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title: Super(de)construction
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author:
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---
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# Super(de)construction
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## text adventure game
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My text-adventure game was (first and foremost a struggle and) an
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attempt to dive a little bit into the world of python and deal
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peacefully with the potential trauma of coding. The first unsuccessful
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try started by making a map on paper with all the possible rooms,
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corridors, spaces and the potential inputs of the player. It was proved
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to be a too ambitious plan though. So this was the time when the
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super(de)construction game was born! My intention was to make a fan
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fiction text adventure game(!) of the marxist superstructure theory.
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There are three basic rooms where the player can navigate : the
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Base-ment, the Apparatus and the Megaroom. People can grab specific
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\"objects\" from each room and check their inventory (for example you
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can have unpaidlabour, church, mostlywhitemen from base-ment, apparatus
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and megaroom respectively in the same bag!). The aim of the game is to
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accumulate enough points in order to bring eventually the revolution and
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win. The fermentation and the radicalization happen only in the
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base-ment.
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Will you be part of the revolutionary class?
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```
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import os , time , random
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\# Setting up the current (saved) state
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currentRoom = \"base-ment\"
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start = True
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graduation = False
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study = 0
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items = {
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\"base-ment\": \[\"unpaidlabor\", \"consiousness\", \"lackoftime\",
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\"dipression\", \"commodities\", \"collectivememory\", \"laborforce\",
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\"survivalmode\"\],
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\"apparatus\": \[\"game\", \"work\", \"symbols\", \"family\",
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\"church\", \"institutionalmemory\", \"army\", \"ideology\"\],
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\"megaroom\": \[\"hegemony\", \"control\", \"power\", \"violence\",
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\"accumulationofwealth\", \"property\", \"mostlywhiterichmen\"\]
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}
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inventory = \[\]
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\# Seperating the text and printing in delay so the content on the
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screen is readable and easy to comprehend
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def printer (text):
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for t in text:
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print(t, end = \"\", flush= True)
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time.sleep(random.choice(\[0.0001, 0.005, 0.007\]))
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print()
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\# Defining the \"taker\" function and setting it up in each of the
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three rooms below
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def taker(room):
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if any(x in spliti for x in \[\"get\", \"grab\", \"take\",
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\"carry\", \"steal\", \"expropriate\"\]):
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for item in items\[room\]:
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if item in spliti:
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printer(\"You took \" + item)
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inventory.append(item)
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items\[room\].remove(item)
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\# Creating the while-loop
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while True:
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if (start == True):
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printer(\"\"\"
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Super(de)construction: The game
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\_\_
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\_\_ \_\_
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/\\ \\
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/\\ \\\_\_ /\\ \\\_\_ \_\_
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\_\_\_\_ \_\_ \_\_ \_\_\_\_\_ \_\_ \_ \_\_ \\\_\\ \\
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\_\_ \_\_\_ \_\_\_ \_\_\_ \_\_\_\_\\ \\ ,\_\\ \_ \_\_
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\_\_ \_\_ \_\_\_\\ \\ ,\_\\/\\\_\\ \_\_\_ \_\_\_
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/\',\_\_\\/\\ \\/\\ \\/\\ \'\_\_\`\\ /\'\_\_\`\\/\\\`\'\_\_\\/\'\_\`
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\\ /\'\_\_\`\\ /\'\_\_\_\\ / \_\_\`\\ /\' \_ \`\\ /\',\_\_\\\\ \\ \\/
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/\\\`\'\_\_\\/\\ \\/\\ \\ /\'\_\_\_\\ \\ \\/\\/\\ \\ / \_\_\`\\ /\' \_
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\`\\
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/\\\_\_, \`\\ \\ \\\_\\ \\ \\ \\L\\ \\/\\ \_\_/\\ \\ \\//\\ \\L\\ \\/\\
