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MacSaber - Apparently, it's a program that uses the motion sensor in the new Mac laptops to make lightsaber swinging sounds.

Thoth logon/logoff screens - Get&(Ghere&*(hat you sme&!    and    Rh~fen kill~@5,.4.1 too and ands of (0(! the empir%&(f~F`fx\$C0.  The complete story: 

While dodging Enforcers, there was something familiar in the log-on/off codes on Terminal 1 (Message 1) of "Beware of Abandoned Rental Trucks". [Thoth text follows]

Previously I had associated the "Ghere" of "get &(Ghere" sort of semi-consciously with Gherrit White of the previous game, but then I noticed the log-out code, "&*(hat you sme&!". Then I realized that this must be a Star Wars reference placed by the Bungies.

In the first Star Wars (A New Hope), there's the famous scene involving the shoot-out in the Death Star Detention Block, just before the heroes jump down into the garbage compactor. Princess Leia and Luke have already jumped down the hole, and Chewbacca is supposed to be next, but he balks and makes a protesting howl. Han Solo says, "Get in there, you big furry oaf! I don't care what you smell!" There's just enough text there to make it decipherable.

This definitely seems like an appropriate mood-reference for this level. I wouldn't want to go there if I didn't have to save everybody's collective bacon with my big guns. And the level does have sewage all over the place. It's also at a point in the game's story analogous to the scene in Star Wars, in which the plot is about to turn in the player's favor, but for the moment things look mighty grim.

Star Warped - software Interactive parody software that includes: U don't know Jedi     Death Star Destructo     Whack the Ewok     X-Schwing     Dork Forces     Flawed Fighters     Tell you I Will

 

String & String Processing (explanation/description) - PSU -  

String literal is a sequence of zero or more characters in double quotes

    “January”

    “” (empty string)

    "R2D2"

A literal -- e.g., “R2D2” -- is considered a reference to a String object. All occurrences of “R2D2” in a program refer to the same object. When literals are assigned to String variables Java makes those variables serve as references to the literals.

String name1 = "";                // Reference to the empty string
String name2 = "R2D2";   // References to "R2D2"
String name3 = "R2D2";

New String objects are created when the String constructors are used:

String name4 = new String();                 // Creates an object
String name5 = new String("R2D2");
String name6 = name4;

      

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