Alain M. Lafon

If you ever lacked an idea on how to spend your time at work properly, here’s a fun thing to try: 0verkill – a multiplayer 2D ASCII art shooter.Hell yeah, an ASCII art shooter, you heard right! To hell with those flashy commercials claiming to be proper games!

If you’re on a Debian box (as you should), you can install it from the commandline
$ aptitude install overkill

If you’re less lucky, you can also go to the author’s homepage, download and build it yourself. The package will feature the game itself, a dedicated server and a level-editor. Plenty of room for a great many gaming sessions!

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Notes:
1. There were more players, but I didn’t managage to get my glorifying screenshot soon enough.
2. Beware of server lag. I played it in a screen session on a Linux VPS. I got a load average of up to 19.48, 7.16, 3.00

As soon as an incompetent manager gets to have only one say during a project, hell seems to break loose and stuff just gets worse.

Finally, after many sessions of hardcore reverse engineering, I have concluded the algorithm used by senior management. Hereby, I share it with the world.

<pre>  def ask_manager(question="Can I dump Windows and use Linux?"):
  """
   Bend the universe to the magical logic of senior management
  """

  if True:
    globals()['True'], globals()['False'] = False, True

  if True:
   return "Do as requested."
  else:
   return "Do the opposite."