{"id":34325,"date":"2025-09-10T08:07:41","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T13:07:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=34325"},"modified":"2025-09-10T08:07:41","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T13:07:41","slug":"it-all-comes-back-to-zork","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/10\/it-all-comes-back-to-zork\/","title":{"rendered":"It All Comes Back To Zork"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I posted on LinkedIn yesterday:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/zorklinkedin.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Because prompt engineering is <em>nothing<\/em> to figuring out Infocom&#8217;s parser back in the day, much less completing one of their games (which I only finished <em>Deadline<\/em> using a hint book because I didn&#8217;t have the patience to figure out the parser and navigate the obscure challenges in the games).<\/p>\n<p>Facebook memories today coughed up a Zork-themed post featuring two former commenters here from 15 years ago, back when they were reading the blog and commenting here:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/zorkconversation.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>I keep intending to clear some space or reconfigure my office desks so I can hook up a Commodore 64 or Triticale&#8217;s Commodore 128.  I sure was able to lay my hands on much of the Commodore software I still have from, uh, <em>a couple years ago<\/em>.  Just to dabble with it briefly and probably put it away again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I posted on LinkedIn yesterday: Because prompt engineering is nothing to figuring out Infocom&#8217;s parser back in the day, much less completing one of their games (which I only finished Deadline using a hint book because I didn&#8217;t have the patience to figure out the parser and navigate the obscure challenges in the games). [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34325"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34326,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34325\/revisions\/34326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}