joshthenesnerd Posted March 12, 2018 (edited) ok, so, you like doom. you scroll on doomworld and doomwiki a lot.. eventually you'll notice that a lot of things on the wiki work their way back to fraggle. and because of that, i propose a game: the 6 degrees of fraggle howard. after about 45 minutes in discord talking this thing out with him a little, i've gotten down to only three rules: 1. click the random page link 2. in as clicking as few doomwiki links as possible get to this page: https://doomwiki.org/wiki/Simon_Howard_(Fraggle) 3. without using the categories or the link to the user who last edited the page good luck. ok, i've noticed the "sourceports" page are making this a little trivial, so new rule: you cannot use the page listing all the sourceports in your journey as an example: i hit the random page button, got to doom arcade. from there clicked on pwad, then wad, then fragglescript then got to fraggle's page. the article on doom arcade. doom arcade has a fraggle number of 4 (for every link clicked, that adds 1 to the number. just like kevin bacon). Edited March 12, 2018 by joshthenesnerd : one page made it trivial 6 Share this post Link to post
Edward850 Posted March 12, 2018 It's almost as if the community shares a lot of work or something. 3 Share this post Link to post
fraggle Posted March 12, 2018 At last, the day has arrived. Finally I'm the Kevin Bacon of Doom 33 Share this post Link to post
joshthenesnerd Posted March 12, 2018 4 minutes ago, fraggle said: At last, the day has arrived. Finally I'm the Kevin Bacon of Doom "the kevin bacon of doom" is what you shall be remembered as from now on. :P 4 Share this post Link to post
StevenC21 Posted March 12, 2018 @Linguica Please make ^ fraggle's new rank. Please, if you love doomworld.com, you will do this. 2 Share this post Link to post
Linguica Posted March 12, 2018 https://doomwiki.org/wiki/Chris_Bourke_(purist) -> disambiguation -> https://doomwiki.org/wiki/Doom_community_jargon#P -> link to fraggle in "Fragglescript" 2 Share this post Link to post
StevenC21 Posted March 12, 2018 @Linguica You are now my favorite admin on anything. 3 Share this post Link to post
Pure Hellspawn Posted March 12, 2018 (edited) https://doomwiki.org/wiki/Doom_source_code_files -> Doom source code -> Source port -> https://doomwiki.org/wiki/Chocolate_Doom -> fraggle. Even the original doom source code files cannot escape the might of the fraggle. 0 Share this post Link to post
fraggle Posted March 12, 2018 3 hours ago, joshthenesnerd said: i hit the random page button, got to doom arcade. from there clicked on pwad, then wad, then fragglescript then got to fraggle's page. the article on doom arcade. doom arcade has a fraggle number of 4 (for every link clicked, that adds 1 to the number. just like kevin bacon). Doom Arcade -> ZDoom -> Freedoom -> Me makes 3 0 Share this post Link to post
TheUltimateDoomer666 Posted March 12, 2018 https://doomwiki.org/wiki/MAP11:_Teleport_Center_(The_Rebirth) -> Music -> OPL emulation -> Chocolate Doom -> Fraggle 0 Share this post Link to post
Bauul Posted March 12, 2018 I'm not very good at this. My random page was Eternal Doom, which then went Team TNT > Doom 2 > Cover art > id Software > Timeline > Hexen: Deathkings of the Dark Citidel > Korax > Hit point > Status bar > Doom guy > Space marine > rapid-deployment > The US Army's 82nd Airborne Division > Iraqi Security Forces > Republic of Iraq > the Tigris–Euphrates river system > and then I realized I'd ended up on Wikipedia. 23 Share this post Link to post
Pure Hellspawn Posted March 12, 2018 13 minutes ago, Bauul said: I'm not very good at this. My random page was Eternal Doom, which then went Team TNT > Doom 2 > Cover art > id Software > Timeline > Hexen: Deathkings of the Dark Citidel > Korax > Hit point > Status bar > Doom guy > Space marine > rapid-deployment > The US Army's 82nd Airborne Division > Iraqi Security Forces > Republic of Iraq > the Tigris–Euphrates river system > and then I realized I'd ended up on Wikipedia. I went Eternal Doom -> Vanilla Doom -> Source Ports -> Chocolate Doom -> Fraggle. 1 Share this post Link to post
SleepyVelvet Posted March 12, 2018 (edited) My first try was 2 clicks because I was lucky enough to land on another person's page, https://doomwiki.org/wiki/RestlessRodent -> Chocolate Doom -> Simon Howard (Fraggle) but otherwise it's usually maps, which usually 4 clicks, maximum. MAP06: Generic Mapname -> Sector -> Source Port -> Chocolate Doom -> Simon Howard (Fraggle) The metagame is already getting stale for map pages. 0 Share this post Link to post
