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Jan. 17th, 2009 07:36 pmLast night we played some Shadake. Lazar was thinking of changing the name to 'Oracle'.
Me: "Oracle? Really?"
Lazar: "Well, Shadake doesn't really mean anything. The person who was going to write it up thought that Oracle would be a better name."
Me: "I think of two things when I hear 'Oracle'. One is something that's so incomprehensible and vague that you can't make any sense of it, and the other is a database program."
I probably should have made a joke about the database program being incomprehensible, but I never actually used Oracle so for all I know it was wonderfully elegant and simple.
Lazar: "It's supposed to mean that no matter what your question is, it can figure out the answer -- any action you want to take, it can tell you how difficult it is."
( game summary )
Me: "Oracle? Really?"
Lazar: "Well, Shadake doesn't really mean anything. The person who was going to write it up thought that Oracle would be a better name."
Me: "I think of two things when I hear 'Oracle'. One is something that's so incomprehensible and vague that you can't make any sense of it, and the other is a database program."
I probably should have made a joke about the database program being incomprehensible, but I never actually used Oracle so for all I know it was wonderfully elegant and simple.
Lazar: "It's supposed to mean that no matter what your question is, it can figure out the answer -- any action you want to take, it can tell you how difficult it is."
( game summary )
