You're right on that point. I remember the first time I came across this game online. If I remember, it went something like this:

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You wake up. The room is spinning very gently round your head. Or at least it would be if you could see it which you can't.

It is pitch black.

> get up

Very difficult, but you manage it. The room is still spinning. It dips and sways a little.

>slap self

Done.

---- You have died ----

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I tried to play through it again, and then I made the mistake of taking the towel from Ford instead of saying the magic words "Ford, what about my home". My house was bulldozed and I died again.

I stopped playing after that. Maybe that means I'll miss out on the humor of the game, but I can't really get into a game that is so deliberately obtuse and actively hostile.