Uplink Haikus... Fear.

mrxak

(url="http://"http://www.evula.org/mrxak/Haikus/haikuarchive.html") Posted Image (/url)

Oh yeah :D. I wasn't planning on doing this until the game was released, but since there's a lot of forbidden release-date speculation going on and not much else, I decided to give people an alternative. Feel free to write your own. Haikus use a 5-7-5 sylable scheme.

RHG is back
Making haikus for Uplink
A really great game

The Mac port is here
Start your downloads, everyone
Thanks to Contraband

Logos show on screen
Kick-ass music starts to beat
Immersion begins

Welcome to Uplink
Try our quick tutorial
It will help you start

Steal a research file
Once you have hacked your way in
Copy it to RAM

Three call-bounces left
Almost traced, it's best to leave
Must delete my logs

Open the console
c-d-u-s-r-delete
Goodbye all their files

Back up your save-file
If you're caught you will need it
It gets much harder

LANs are fun puzzles
Avoid LAN_Force if you can
You'll need admin's voice

When you hack a bank
Why not hack transfer account
Then you get it all

Criminal record
If you get one wipe it clean
Hack the GCD

If you register
You can use custom gateways
There are many (url="http://"http://www.modlink.net/mods.php?modtype=gateway")here(/url)

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I've already written a few more, but I'm going to save them until the actual release because some include what might be considered spoilers (although fairly minor ones). Enjoy!

Edit: Oh, and you can find many more of my haikus (url="http://"http://www.evula.org/mrxak/Haikus/haikuarchive.html")here(/url).

(This message has been edited by mrxak (edited 06-12-2003).)

Guest_Ricia_*

A successful hack
of social security!
Demo kicks me out. :frown:

r (trying to be patient)

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SlaVitiCkus

mrxak is pro at those haikus (and not too bad in his academics from what that picture shows me :))

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Going to war without France is like going deer hunting without your accordian.
"You're dumb." -Rawzer to whitedevil and whitedevil2

grunadulater

The Revelation
Enemy to believers
But they still have Faith

Err... was that a Haiku?

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Trust is a weakness.
Have Faith , the Revelation is coming.

mrxak

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Originally posted by grunadulater:
**Err... was that a Haiku?

**

Sure was.

Guest_Ricia_*

So you think you're safe....
Firewall, Proxy, Voice ID, right?
Trust is a weakness

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mrxak

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Originally posted by Ricia:
**So you think you're safe....
Firewall, Proxy, Voice ID, right?
Trust is a weakness

**

I think you've got a few extra sylables in the middle there...

Guest_Ricia_*

LOL

Yep, so I do. (you'd think I'd be able to count, wouldn't you?)

Knock out the "right", and pronounce "fire" as one syllable. <g>

r

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Guest_Ricia_*

OK .. let me get this right

So you think you're safe....
Firewall, Proxy, Voice ID?
Trust is a weakness.

r

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Adriac

Uplink? Fun to hack -
.usrs, data.dat
But how? (url="http://"http://realitymachine.net/uplink/RedshirtX.dmg")RedshirtX(/url)!

Maybe I should do one about shameless plugging

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I am both worried and
saddened by nationwide
news of increasing rates of
anxiety and depression.

(This message has been edited by Adriac (edited 05-26-2003).)

mrxak

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Originally posted by Adriac:
Maybe I should do one about shameless plugging;)

Heh.

Adriac

Pugging can be good
Especially if shameless
Example - (url="http://"http://realitymachine.net/uplink/RedshirtX.dmg")Go here(/url).

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I am both worried and
saddened by nationwide
news of increasing rates of
anxiety and depression.

(This message has been edited by Adriac (edited 05-27-2003).)

Vaumnou

Some moderators
Are good at writing Haikus
mrxak is one

(this works if you pronounce mrxak as "mis-ter-xak". I dunno how he actually pronounces it)

Never played Uplink
Sounds like a good game to me
Must go download soon

Haikus are easy
I like counting syllables
This is really fun

Downloading Uplink
File is just three megabytes?
This is a small game

-Vaumnou

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Did you know that 63.8% of quoted statistics are made up on the spot?
"He's too late. SEE?!? THE CLIFFS OF INSANITY!!! Hurry up!"
"You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. .... Radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat." - Albert Einstein

(This message has been edited by Vaumnou (edited 05-27-2003).)

Adriac

Em ar ex ay kay

Heh, that's a whole line.

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I am both worried and
saddened by nationwide
news of increasing rates of
anxiety and depression.

Shenlon

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Originally posted by Vaumnou:
**
Downloading Uplink
File is just three megabytes?
This is a small game

**

Eh? I downloaded 21 megs...

Doesn't seem so small to me.

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-Shenlon.
Keepin' it surreal.
(url="http://"http://www.homestarrunner.com")Homestar Runner(/url) | (url="http://"http://www.theforce.net")The Force(/url) | (url="http://"http://www.united-trackers.org")United Trackers(/url) | (url="http://"http://www.resexcellence.com")ResExcellence(/url) | (url="http://"http://www.iconfactory.com")The Icon Factory(/url) | (url="http://"http://www.gamefaqs.com")GameFAQs(/url)
"If you can't hear me sometimes, it's because sometimes I'm in parentheses." - Anonymous

Vaumnou

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Originally posted by Shenlon:
**Eh? I downloaded 21 megs...

Doesn't seem so small to me.**

I downloaded the Windows demo version. I guess the full version is bigger. The Windows full version, I believe, is actually an in-a-box-on-a-shelf product.

(edit) But back to the topic...

Windows file is small
Must be bigger if I buy
Shareware is better

(/edit)

-Vaumnou

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Did you know that 63.8% of quoted statistics are made up on the spot?
"He's too late. SEE?!? THE CLIFFS OF INSANITY!!! Hurry up!"
"You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. .... Radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat." - Albert Einstein

(This message has been edited by Vaumnou (edited 05-27-2003).)

SlaVitiCkus

pronounce his name "em arr ex ay kay", in other words, spell it out

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Going to war without France is like going deer hunting without your accordian.
"You're dumb." -Rawzer to whitedevil and whitedevil2

Adriac

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Originally posted by Vaumnou:
The Windows full version, I believe, is actually an in-a-box-on-a-shelf product.

(url="http://"http://www.introversion.co.uk/uplink/")So is this one(/url) Shareware is an alternative.

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I am both worried and
saddened by nationwide
news of increasing rates of
anxiety and depression.

MacMyDay

Downloading Uplink
AOL connection slow
Must wait for AirPort.

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In the tradition of OF:
#ev3 quote of the moment:
forge: Hey, knife fights are fun.

Guest_shinnentai_*

haiku are about
a magnificent surprise
after the last line

still uplink remains
an intricate game sporting
sitani colors*

i didn't get it right, so you see, actually a haiku is really hard to do. i won't go into detail, as it would require more space than a post in this webBB could provide. just so much: the first to lines are mostly in te style of old chinese poetry, thus evocating general moods by words (like a pond in the green garden for spring, to bring a rather simple metaphor) and then, in the last line, something strange, astonishing (sometimes bordering over to vulgar) comes in, actually "spoiling" the first two (with laughter).

*cf. vendetta test mmorpg