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Chalcedony Starlings ([personal profile] chalcedony_starlings) wrote2020-01-26 11:33 pm

[s0] Flash filk: “Strange Sectors”

Sooooo… [personal profile] davidn just released a video about “David's Dreadful Old WADs” (15m57s), and in his patron chat, after some banter, ministryofennuicontrol joked that they were waiting for the next platinum single from Albion to be “Unclosed Sectors”.

And this led me to remember that “Lost Symbols” (5m38s) was available on David's channel as the free promo track from Albion's latest album Buried Souls.

And then I felt compelled to open Emacs. (This was originally only posted via a paste-site to the chat in question, but afterwards I wanted to make it visible here.)


Strange Sectors”, based on Albion's “Lost Symbols” from the album Buried Souls; filked by Chalcedony aka Ditherian with inspiration from ministryofennuicontrol

[Verse 1]

A monument to youthful days
Electron beam scanning out demons and guns
Nostalgia for Bloodfalls and Barrels o' Fun
When dread rises in my gaze

[Pre-Chorus]

Beware the broken map
By inexperienced hand
And engine code that doesn't check
Invariants and bounds

The tables that it loads
Interpreted as found
Showing that the structures are unsound

[Chorus]

Strange sectors in the Underhalls
Lie waiting for those
Who would dare to replay your

Strange polygons that lack some walls
Inciting such inconsistent behavior!

Pulled apart from ancient drives
Textures pegged and misaligned
Shots ring true, then warp right through the sectors missing lines

[Verse 2]

Roll the dice on the author's name
Was it David, did his brothers mod the game
An emerald torch
Marks out the yellow door

File names made of eight and three
So come and open up the “die” with lots of E's
For just a second, a barrel's rendered
Then it's there no more

[repeat Pre-Chorus and Chorus]

[Bridge]

Vertex bits and
Lines and lists and
Nearby neighbor target fests

One binary
Space partition
Makes for logarithmic tests

In the early
1990s
3D gaming was a feat

Carmack, Taylor
John Romero
id Tech 1 was still elite

[repeat Chorus]


So yeah. >..>


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