Strip Rock-paper-scissors - Ghost Edition May 2026
You notice small things: a ghost who lingers near the mirror keeps snagging the reflection’s hair, straightening it. Another always picks scissors when you pick rock, as if to teach you the art of letting go. One soft-spoken specter favors paper—smoothing it over your shoulders like a shawl, pressing messages into the fibers: Sorry. Remember me. Go on.
Round three: a ghost from the doorway chooses rock. It is not the same rock as before; this one is older, heavier—a cairn of everything they once held. You choose scissors this time, driven by a sudden, reckless appetite to cut ties. Fabric answers gravity. Jeans pool at your feet like a shoreline retreating. The ghosts watch you with riddles where faces should be. strip rock-paper-scissors - ghost edition
Round one: the ghosts move with an elegiac, accidental grace. They do not play for victory; they play for memory. The first spirit flicks a translucent hand into the universal crease: rock. Solid as a promise. You answer paper, fingers splayed like a fan, because paper remembers rock and also covers it. The ghost laughs—not with lungs, but with the rattle of a window left open in winter. Fabric slips away from your shoulders as if by permission. You notice small things: a ghost who lingers
Neon carpet. Sticky floor. A single bare bulb swings, casting long, hungry shadows that taste like last night’s regrets. In the corner, a jukebox coughs up static that sounds suspiciously like applause. You and three ghosts stand in a circle, the rules smirking between your ribs. Remember me
Round two: the second phantom offers scissors. They are delicate as regret, the air between their fingers a cold slice. Scissors win against paper, and you feel the edge of absence cut another seam. Your shirt falls to the floor in a soft, mournful sigh. The ghosts are careful; they do not take joy in exposure. They catalog the moments—your laugh, the scar on your knee, the way you always look away before someone finishes a sentence.
The audience is absent and yet enormous. The room fills with the climate of things undone—old love letters, half-finished songs, a collection of keys that no longer open any door. The ghosts applaud with the flutter of moth-wings, with the hush of pages turning. They do not gloat when you lose; they attend. They remember what you can’t.
You gather what remains of yourself and button it with hands that have learned the new work: how to hold warmth without clinging, how to leave openings for light. Outside, the city exhales. Inside, the circle you formed dissolves into the ordinary geometry of a room.
cvat
Thank you !! you my hero !
Dtavare
Sweeeeeeeet….
Thanks for the php_http.dll x64 extension…
david
Thank you!!
It is awesome!
The only thing I am missing is the php_zip. Did you already try to compile it?
Anindya Author
@cvat, @Dtavare and @david
You’re welcome. 😀
@david
The php_zip extension is present as a static extension which is why there is no php_zip.dll file. Check your phpinfo().
david
Thanks!
I just upgraded from php5.2. Didn’t know it was static! Great!
forque
Anindya, thank you!
btw, is this a bug: enabling APC extension leads to many errors such as “Notice: Unknown: 1. h->opened_path=[null] …” in every php file, and gives warnings and notices with every include and require? The only bug report fitting the description is here: http://pecl.php.net/bugs/bug.php?id=17141
Everything works fine with ‘apc.cache_by_default = 0’ though..
forque
also, check this out: http://pecl.php.net/bugs/bug.php?id=19836
disabling memprotect may resolve the issue
Anindya Author
Ah, memprotect was probably enabled by the “–enable-snapshot-build” flag. Will compile it again without memprotect. Thanks for letting me know. 🙂
Anindya Author
Here is the php_apc.dll without memprotect. Try it.
forque
All errors are gone now, thanks a lot!
kos
hi, I tried to download this. but link was not working. can you upload the sf again.
Anindya Author
@kos
Sorry for the late reply. By the time I saw your comment the links were working again. I hope you were able to download by now. 🙂
mrSwede
Thanks so much for both PHP and Apache, running both of your builds here.
Anyone else have problems enabling the GetText extension, for me PHP stops working ?
Daniel
Hi, thanks for a great release.
I use curl a lot. After enable the php_curl.dll extension php/apache wont start, complaining about php_curl.dll isn’t “a vaild Win32-program”
Any idea about this?
Daniel
sorry for my reply, should have searched more…
here’s how to fix curl:
1. Curl depends on ssleay32.dll and libeay32.dll they’re in the php folder.
2. Be sure those files are accesible in a folder of the path.
Anindya Author
@mrSwede
I can enable gettext extension without any problems. So not sure why you are having trouble enabling it.
@Daniel
You can also just add the php folder to the Path environment variable.
Francesco
Hi all, and thanx for your job.
btw, i cannot run php5.3.4×64 with YOUR Apache 2.2.17×64:
commenting out lines for php in httpd.conf (LoadModule… AddType… PHPIniDir) apache works… when i try to “run” it with php534 apache do not start.