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\_\_//\\ \\\_\_//\\ \\L\\ \\/\\ \\/\\ \\/\\\_\_, \`\\\\ \\ \\\_\\ \\
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\\/ \\ \\ \\\_\\ \\/\\ \\\_\_/\\ \\ \\\_\\ \\ \\/\\ \\L\\ \\/\\ \\/\\ \\
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\\/\\\_\_\_\_/\\ \\\_\_\_\_/\\ \\ ,\_\_/\\ \\\_\_\_\_\\\\ \\\_\\\\
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\\\_\_\_,\_\\ \\\_\_\_\_\\ \\\_\_\_\_\\ \\\_\_\_\_/\\ \\\_\\
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\\\_\\/\\\_\_\_\_/ \\ \\\_\_\\\\ \\\_\\ \\ \\\_\_\_\_/\\ \\\_\_\_\_\\\\
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\\\_\_\\\\ \\\_\\ \\\_\_\_\_/\\ \\\_\\ \\\_\\
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\\/\_\_\_/ \\/\_\_\_/ \\ \\ \\/ \\/\_\_\_\_/ \\/\_/ \\/\_\_,\_
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/\\/\_\_\_\_/\\/\_\_\_\_/\\/\_\_\_/ \\/\_/\\/\_/\\/\_\_\_/ \\/\_\_/
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\\/\_/ \\/\_\_\_/ \\/\_\_\_\_/ \\/\_\_/ \\/\_/\\/\_\_\_/
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\\/\_/\\/\_/
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\\/\_/
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\"\"\")
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printer(\"\"\"
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'Welcome to the super(de)costruction game or How to destroy the
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ideological apparatus and capitalism in small steps.
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You are a witch in the body of a cultural worker leaving in the poor
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south. However, you cannot make a living only by selling your labor
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power so you have to use your magic powers to maintain yourself. You can
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become invisible in order to expropriate goods from chain supermarkets
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and share them with your comrades and girlfriends. That's okay!
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Inflation \...
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You will have an extraordinary chance to walk a lead bit through an
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enormous architectural miracle and why not dismantle the master\'s
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house!
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Are you readyyy???
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\"\"\")
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start = False
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if (graduation == True):
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printer(\"You Win!\")
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exit()
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\# Clearing the screen: \"cls\" for Windows; \"clear\" for macOS
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i = input()
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#os.system(\"cls\")
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spliti = i.split(\" \")
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\# Creating an inventory
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if \"inventory\" in i:
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printer(\"The truth is that you don\'t own anything. You are
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proletarian. You don\'t really have private property. However, in you
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current inventory you can find \" + \", \".join(inventory))
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if i in \[\"talk\",\"discuss\",\"debate\",\"ask\",\"say\"\]:
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printer(\"Hiiiiiii witch, how can I help you, now that nobody is
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watching us?\")
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i = input()
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if i in \[\"revolution\",\"finish\",\"free\", \"freedom\"\]:
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if study \>= 119:
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printer(\"You did so many things! You struggle a lot,
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you care, you respect! You are a true witch fighter! Revolution is in
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the corner.\")
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graduation = True
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else:
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printer(\"We should keep the hard work. Do not give up
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though. Things do change and your contribution is valuable! You have
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gained \" + str(study) + \" points. Shall we go again to the base-ment?
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We have to organise stuff! Please don\'t give up. Here is something
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small for you!\")
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printer(\"\"\"
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For it is not the anger of Black Women which is dripping
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down over this globe like a diseased liquid. It is not my anger that
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launches rockets, spent more than 60,000 dolars second on missiles and
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other agents of war and death, slaughters children in cities, stockpiles
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nerve gas and chemical bombs, sodomizes our daughters and the earth.
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This is not the anger of Black Women which corrodes into blind,
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dehumanising power, bent upon the annihilation of us all unless we meet
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it with what we have, our power to examine and to redefine the terms
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upon which we will live and work; our power to envision and to
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reconstruct, anger by painful anger, stone upon heavy stone, a future of
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pollinating difference and the earth to support our choices.
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We welcome all women who can meet us, face to face,
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beyond objectification and beyond guilt.
