Title adjustments in 2024/ferguson[12]
This did involve updates to news.{md,html} and years.html. The prize in
diabolical logistics now reflects the title of the game and the prize in
yil-tas has a capitalisation fix (that was missed yesterday).
Also reworded some of the text of 2024/ferguson1/index.html.
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@@ -87,24 +87,16 @@ Here is our travel guide:
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alt="Hell In A Handcart Travel Company Oregon Trail travel guide"
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width=640 height=720>
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But before I help any sinners embark on this once in a lifetime journey, for
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those who might be disconcerted with the idea of the theme (even though it's
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ridiculous with something going back to 66m years ago, to several centuries ago
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all the way back to the 1950s, all the while taking place in the 1800s),
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**PLEASE** either read the (probably totally unnecessary)
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[disclaimer](#disclaimer) or skip this perilous journey entirely. Obviously the
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judges will have no choice in the matter :-) but it's not really for them anyway
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but rather in case this wins (which, of course, it did).
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But before I help any sinners embark on this once in a lifetime journey, some
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travellers might wish to look at the [commentary on the jokes](#jokes) (and
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possibly the [disclaimer](#disclaimer)) as well as the [humour](#humour)
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section, [historical references](#history) and [cultural references](#cultural)
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as well. The commentary is primarily for those who might be uncomfortable with
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the jokes that go with the theme. Probably totally unnecessary, especially given
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the [Best abuse of the user](https://www.ioccc.org/2000/briddlebane/index.html)
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IOCCC entry from 2000 that directly insults the player but just in case...
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Everyone might or might not want to look at the [commentary on the
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jokes](#jokes) as well as the [humour](#humour) section, [historical
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references](#history) and [cultural references](#cultural) as well. The
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commentary is primarily for those who might be uncomfortable with the jokes that
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go with the theme. Probably totally unnecessary, especially given the [Best
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abuse of the user](https://www.ioccc.org/2000/briddlebane/index.html) IOCCC
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entry from 2000 that directly insults the player but just in case...
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Now, back to the good stuff!
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Now, back to the good stuff (not that the jokes are not a good part of it)!
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This program is an **ABSOLUTELY ABSURD PARODY** of the classic Oregon Trail,
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although it's actually something else entirely now, hence the name change (not
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@@ -280,15 +272,15 @@ before it happens is one thing but if it succeeds it's even more ludicrous (and
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funny - and also perhaps sardonic).
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And if you do succeed you get some things too but not all of what you might
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expect! It might be called a kind of damaging (some might say 'damning') event but it
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fits the theme quite well and although it (and this is not the only case this
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happens in the game) might not be something most people care to think about (but
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see [Disclaimer](#disclaimer) and also [what the judges LIKE](#vomitory), yes
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cannibalism does in fact occur in the game, to be blunt (not that the judges
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like THAT but you'll see what I mean if you read that section: which is by no
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means necessary for most people!). Of course it's happened throughout history
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including on the trail so even if the judges did not like to throw up (and
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laugh, which I would guess they will also be doing), it still fits well.
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expect! It might be called a kind of damaging (some might say 'damning') event
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but it fits the theme quite well and although it (and this is not the only case
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this happens in the game) might not be something most people care to think about
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(but see [what the judges LIKE](#vomitory), yes cannibalism does in fact occur
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in the game, to be blunt (not that the judges like THAT but you'll see what I
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mean if you read that section: which is by no means necessary for most people!).
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Of course it's happened throughout history including on the trail so even if the
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judges did not like to throw up (and laugh, which I would guess they will also
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be doing), it still fits well.
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There are actually far more ridiculous examples of this, things that make no
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sense, like most of the game. But that's what makes it so much fun. There are
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@@ -358,8 +350,8 @@ are even better here](#emojis).
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The jokes that have what some people might question actually have multiple
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interpretations and if one goes to what they find 'questionable' that's actually
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on their end and very possibly (in many cases this is almost certainly the case)
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not even my original idea. But that's discussed in the [disclaimer](#disclaimer)
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and the [commentary on the jokes](#jokes).
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not even my original idea. But that's discussed in the [commentary on the
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jokes](#jokes).
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For those who are curious enough but do not want to try and figure it out: I do
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offer a section of some of the [differences](#differences) from the May
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@@ -432,7 +424,8 @@ and easily amused.
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### Disclaimer
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</div>
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**PUBLIC HEALTH ADVISORY**: as everyone will have noticed I write a lot. So IF
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**PUBLIC HEALTH ADVISORY**: as everyone who already knows me, and as new people
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will have noticed already: I write a lot. So IF
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you believe that all I have written is circumlocution, and you have
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circumlocutophobia aka logoblabberophobia (fear of circumlocution - yes those
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are made up), and you also have hippopotomonstrosesquipedalobibliophobia (fear
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@@ -500,9 +493,11 @@ Anyway: if the idea of a pact with the devil (or in this case, the narrator! :-)
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:-) ) does offend you, and I suppose that's the real one for some people, I can
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offer only: it's nothing serious and all in good fun; there are a lot of jokes
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and in fact **the PLAYER CHARACTER (PC) is playfully MOCKED** by the narrator
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**EXACTLY FOR** this pact and their behaviour! As you'll notice the narrator
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also has a somewhat dubious character (which is also how it would go in real
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life, given what the narrator is) but also in vague and ambiguous ways.
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**EXACTLY FOR** this pact and their behaviour! Of course as the narrator is the
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devil that means the devil is mocking the PC for making a pact with the devil,
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which makes it even more ridiculous. As you'll notice the narrator also has a
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somewhat dubious character (which is also how it would go in real life, at least
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if it existed, given what the narrator is) but also in vague and ambiguous ways.
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That is also discussed later in the humour subsection. As I note elsewhere I
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think, I have a personal problem with labelling people a sinner and I cannot
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