Dudley's dungeon
Tuesday, 4 November, 2008 |
by Eboreg |
Greetings Marvin!
Welcome to Nethack!
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The RN flees in
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Rating
Average rating: Good Number of ratings: 16
Comments
Fredil |
November 4, 2008 00:18
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First comment: 17 April, 2008 |
26 comments written |
Hah! That was great! |
Wellan |
November 4, 2008 01:30
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First comment: 27 November, 2007 |
247 comments written |
Marvin deliberately jumps onto a polymorph trap! |
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November 4, 2008 06:15
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First comment: 26 July, 2004 |
155 comments written |
LOL |
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November 4, 2008 07:20
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First comment: 1 April, 2004 |
431 comments written |
I still can't figure how it was possible in the last year's tournament for Marvin to only appear in the last couple of days and still win the whole thing. |
Excellent |
November 4, 2008 08:33
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First comment: 4 November, 2008 |
1 comments written |
Very excellent. |
jukka |
November 4, 2008 10:56
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First comment: 22 November, 2006 |
57 comments written |
He's just so damn good in the game. |
"Knows of contest, not in contest" Hawkes |
November 4, 2008 11:28
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First comment: 4 November, 2008 |
1 comments written |
I assume that this has something to do with the Nethack contest, and therefore it is excellent. Otherwise I'll re-rate poor. |
Chilemonkey |
November 4, 2008 14:01
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First comment: 4 November, 2008 |
6 comments written |
I like the idea of the RNG fleeing in terror, but I'm totally clueless on this one: who the flarn filth is Marvin? I want to give this an E, primarily because of the RNG but also because it's short (it's hard to make a good joke here in two frames) but...somebuddy gimme a link 'er somthin'? |
Wonderer |
November 4, 2008 16:15
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First comment: 22 March, 2007 |
106 comments written |
http://nethack.wikia.com/wiki/Marvin
You may also want to see some http://nethack.devnull.net/ tournament results. At the moment of writing they only give limited access to some information due to high server load, but it's all there. Try google cache, archive.org, registration or something if you can't wait. |
Looney |
November 4, 2008 17:13
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First comment: 26 January, 2008 |
29 comments written |
When it first went up, I thought it was a reference to the Hitchhiker's . Referring to NetHack tournament results is too obscure to be funny. |
Mantar |
November 4, 2008 18:14
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First comment: 17 June, 2004 |
197 comments written |
Too obscure? On an ascii webcomic devoted to Nethack, it's obscure to refer to the Nethack community's most central yearly event? Heck, Slashdot ran a front- story about this year's tournament.
I would think it's okay to assume that if someone's reading here, they've probably at least heard of the game's Grandmaster, or one would hope. I used to point him out all the time to newbies who would get discouraged and say "This game sucks! It's all luck!"
The comic gets an E, by the way.
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Slowpoke |
November 4, 2008 19:00
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First comment: 27 February, 2007 |
239 comments written |
I've played NetHack for more than a decade, and am serious enough to frequent this site, and had never heard of Marvin, nor for that matter of a tournament. Just a datapoint. |
Antheridium |
November 4, 2008 21:14
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First comment: 17 May, 2007 |
442 comments written |
I hadn't heard of Marvin either... until the LAST comic that mentioned him.
http://www.nicolaas.net/dudley/index.php?f=20041207
Or maybe it was this one...
http://www.nicolaas.net/dudley/index.php?f=20070821 |
Mantar |
November 5, 2008 07:45
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First comment: 17 June, 2004 |
197 comments written |
"Just a datapoint."
Well, of course you haven't heard of him, you're a slowpoke! (Heh! J/K)
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Chilemonkey |
November 5, 2008 15:34
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First comment: 4 November, 2008 |
6 comments written |
Thanks for the tips, Wonderer and Antheridium. I totally get it now. Re-rated E. Time to go some of Marvin's games. |
Looney |
November 5, 2008 18:12
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First comment: 26 January, 2008 |
29 comments written |
Not everyone who plays NetHack does so on public servers, you know. After all, it's the exact game when you run it on your own computer, and the interface is usually better. |
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