Dudley's dungeon -- Thursday, 15 September, 2005

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Aaron	September 15, 2005 00:08
First comment: 11 March, 2004	32 comments written
Shouldn't the yellow/black lights actually be providing some lightStrange creatures formed from energy rather than matter, lights are given to self-destructive behavior when battling foes. 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., extending the field of view another square? I know yellow lights would, and I'm pretty sure blacklights do too, right?
Nobody Special	September 15, 2005 00:38
First comment: 8 June, 2005	118 comments written
Strangely enough, they do, even if you don't have see invisible. Dudley might be surrounded by rockBilbo saw that the moment had come when he must do something. He could not get up at the brutes and he had nothing to shoot with; but looking about he saw that in this place there were many stones lying in what appeared to be a now dry little watercourse. Bilbo was a pretty fair shot with a stone, and it did not take him long to find a nice smooth egg-shaped one that fitted his hand cosily. As a boy he used to practise throwing stones at things, until rabbits and squirrels, and even birds, got out of his way as quick as lightning if they saw him stoop; and even grownup he had still spent a deal of his time at quoits, dart-throwing, shooting at the wand, bowls, ninepins and other quiet games of the aiming and throwing sort - indeed he could do lots of things, besides blowing smoke-rings, asking riddles and cooking, that I haven't time to tell you about. There is no time now. While he was picking up stones, the spider had reached Bombur, and soon he would have been dead. At that moment Bilbo threw. The stone struck the spider plunk on the head, and it dropped senseless off the tree, flop to the ground, with all its legs curled up. [ The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien ] 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., I guess.
Eskimo	September 15, 2005 07:55
First comment: 14 April, 2004	166 comments written
Aaah, back to thematic nethack again...
Mantar	September 15, 2005 21:22
First comment: 17 June, 2004	197 comments written
There could be a whole mass of ghosts behind the lights, waiting to surround and kill him.
Fathead	July 18, 2006 19:44
First comment: 1 April, 2006	1136 comments written
Lights are bizzare creatures, what with their suicidal tendencies.
Grognor	April 16, 2007 08:15
First comment: 4 April, 2007	1161 comments written
Sadistic wishgranting. I wish for candles. IzchakThe shopkeeper of the lighting shop in the town level of the gnomish mines is a tribute to Izchak Miller, a founding member of the NetHack development team and a personal friend of a large number of us. Izchak contributed greatly to the game, coding a large amount of the shopkeep logic (hence the nature of the tribute) as well as a good part of the alignment system, the prayer code and the rewrite of "hell" in the 3.1 release. Izchak was a professor of Philosophy, who taught at many respected institutions, including MIT and Stanford, and who also worked, for a period of time, at Xerox PARC. Izchak was the first "librarian" of the NetHack project, and was a founding member of the DevTeam, joining in 1986 while he was working at the University of Pennsylvania (hence our former mailing list address). Until the 3.1.3 release, Izchak carefully kept all of the code synchronized and arbitrated disputes between members of the development teams. Izchak Miller passed away at the age of 58, in the early morning hours of April 1, 1994 from complications due to cancer. We then dedicated NetHack 3.2 in his memory. [ Mike Stephenson, for the NetHack DevTeam ] 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. hits! Izchack hits! You die... --More--
Blackened	June 3, 2008 16:17
First comment: 14 May, 2008	31 comments written
Good comic, excellent Grognor's comment.

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