Dudley's dungeon -- Friday, 19 November, 2004

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Robert Barber, Tamer of a Digital One	November 19, 2004 00:41
First comment: 28 September, 2004	64 comments written
/ n newt(kinds of) small animal, like a lizard, which spends most of its time in the water. [ Oxford's Student's Dictionary of Current English ] "Fillet of a fenny snake, In the cauldron boil and bake; Eye of newt and toe of frog, Wool of bat and tongue of dog, Adder's fork and blind-worm's sting, Lizard's leg and howlet's wing, For a charm of powerful trouble, Like a hell-broth boil and bubble." [ Macbeth, by William Shakespeare ] Copyright (c) 1994, 1995, 1996 by the NetHack Development Team Copyright (c) 1994 by Boudewijn Wayers NetHack may be freely redistributed. See license for details.
Crawler	November 19, 2004 10:45
First comment: 24 August, 2004	57 comments written
Is Dudley suggesting that the Devteam are monkeys with typewriters ? That would be asking for trouble...
Schnee	November 19, 2004 16:16
First comment: 10 November, 2004	76 comments written
Sometimes, they sure seem to act like it.
Cetra	November 19, 2004 21:38
First comment: 28 June, 2004	38 comments written
If you wereIn 1573, the Parliament of Dole published a decree, permitting the inhabitants of the Franche-Comte to pursue and kill a were-wolf or loup-garou, which infested that province, "notwithstanding the existing laws concerning the chase." The people were empowered to "assemble with javelins, halberds, pikes, arquebuses and clubs, to hunt and pursue the said were-wolf in all places where they could find it, and to take, burn, and kill it, without incurring any fine or other penalty." The hunt seems to have been successful, if we may judge from the fact that the same tribunal in the following year condemned to be burned a man named Giles Garnier, who ran on all fours in the forest and fields and devoured little children, "even on Friday." The poor lycanthrope, it appears, had as slight respect for ecclesiastical feasts as the French pig, which was not restrained by any feeling of piety from eating infants on a fast day. [ The History of Vampires, by Dudley Wright ] Copyright (c) 1994, 1995, 1996 by the NetHack Development Team Copyright (c) 1994 by Boudewijn Wayers NetHack may be freely redistributed. See license for details. new to Nethack, the dungeon maps might indeed look like a monkey"Listen, man-cub," said the Bear, and his voice rumbled like thunder on a hot night. "I have taught thee all the Law of the Jungle for all the peoples of the jungle--except the Monkey-Folk who live in the trees. They have no law. They are outcasts. They have no speech of their own, but use the stolen words which they overhear when they listen, and peep, and wait up above in the branches. Their way is not our way. They are without leaders. They have no remembrance. They boast and chatter and pretend that they are a great people about to do great affairs in the jungle, but the falling of a nut turns their minds to laughter and all is forgotten. We of the jungle have no dealings with them. We do not drink where the monkeys drink; we do not go where the monkeys go; we do not hunt where they hunt; we do not die where they die...." [ The Jungle Book, by Rudyard Kipling ] Copyright (c) 1994, 1995, 1996 by the NetHack Development Team Copyright (c) 1994 by Boudewijn Wayers NetHack may be freely redistributed. See license for details. went insane on a keyboard, with his favorite keys being the period, the dash, and the \| thing. =)
acheron	November 19, 2004 23:43
First comment: 1 June, 2004	63 comments written
\| is usually called "pipe" :)
Cheapy	November 20, 2004 00:33
First comment: 16 July, 2004	6 comments written
Guys, look at the top left corner of the screens. Book store.
Zeddi	November 20, 2004 00:48
First comment: 5 June, 2004	80 comments written
@acheron: not everyone is a unix-geek :P Devs are, at all, no monkeys... nethack is free - got it? :P
NordenJolt	November 20, 2004 02:10
First comment: 20 November, 2004	1 comments written
"Sometimes, they sure seem to act like it." Dam it, that one was really good, since act is the building blocks of shakespear programs. Oh, and I supose that it is the programming language ShakespearÃ�ï¿½Ã�Â¹. [1] - http://shakespearelang.sourceforge.net/
Schnee	November 20, 2004 20:55
First comment: 10 November, 2004	76 comments written
Well, that comment was actually mostly directed at their development model. Why can't they have a publicly-accessible CVS (or Subversion or whatever) repository that everybody can look at? Why are there no public development mailing lists? Why don't they do pre-releases, announcements, or anything? I can't see a single reason why this closedness would even be a benefit, but many why it wouldn't be.
	November 21, 2004 12:19
First comment: 1 April, 2004	431 comments written
\| is also a Boolean 'OR' function, IIRC.
Calin	November 21, 2004 13:12
First comment: 21 November, 2004	1 comments written
Actually. the pipe, or \|, is less known as the boolean OR, unless it's doubled, as such \|\|. With only a single pipe, it represents the bitwise or, where in (val1\|val2) the binary representation of val1 will be ORed by the binary representation of val2.
Matt M P	November 21, 2004 17:18
First comment: 13 October, 2004	23 comments written
Why don't they do pre-releases, and announcements? Well that's simple, they do this for free and you must ask yourself, what benefit would they have to do the things that you ask for other than it would take more time on their part? The closedness benefits them because it saves them time and energy.
Kal Zekdor	November 21, 2004 18:06
First comment: 28 October, 2004	16 comments written
Hmmm, curious. Is it supposed to say wander in the second panel, or should it be wonder?
Cetra	November 22, 2004 18:36
First comment: 28 June, 2004	38 comments written
"Wonder".
Kernigh	July 11, 2005 04:17
First comment: 6 April, 2005	349 comments written
"Wander". If Dudley was not exploring the dungeon, then there would be no Shakespeare in nethack.
Grey Knight	October 20, 2005 13:59
First comment: 20 October, 2005	116 comments written
I think NetHack and SLASH'EM have a symbiotic development model; anything and everything goes into SLASH'EM, then the DevTeam just wait for the ideas to ripen there and pluck them for NetHack. Fresh from the treeI think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. A tree whose hungry mouth is prest Against the earth's sweet flowing breast; A tree that looks at God all day, And lifts her leafy arms to pray; A tree that may in Summer wear A nest of robins in her hair; Upon whose bosom snow has lain; Who intimately lives with rain. Poems are made by fools like me, But only God can make a tree. [ Trees - Joyce Kilmer ] Copyright (c) 1994, 1995, 1996 by the NetHack Development Team Copyright (c) 1994 by Boudewijn Wayers NetHack may be freely redistributed. See license for details.!
Fathead	April 13, 2006 00:45
First comment: 1 April, 2006	1136 comments written
What's the one-word quote?
Grognor	April 7, 2007 05:24
First comment: 4 April, 2007	1161 comments written
You don't even know who I am.
HK	June 6, 2007 06:56
First comment: 1 June, 2007	309 comments written
The poems stopped!
Kohkelxon	December 7, 2008 13:37
First comment: 8 January, 2008	52 comments written
=O

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