Correct. Those were text adventure games.
I thought about adding a definition of what should be considered a video game, and in retrospect I should have done so.
I was told that the joke is that chickens generally don’t cross the road. So it’s funny that it’s a mundane reason, because it’s weird chicken behavior.
(I have almost no personal experience raising chickens.)
There was a LA legend about generations of chickens that lived on the wide freeway meridian, which had bushes, shrubs, etc etc. It is based upon a true story-
I currently play no games on a device computer, phone, ect. I do have a OLD computer with Diablo 1 loaded on it, which I occasionally have played, but not recently.
I live on a dead end road. My neighbors keep chickens. I can tell you that chickens definitely do cross the road.
I’ve just always thought—and I see no reason to change my mind now—that it was just one example of a “Don’t overthink it” riddle. Another example:
Why does a fireman wear red suspenders?
To hold his pants up.
That reminds me of another joke:
A man is driving his car on the highway at high speed when he’s effortlessly overtaken by , of all things, a chicken.
The chicken starts to gain more and more distance but he’s able to see it take a turn on a country lane.
Curious he follows it to what seems to be some kind of experimental farm.
There he talks to the farmer.
“Yes, these are our experimental breed of race chickens”
“Whoa, and are they tasty?”
“We don’t know, we’ve never been able to catch one”
What about Solitaire? When you win there’s some animation of the cards bouncing off screen, but that can be turned off & if the screen is touched, it ends. It was cute the first time or two but I always bypass it now.
Here’s the mascot for The Warriors
My first reaction to the streaker was, probably start laughing. My second was that I don’t know enough about that situation to know whether the streaker would pose a hazard to the players or themselves, and if so whether stopping them or letting them run off would better minimize the hazard (though my guess is that a “hard tackle” of a naked person would stand a significant chance of injuring them.) Neither of those answers was an option so thanks for the “other”.
Yeah, so many considerations in the streaker situation. Mostly, I can’t imagine it’s up to the individual players. Surely there’s security who are supposed to deal with that kind of thing.
And if not, then it matters whether the streaker is in the way, and whether I’m currently engaged in a play and…
As for the warrior, the image that popped into my head was a modern warrior, someone in modern military gear. Not some obsolete knight or Amerind.
As an NFL player I am probably a specialist with just one job, and dealing with a streaker is definitely not it.
Except that some of those specialists have a job which is “track down and knock down someone who is trying to run away from me.”
Even a guy who plays offense – like Kyle Williams, the Patriots player who helped knock down the fan on the field in the Super Bowl last night – still may need to tackle an opponent if there’s an interception or fumble.
More famously, a guy named Mike Curtis, who was a linebacker for the Colts in the early '70s (and who was known for being a hard hitter and an intense player) took out a fan who had run onto the field and grabbed the football. Curtis explained, “that guy came into our place of business.”
My image of “warrior” came out of the late 1970’s Battlestar Galactica, since that’s what they called themselves there:
I didn’t realize that was about a real event. Here’s a link if others are curious
And that’s not a “streaker”, it’s a shirtless guy. He was wearing long pants.
RE the scrolling question: i move my finger up on my phone, but i use the “down” movement on my touchpad or mouse on a laptop. (Yes, that means i change the default.)
The word ‘warrior’ makes me first think of someone like Vercingetorix, or any random Gaul, Magyar, Hun, Frank, Vandal, etc.
My head, for whatever reason, threw up for “warrior” somebody dressed in (almost certainly historically inaccurate) ancient Greek armor. However, if I saw the word in a headline about some school’s mascot in the USA, I’d assume they meant (probably also historically and also currently inaccurate) Native American.
How old something needs to be for me to consider it “ancient” depends on the context. An ancient computer, an ancient human, an ancient language, an ancient rock, an ancient galaxy are not the same age.
A warrior is a guy with a club, the first military unit you can build in Civilization without developing any technologies.