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by Audre Lorde
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\"\"\")
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\# Choices in the base-ment
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if currentRoom == \"base-ment\":
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if i in \[\"look\",\"see\",\"view\",\"explore\"\]:
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printer(\"Oh I\'m in an base-ment, cool. There is little
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light here. Soooo many people. TheY do work hard. The seem unhappy and
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dipressed\")
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printer(\"You can find here: \" + \",
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\".join(items\[\"base-ment\"\]))
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elif i in \[\"exit\",\"walk\",\"run\",\"door\",\"leave\"\]:
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printer(\"You can use this tiny door to exit the base-ment.
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To be completely honest, you cannot escape that easily the base-ment.
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You wish you could. It can be really suffocating. However you are a
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witch, you have class consiousness and you have your caring comrades. So
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now let\'s move. \")
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currentRoom = \"apparatus\"
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\# The ECTS condition, or the point-gaining system. Every \"study\"
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adds 30 points to the player\'s score. The goal is to reach 120 points
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or credits.
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elif i in \[\"disconstruct\", \"dismantle\", \"poetry\",
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\"street\", \"public\", \"library\", \"counter-culture\",\"read\",
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\"struggle\", \"collective\", \"solidarity\", \"fight\", \"feminism\",
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\"queer\", \"act\", \"expropriate\", \"parasite\", \"organise\",
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\"care\", \"reclaim\", \"speak\", \"counterhegemony\", \"escape\",
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\"burn\", \"collective\", \"demonstrate\", \"zine\", \"create\",
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\"enjoy\", \"disobedience\", \"occupy\", \"protest\", \"manifest\",
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\"shout\", \"sing\", \"anarchy\", \"radical\", \"barricade\",
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\"putaspell\", \"witchcraft\", \"unlearn\"\]:
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printer(\"You have struggled soo much!\")
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study = study + 30
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printer(\"The revolution seems to be closer. Cracks still
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happen and are completely important and vital and powerful. You have
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gained \" + str(study) + \" points\")
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else:
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taker(\"base-ment\")
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\# Choices in the neutral zone
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elif currentRoom == \"apparatus\":
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if i in \[\"look\",\"see\",\"view\",\"explore\", \"open\"\]:
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printer(\"Vrooom, vroom, vroom. You are now in the apparatus
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room! What a contradictory place to be. A wise-structured organised
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chaos \... Monumental huge buildings, computers, archives, cameras,
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people in uniforms, banks campus and other big buildings, and borders.
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Where is the public, though? If you see a little bit closer, it is not
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that solid.\")
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printer(\"Oh look in the apparatus you can find: \" + \",
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\".join(items\[\"apparatus\"\]))
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elif i in \[\"exit\",\"walk\",\"run\",\"door\",\"leave\"\]:
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printer(\"You may use this door to exit the apparatus.\")
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i = input(\"which door? (1 or 2)\")
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if i == \"1\":
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printer(\"You use the door to the base-ment\")
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currentRoom = \"base-ment\"
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elif i == \"2\":
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printer(\"You use the door to the megaroom\")
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currentRoom = \"megaroom\"
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else:
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taker(\"apparatus\")
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\# Choices in the megaroom
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elif currentRoom == \"megaroom\":
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if i in \[\"look\",\"see\",\"view\",\"explore\", \"open\"\]:
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printer(\"Oh You are in the megaroom! You can tell that it
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is luxurious, monumental structure classical and contemporary in the
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same time. You haven't seen something similar before! Wowww. But why are
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so little people? Why the are mostly white men? Don't be stressed - they
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will not notice you! You enter the mansion as a cleaning lady. You are
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invisible to them. However, YOU know how radical our marginal identities
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are! \")
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printer(\"Oh look in the megaroom! There is : \" + \",
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\".join(items\[\"megaroom\"\]))
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elif i in \[\"exit\",\"walk\",\"run\",\"door\",\"leave\"\]:
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printer(\"You use the door to exit the megaroom.\")
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currentRoom = \"apparatus\"
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taker(\"megaroom\")
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```
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