galileo31dos01 Posted March 12, 2018 Ok, let's see how far I get... MAP14: Power Outage (Scythe) > Chaingun > Player > Voodoo doll > Incomplete healing from Gerald > Strife minor characters - Hub 1 > Programmer > Monster > Parameter > Doom95 > Doom engine > Doom source code > Paul Radek > Doom engine > Source port > Chocolate Doom > Simon Howard (Fraggle) Results: I need to go to bed. 2 Share this post Link to post
joshthenesnerd Posted March 12, 2018 1 hour ago, fraggle said: Doom Arcade -> ZDoom -> Freedoom -> Me makes 3 Doom Arcade -> ZDoom -> you makes 2. if zdoom is linked on a wiki page, the fraggle number is 2 0 Share this post Link to post
Linguica Posted March 12, 2018 My god... these shortcuts... is fraggle too powerful for the fraggle game? 1 Share this post Link to post
Catpho Posted March 12, 2018 5 hours ago, fraggle said: At last, the day has arrived. Finally I'm the Kevin Bacon of Doom Good4u Ive just logged in, and saw this lol. Congratz dude! Better than 3 of your previous custom titles combined :D My attempt: Christian Lian (darkreaver)->Community Chest 4->Cacowards->Cacowards 2015->You 1 Share this post Link to post
GuyMcBrofist Posted March 12, 2018 PocketStation DOOM -> Damaging floor -> Ouch face -> ZDoom -> Simon Howard (Fraggle) 0 Share this post Link to post
Tristan Posted March 12, 2018 Brian Frank > Hexen > ACS > ZDoom > Fraggle Rock 0 Share this post Link to post
Pegleg Posted March 12, 2018 The Oracle of Bacon allows you to (among other things) determine the lowest Bacon Number for any given actor/actress with an entry on The Internet Movie Database. I also remember reading about a guy (probably more than one) who wrote a program to automatically comb through imdb and determine which actors/actresses had high Bacon numbers, all in an effort to join the "Hall of Fame" of people who found actors/actresses with high Bacon numbers (yes, this used to be a thing). The question I now pose to Doomworld is: will someone do something like either of these (or both of them) with Six Degress of Simon Howard (or Six Degrees of Fraggle or whatever we've decided to call this game)? 0 Share this post Link to post
MFG38 Posted March 12, 2018 MAP02: Hall King (Whitemare 2) -> Sector -> FraggleScript -> The Man Himself. 0 Share this post Link to post
fraggle Posted March 12, 2018 5 hours ago, Pegleg said: Six Degress of Simon Howard (or Six Degrees of Fraggle or whatever we've decided to call this game)? "Fraggle Howard" does weird me out a teensy bit. 1 Share this post Link to post
Jon Posted March 12, 2018 The most shocking thing to me about this is the fact Fraggle was on discord. Which discord? We miss you on IRC! 0 Share this post Link to post
printz Posted March 12, 2018 Ah, so easy. Beldin (some Strife dude) -> Strife -> Chocolate Doom (see? It's all due to Chocolate Doom!) -> fraggle I wish FraggleScript also lived a good life. 0 Share this post Link to post
joshthenesnerd Posted March 12, 2018 1 hour ago, printz said: see? It's all due to Chocolate Doom! actually, when i discovered the game, it was all due to links to fragglescript and SMMU 0 Share this post Link to post
Xeriphas1994 Posted March 12, 2018 From every page: Entryway --> Artwork of Doom --> Simon Howard (fraggle) (3) Entryway --> Freedoom --> Simon Howard (fraggle) (3) History tab --> "oldest" link at the top or bottom --> User:Fraggle --> Simon Howard (fraggle) (4, but less likely to work with a newer article) From every page, if you have the default desktop skin with the left-hand menus: Chocolate Doom --> Simon Howard (fraggle) (2) Eternity Engine --> Simon Howard (fraggle) (2) Doom Wiki:Central Processing --> User:Fraggle --> Simon Howard (fraggle) (3) Doom Wiki:Central Processing --> Doom Wiki:Central Processing/2006 --> Simon Howard (fraggle) (3) Strife --> Strife: Veteran Edition --> Simon Howard (fraggle) (3) Hacx --> Chocolate Doom --> Simon Howard (fraggle) (3) Help:User groups --> User:Fraggle --> Simon Howard (fraggle) (3) IRC --> several channels --> Simon Howard (fraggle) (3) A random page: E1M7: The Crypts (Heretic) --> Gargoyle --> Sound --> Simon Howard (fraggle) (3). But someday, we will compare multiple node builders in each "Map data" subsection, at which time there will be a link to BSP (node builder) and it becomes 2. :D 1 Share this post Link to post
Quasar Posted March 13, 2018 @Xeriphas1994 I would consider use of the Monaco sidebar to be cheating for this kind of game, since the menu links do not imply any sort of topical relationship between articles. 0 Share this post Link to post