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74 lines
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## To build:
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``` <!---sh-->
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make
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```
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## To use:
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``` <!---sh-->
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./briddlebane
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```
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## Try:
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For some fun every time you log in try running this from your `.bashrc` or
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equivalent file!
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You might also like to try:
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``` <!---sh-->
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./try.sh
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INSULTS=15 ./try.sh
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```
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## Judges' remarks:
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One could argue that this program was a "`diseased dumpster of tripe`"
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but I suspect that would only result in the judges being heckled as a
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"`scum-encrusted congress of obscurity`" (but only if it was in the early
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evening of Dec 22, 2000).
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Can you find out how it stores the insult strings? Can you then take
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an insult and figure out when it will be uttered?
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## Authors' remarks:
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This program was broadcast from deep within the Zarbonic Cluster
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and received at 9:03pm on March 21st, 2000 by Moxen N. Briddlebane.
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The original author, as designated by other components of the
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transmission, refers to himself simply as "Lord Zarbon", though
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offers no information in relation to the significance of that
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post. The sole purpose of this program appears to be to degrade
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and humiliate the people of this planet by calling them names.
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It takes no input, it only produces a single line of slanderous output.
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The program appears to be rather confused, internally. It is
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unclear whether or not "Lord Zarbon" truly understands the
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mechanics of programming. What is particularly disturbing is
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the curious method of insult-encoding employed by this program.
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Furthermore, it is ambiguous how said data is arranged and why
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it is necessary to resort to trigonometric functions to handle
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it. One of the real mysteries involves the numbers `114` and
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`2`, which are, according to Lord Zarbon, very deliberate.
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https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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