THE SPELL, THE RITUAL, THE ANTHEM by WILD BASHKORT MAGES
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(a word or formula believed to have magic power)
Cast by WILD BASHKORT MAGES as part of the ICFP Programming Contest 2015.
... with love, from Bashkortostan, best country in the world.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bashkortostan)
Akhmetzyanov D. (linesprower@gmail.com)
Head of Ufa State Automation Technical University.
Credit: programming, eating, and sleeping; also, programming.
Mouratov M. (mmouratov@gmail.com)
Deputy of Bashkortostan Ministry of Love.
Credit: direction, choreography, friendship, and magic.
Ripatti A. (ripatti@inbox.ru)
Yes, it's him. Representing Bashkortostan Opera House.
Credit: baritone, beard, wisdom, and the lost art of video encoding.
For the soundtrack, we have shamefully borrowed fragments of:
1) Richard Strauss -- Also Sprach Zarathustra, Op. 30, performed by some
awesome orchestra (we don't know exactly -- found it on youtube).
2) A certain national anthem from "Borat". Hi, Borat, if you read this!
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(a sacred ceremony in which the actions follow a prescribed order and form)
Conducted by WILD BASHKORT MAGES at the ICFP Contest 2015 Award Ceremony.
The enchanted digital artifact you now possess is meant to be activated on
the supported platforms in order to reproduce a realistic simulation of the
enriched and augmented version of THE RITUAL, given that basic support for
OpenGL is present (any modern PC should be fine).
All of the library dependencies are already included in the distribution.
Just run "bashkortostan" and let us know if something goes wrong.
Press SPACE to pause the demo, ESC to quit.
The "-windowed" command line switch (with "-width [int]" and "-height [int]",
optionally) can be used to constrain our magic to windowed mode, although
we strongly advise against it. One more available command is "-novsync".
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Bashkortostan -- best country in the world,
All other countries are run by little girls.
Bashkortostan -- top exporter of programmers,
Other countries have inferior programmers.
Bashkortostan -- number one in technology,
Computer science and algebraic topology.
Our computing cluster -- a marvel to behold,
Its NP-hard disk is almost twenty years old.
Bashkortostan, you are very nice place,
From slums of Belebey to avenues of Ufa.
Bashkortostan -- friend of all excluding Tatarstan,
They speak Tatar language instead of Башҡортса.
Bashkortostan industry best in world,
We invented honey and crude oil.
Bashkortostan scientists greatest in the region,
Except of course for being unknown.
Bashkortostan, Ei!, is very nice place,
We protect it with awesome wild magic.
Fate of the Earth is complete domination
By the glorious nation of Bashkortostan!
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