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Palace Gate(宫殿门) Sharp words between the superpowers. Tanks in East Berlin. And now, reports the BBC, rumors of a satellite blackout. It's enough to spoil your continental breakfast. 超级大国之间言辞激烈。坦克开进了东柏林。而现在,BBC 报道说,有卫星通讯中断的传闻。这足以毁掉你的欧式早餐。
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Brian Moriarty wrote it for Infocom in 1986. The title is the codename of the first atomic test. It is the most literary thing Infocom published — a prose poem about the bomb, with puzzles in it.
Jonathan Blow calls it a formative influence on Braid. Years later he hid Moriarty's GDC lecture inside The Witness, in full.
I wanted it to open without an install, and to read in Chinese without losing the English.
It does both, in a browser.