"Zarfian" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1997, Kory Heath, “So Far - One Lousy Point”, in rec.games.int-fiction (Usenet)",
          "text": "This \"game\" is obviously an elaborate Rorschach test administered to the unsuspecting denizens of rec.*.if, whose reactions have no doubt been tabulated and incorporated into some sinister Zarfian plot - to what dark end, I shudder to imagine.",
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          "ref": "1998, Jake Wildstrom, “[COMP '98] Reviews (Feel free to hate me for them...)”, in rec.games.int-fiction (Usenet)",
          "text": "Zarfian surrealism without Zarfian skill or subtlety. Beats reader over the head a bit with emotions.",
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          "ref": "2007, Jeremy Douglass, Command Lines, page 88",
          "text": "The “Zarfian Cruelty Scale” rates games as Merciful, Polite, Tough, Nasty, or Cruel. The scale describes how works of IF become unwinnable, especially how and when the interactor (here a player, and one trying to win) learns this.",
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