Dudley's dungeon -- Tuesday, 2 September, 2008

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Average rating: Good
Number of ratings: 14

Comments

Quint Sakugarne	September 2, 2008 00:17
First comment: 1 January, 2008	233 comments written
Not rated because I stopped playing The Game altogether.
Wellan	September 2, 2008 02:30
First comment: 27 November, 2007	247 comments written
Interesting concept, but I can't see much of a joke.
hpp3	September 2, 2008 03:04
First comment: 21 November, 2007	38 comments written
In somewhat related news, I also wrote a similar comic at roughly the same time as this one, which was an odd coincidence.
Slowpoke	September 2, 2008 06:11
First comment: 27 February, 2007	239 comments written
Quint, if I read the rules rightly, you can't actually quitMaltar: [...] I remembered a little saying I learned my first day at the academy. Natalie: Yeah, yeah, I know. Winners never quit and quitters never win. Maltar: What? No! Winners never quit and quitters should be cast into the flaming pit of death. [ Snow Day, directed by Chris Koch, written by Will McRobb and Chris Viscardi ] 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. playing. You can only keep losing. I am not a pro at the game, however. I keep forgetting to announce that I have lost. Like now. Wellan, try http://losethegame.com/ . Hpp3, I guess that means you lost on two different levels.
Hell raising Hawkes	September 2, 2008 10:06
First comment: 2 September, 2008	2 comments written
Mediocre. The "Game" is a stupid concept, and it doesn't work so well in this context either. Besides which, http://xkcd.com/391/
Quint Sakugarne	September 2, 2008 11:25
First comment: 1 January, 2008	233 comments written
Slowpoke: I object to The Game, on the grounds that it is a broken p.o.s., so I set my own rules about it for myself. If someone is actually going to go to the trouble of hanging a bunch of "I lost the game" medals on me, though, they will be entertaining little objects for discus practice.
SomeoneElse	September 2, 2008 13:09
First comment: 11 September, 2006	143 comments written
You know, I just stopped caring about The Game alltogether.
Slowpoke	September 2, 2008 15:36
First comment: 27 February, 2007	239 comments written
SomeoneElse, that might be the poor man's definition of winning. Congrats. Hawkes, while I wouldn't defend this comic as an E-rated masterpiece, I think the joke works well enough. Dudley's never heard of The Game, while Dogley seems to be into it, and it's Dogley's bad luck that a letter addressed to Dudley has caused HIM to lose; meanwhile Dudley is probably assuming that he's somehow lost at NetHack yet again and is just waiting for the grave"Who'd care to dig 'em," said the old, old man, "Those six feet marked in chalk? Much I talk, more I walk; Time I were buried," said the old, old man. [ Three Songs to the Same Tune, by W.B. Yeats ] 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. marker to explain how.
Hell raising Hawkes	September 2, 2008 17:07
First comment: 2 September, 2008	2 comments written
Slowpoke: You have convinced me, I raise my rating one.
blindcoder	September 2, 2008 20:40
First comment: 21 March, 2005	27 comments written
Alright, I have no idea what you're all talking about. I was remember of The Game (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119174/).
T-Jack	September 2, 2008 21:22
First comment: 16 March, 2008	52 comments written
Wow! Slowpoke, just wow! You've found a hidden meaning even I have not considered. Good work, man.
Wellan	September 2, 2008 22:08
First comment: 27 November, 2007	247 comments written
I know about the game (darn, I lost...) and have been playing for a while, but I still didn't find the comic all that funny. Though, on the other hand, Slowpoke makes a good point. Rating +1.
Antheridium	September 2, 2008 22:13
First comment: 17 May, 2007	442 comments written
I detest "the game" and am tempted to rate this Poor. But I guess a Fair is what it deserves.
TK	September 2, 2008 23:45
First comment: 11 August, 2007	69 comments written
I lose! I don't get what people have against The Game - it's not SUPPOSED to be taken seriously! It's just a funny little thing to do.
Ren	September 3, 2008 12:12
First comment: 2 April, 2008	35 comments written
E for good presentation.
GreyKnight	September 4, 2008 21:39
First comment: 24 March, 2006	48 comments written
I too have already won and completed The Game, but after reading Slowpoke's comment I decided to rate up. "The Game" actually raises an interesting philosophical question, can you impose a game on someone such that the rules don't allow them to quitMaltar: [...] I remembered a little saying I learned my first day at the academy. Natalie: Yeah, yeah, I know. Winners never quit and quitters never win. Maltar: What? No! Winners never quit and quitters should be cast into the flaming pit of death. [ Snow Day, directed by Chris Koch, written by Will McRobb and Chris Viscardi ] 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. it? A rule granting the ability to quitMaltar: [...] I remembered a little saying I learned my first day at the academy. Natalie: Yeah, yeah, I know. Winners never quit and quitters never win. Maltar: What? No! Winners never quit and quitters should be cast into the flaming pit of death. [ Snow Day, directed by Chris Koch, written by Will McRobb and Chris Viscardi ] 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. is usually implied in the rules of a game, but it's interesting to wonder what happens when a game explicitly denies that rule. Interesting for about five minutes, that is.
	September 22, 2008 15:04
First comment: 1 April, 2004	431 comments written
The general "penalty" for cheating is that you stop playing.
MadDawg2552	October 10, 2008 19:24
First comment: 6 October, 2008	69 comments written
GreyKnight, I'll give you five reasons that you can't quitMaltar: [...] I remembered a little saying I learned my first day at the academy. Natalie: Yeah, yeah, I know. Winners never quit and quitters never win. Maltar: What? No! Winners never quit and quitters should be cast into the flaming pit of death. [ Snow Day, directed by Chris Koch, written by Will McRobb and Chris Viscardi ] 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. the game. MadDawg2552 counts each of his fingers on his right hand and closes each one to make a fist.

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