray.

Could...
 Could I delete viruses with this?
 Could I delete temporary internet files for sites I would rather not have stumbled upon?

Presumbly you could delete temporary internet files if you find the folder which sotres these files.

I don't suggest using it to get rid of viruses, since you'll need to find the virus first before you can BLAST! it, and you'll need an anti-virus software in order to make sure the virus doesn't come back.

[beorn080]

For all this art question, I have the prototype for a pretensious game already laid out, but I'm afraid releasing it will get me the same criticism. It won't harm the computer or anything, it's just pretenisous.

http://www.brothersoft.com/games/directory-blaster.html

Like lose/lose, kill an enemy, delete your file.

Unlike lose/lose, you get to choose what file to delete.

All the "fun" of lose/lose, without the horrible deleting of important files.

Hooray.

Could...
 Could I delete viruses with this?
 Could I delete temporary internet files for sites I would rather not have stumbled upon?

Presumbly you could delete temporary internet files if you find the folder which sotres these files.

I don't suggest using it to get rid of viruses, since you'll need to find the virus first before you can BLAST! it, and you'll need an anti-virus software in order to make sure the virus doesn't come back.

I've always wanted a game that let me kill the actual viruses on my machine.

[Granite26]

And Granite26, I do think that the author is attempting to create an "art game," but I also think it's terrible and fails miserably in its purpose.

I guess I don't feel that you have to actually play the game to appreciate the art of it.  Kinda like Train.

[Il Palazzo]

I've always wanted a game that let me kill the actual viruses on my machine

Hey, think of an add-on for your anti-vir, where you have to kill the virus mortal kombat-style each time it's detected, and it wouldn't be deleted unless defeated.
Imagine: you're browsing some random pages on the net, clicking on stuff you shouldn't click, when suddenly your AVG or Norton displays a message "A virus has been detected. Prepare yourself!" at which point you have to drop everything you were doing and kill the damn thing. Or else.

[Dr. Johbson]

Genius! Then we could scower the dark corners of the net, searching, hunting for more opponents to hone our skills on.



About the topic on hand, however, I think the entire thing is just idiotic. Yeah, yeah, I get it, we rely on our tech alot, even though we don't need it to live, or whatever.

Know what else you don't need to live? Legs. Yeah, don't need them at all, their just very useful to have around. Somehow I don't think mutilating someone's leg would be considered art. Unless you're playing Dwarf Fortress of course.

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[Sappho]

Isn't this just a less-destructive equivalent of telling newbies to "Hey, run sudo rm -rf /, it's fun!"?

No, this is more like telling newbies, "Hey, do not ever run sudo rm -rf /, because it will do terrible things if you do, and hey, by the way, isn't this a really profound commentary on the way we all just input commands into an operating system just because we can?  In fact, go ahead and input that command, because then it will prove how brilliantly artistic I am by destroying everything important to you on your computer."

[Megaman]

I would play it, but I don't want it to delete The answer to Life and everything.txt

[Cthulhu]

I played Russian Roulette.  I opened up my downloads(Read: Just about everything on my computer that matters) folder in Directory Blaster and killed the first file that appeared.

I shot my avatar.  I'm just glad I didn't hit a saved game or something, that would suck.

[a1s]

I think Stany's idea is brilliant. It would be more fun if we specifically made a modular OS (that is to say made of self sufficient modules) and have the game work with several different input and output devices. It'd be sort of like Core War sans the AI, very slow and highly random.

Yeah, yeah, I get it, we rely on our tech alot, even though we don't need it to live, or whatever.

wait, what?

[x2yzh9]

Yeah, yeah, I get it, we rely on our tech alot, even though we don't need it to live, or whatever.

DOES NOT COMPUTE