Windows Events Log says:
Nome dell’applicazione che ha generato l’errore: httpd.exe, versione: 2.2.17.0, timestamp: 0x4cc421d6
Nome del modulo che ha generato l’errore: php5ts.dll, versione: 5.3.4.0, timestamp: 0x4d0904d8
Codice eccezione: 0xc0000005
Offset errore 0x0000000000127929
ID processo che ha generato l’errore: 0x1920
Ora di avvio dell’applicazione che ha generato l’errore: 0x01cbb676acf97e04
Percorso dell’applicazione che ha generato l’errore: C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Apache2.2\bin\httpd.exe
Percorso del modulo che ha generato l’errore: C:\php\php5ts.dll
this error occurs with every your php5.3×64 version…. with ver. 5.2.6×64 it works well..
(“C:\php” is in system path variable correctly)
Any idea to solve this? Thank you in advance..
Anindya Author
What extensions have you enabled in your php.ini file? Please post both your httpd.conf file and your php.ini file if possible. Also, you have not mentioned the version of Windows that you are using.
sink
Thank you.
Who have PHP 5.3 vc6 x64 for Apache?
ADT
Hi!
@Francesco
Maybe Apache is using the old php5ts.dll somehow! Possibly there is another version of the file in a “higher” place reguarding the order of your %PATH%-variable (Maybe in your Windows/system32-folder)
@Anindya
PHP 5.3.5 and OpenSSL 1.0.0c (Apache) are available
Anindya Author
@sink
I don’t think it’s possible to compile 64 bit PHP binaries with VC6 since it does not have 64 bit compiler. Why do you want VC6 binaries anyway? Even in the case of 32 bit PHP, the VC9 binaries provide better performance compared to VC6 ones.
@ADT
Thanks for letting me know. I will try and compile PHP 5.3.5 on this weekend. And I will include the latest version of OpenSSL with the next release of Apache.
Blair
Thanks for these. I was looking for APC that worked with WAMP 2.1e 64bit on Windows 7 and these worked perfectly.
Just a suggestion, can you update your original post with the updated php_apc.dll without memprotect as I’m sure a lot of people won’t go looking through the comments to find the version that works nicely.
Blair
Sorry, I meant WampServer 2.1d. Apparently I can’t edit my comment.
Francesco
my machine: windows 7×64…
I got it….
I worked hard to find the process wich was listening on port:80 and caused installation troubles…(SQL reporting service..!!!)
just uninstall that…and now my “orchestra” is playing good..!
bye… and thx to all… 😉
Pieter du Plooy
Hi there.
Is it possible for you to give me an ETA of when the 5.3.5 64 bit binary will be finished?
Regards
Pieter
Anindya Author
I was thinking about compiling it last weekend but didn’t get time. Will try to compile tomorrow or definitely this weekend.
Tigran
Do you plan to publish a fresh version of php x64 and apache x64 today?
If not, I will be very appreciated, if you specify the ETA 🙂 Thank you very much!
Anindya Author
Yes, new version of PHP but not Apache. There hasn’t been any new version of Apache since 2.2.17. Will post 2.2.18 when it’s released.
I already compiled PHP 5.3.5 yesterday and will post it today after some testing.
Tigran
Thank you very much! 🙂
Walter
Seems the APC link is dead again.
Anindya Author
You can find APC 3.1.6 in the PHP 5.3.6 post – http://www.anindya.com/php-5-3-6-x64-64-bit-for-windows/. I will compile newer version along with the next version of PHP 5.3.
Walter
How do I get PEAR installed with this build?
Evan
Hi, i need to find out what specefic apc version i need.
Im running
PHP version: 5.3.4.0
Thread Saftey Enabled
VC6
Apache Version 2.2.16.0
OS : Windows Server 2008 R2 x64
Each php_apc.dll i try causes apache not to load, any tips would be appreciated.
Abilene Fránquez
Thank you sooooooooooooooooooooo much! n_n
Gerardo Flores
Hello, thank you for posting. I wonder if you can help me, I’ve been trying to install apc on wamp 2.2 on a windows 7 x64 to no avail. I see you have a lot of apc dlls on your downloads on mediafire, I can’t imagine why. Must all of them be installed, (obviously not), then which of them? I downloaded php_apc without memprotect and was able to select it in the task switcher on wamp, I also added the extension and the following:
[APC]
apc.enabled = 1
apc.shm_segments = 1
apc.shm_size = 64M
apc.max_file_size = 10M
apc.stat = 1
to php.ini, next, downloaded apc.php from http://svn.php.net, but my phpinfo() file doesn’t show apc no matter what I do, and apc.php says it isn’t running.
Alan
Hi
Need help i download apc.dll from your link : http://www.mediafire.com/file/jugie86axdfxod6/php_apc.dll
I get the error:
PHP Warning: PHP Startup: apc: Unable to initialize module\nModule compiled with module API=20090626\nPHP compiled with module API=20100525\nThese options need to match\n in Unknown on line 0
I’m using wampserver 2.2 php 5.4.3 apache 2.4.2 or 2.2.22, Compiler :MSVC9 (Visual C++ 2008)
Don’t know which dll i need ..Help please…
Thanks in advance
junicode
Mince!! ça devenais même quoi? Depuis 2h,?, tuips.
Tu m’as sauvé gars! merci.