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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
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You can understand the Vogon guard's response to "hello" even without the babel fish #31

Open eriktorbjorn opened 4 years ago

eriktorbjorn commented 4 years ago

Without the babel fish, you should just here gibberish whenever a Vogon speaks. But that doesn't happen with "hello".

>GUARD, OPEN DOOR
"Iulpfudfudi scavquithaa ri sfud."

Ford continues trying to talk the guard into a sudden career change.

>HELLO GUARD
"Hello to you too."

Ford continues trying to talk the guard into a sudden career change.

>GUARD, HELLO
"Hello to you too."

Ford continues trying to talk the guard into a sudden career change.

I guess GUARD-F needs to handle the HELLO action. In fact, it should probably handle communication similarly to the guards in the captain's quarters, and only answer "Resistance is useless!" (or gibberish) no matter what.

eriktorbjorn commented 4 years ago

It looks like NOT-FOUND-OBJECT-F may need to be fixed, too:

>GUARD, JUMP
"Ikonp ww chuvr gs gr gtoye hcho."

Ford continues trying to talk the guard into a sudden career change.

>GUARD, DROP GUN
Looking confused, one of the guards says, "I don't see any gun here!"

Even if you have the babel fish, it shouldn't say "one of the guards" since there's only one.

Actually, there's already a special case for Ford or the beast when they're asleep, so it probably wouldn't be that much of a hack...