Dudley's dungeon -- Friday, 11 February, 2005

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Beowulf	February 11, 2005 00:13
First comment: 8 January, 2005	114 comments written
LOL!!!
DraconicBlessing	February 11, 2005 07:40
First comment: 22 November, 2004	5 comments written
Brilliant. No other word for it.
Am Shaedan	February 11, 2005 11:55
First comment: 18 May, 2004	49 comments written
^^ Exellent.
maheshjr2000	February 11, 2005 13:06
First comment: 9 February, 2005	22 comments written
I must say I have never gotten killed by a 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.
LarndeSolen	February 11, 2005 15:03
First comment: 11 February, 2005	2 comments written
Obviously, you are not Dudley.
Nesman	February 11, 2005 15:51
First comment: 4 January, 2005	112 comments written
The little ladyBlind Io took up the dice-box, which was a skull whose various orifices had been stoppered with rubies, and with several of his eyes on the Lady he rolled three fives. She smiled. This was the nature of the Lady's eyes: they were bright green, lacking iris or pupil, and they glowed from within. The room was silent as she scrabbled in her box of pieces and, from the very bottom, produced a couple that she set down on the board with two decisive clicks. The rest of the players, as one God, craned forward to peer at them. "A wenegade wiffard and fome fort of clerk," said Offler the Crocodile God, hindered as usual by his tusks. "Well, weally!" With one claw he pushed a pile of bone-white tokens into the centre of the table. The Lady nodded slightly. She picked up the dice-cup and held it as steady as a rock, yet all the Gods could hear the three cubes rattling about inside. And then she sent them bouncing across the table. A six. A three. A five. Something was happening to the five, however. Battered by the chance collision of several billion molecules, the die flipped onto a point, spun gently and came down a seven. Blind Io picked up the cube and counted the sides. "Come _on_," he said wearily, "Play fair." [ The Colour of Magic, by Terry Pratchett ] 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. was killed by a grid bugThese electronically based creatures are not native to this universe. They appear to come from a world whose laws of motion are radically different from ours. Tron looked to his mate and pilot. "I'm going to check on the beam connection, Yori. You two can keep a watch out for grid bugs." Tron paced forward along the slender catwalk that still seemed awfully insubstantial to Flynn, though he knew it to be amazingly sturdy. He gazed after Tron, asking himself what in the world a grid bug was, and hoping that the beam connection -- to which he'd given no thought whatsoever until this moment -- was healthy and sound." [ Tron, novel by Brian Daley, story by Steven Lisberger ] 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. (while helpless) not long ago. That's what she gets for playing the graphical version. :)
E	February 11, 2005 17:17
First comment: 2 September, 2004	34 comments written
Ahhhhh, Dudley's back to his old self again.
Matt M P	February 11, 2005 20:48
First comment: 13 October, 2004	23 comments written
It was all a dream. That's how they started the season of one show when they found out they got everyone in to big of a mess the previous season
Plague	February 11, 2005 23:58
First comment: 31 January, 2005	102 comments written
Nice job Nameless.
maheshjr2000	February 12, 2005 20:41
First comment: 9 February, 2005	22 comments written
I play the graphics version, and i take offense nesman!!!
Beowulf	February 13, 2005 01:55
First comment: 8 January, 2005	114 comments written
Don't be insulted. The graphical version isn't the original, it's an update. I used the tiles for the first month or so and then realized I wasn't getting the full NetHack experence and switched over to the text version.
maheshjr2000	February 13, 2005 07:05
First comment: 9 February, 2005	22 comments written
WHAT??? what am i missing?
Schnee	February 13, 2005 09:42
First comment: 10 November, 2004	76 comments written
maheshjr2000: a lot, obviously. :)
Violist	February 13, 2005 09:47
First comment: 25 June, 2004	206 comments written
For one thing, the ASCII graphics mean you can be extra-geeky at people... and also it's easier on old boxes. Plus those tilesets limit your idea of what things look like, it's more fun when you can really use your imagination to see waht things look like. Which is scarier, a little round sphereThe attack by those who want to die -- this is the attack against which you cannot prepare a perfect defense. --Human aphorism [ The Dosadi Experiment, by Frank Herbert ] 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. (graphical eye) or this floating pulsating blobThese giant amoeboid creatures look like nothing more than puddles of slime, but they both live and move, feeding on metal or wood as well as the occasional dungeon explorer to supplement their diet. But we were not on a station platform. We were on the track ahead as the nightmare, plastic column of fetid black iridescence oozed tightly onward through its fifteen-foot sinus, gathering unholy speed and driving before it a spiral, re-thickening cloud of the pallid abyss vapor. It was a terrible, indescribable thing vaster than any subway train -- a shapeless congeries of protoplasmic bubbles, faintly self-luminous, and with myriads of temporary eyes forming and unforming as pustules of greenish light all over the tunnel-filling front that bore down upon us, crushing the frantic penguins and slithering over the glistening floor that it and its kind had swept so evilly free of all litter. [ At the Mountains of Madness, by H.P. Lovecraft ] 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. of menace in your imagination?
eneekmot@yahoo.com	February 13, 2005 22:00
First comment: 29 December, 2004	57 comments written
I agree with you, Violist. I play the text version because it's easier to see what's going on, and because it's easier on my old, old, old, old computer. I also am annoyed at some graphical glitches that the tile nethack has (half the level blinking every time you move).
E	February 14, 2005 17:00
First comment: 2 September, 2004	34 comments written
I, for one, like the tiles. It allowed me to play quicker, as i could visually see what a monster was rather than have to check every time. Also ive never had graphical problems with tiles, which i guess helps.
Netaddict	February 20, 2005 00:42
First comment: 14 April, 2004	34 comments written
All ascii for me, and I don't have many problems telling stuff apart. (except for mmf/dwarfDwarfs have faces like men (ugly men, with wrinkled, leathery skins), but are generally either flat-footed, duck-footed, or have feet pointing backwards. They are of the earth, earthy, living in the darkest of caverns and venturing forth only with the cloaks by which they can make themselves invisible, and others disguised as toads. Miners often come across them, and sometimes establish reasonably close relations with them. ... The miners of Cornwall were always delighted to hear a bucca busily mining away, for all dwarfs have an infallible nose for precious metals. Among other things, dwarfs are rightly valued for their skill as blacksmiths and jewellers: they made Odin his famous spear Gungnir, and Thor his hammer; for Freya they designed a magnificent necklace, and for Frey a golden boar. And in their spare time they are excellent bakers. Ironically, despite their odd feet, they are particularly fond of dancing. They can also see into the future, and consequently are excellent meteorologists. They can be free with presents to people they like, and a dwarvish gift is likely to turn to gold in the hand. But on the whole they are a snappish lot. [ The Immortals, by Derek and Julia Parker ] 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. king) that happens occasionally.. I do like it better that way though, frankly, I would have to spend a long time looking for a tileset that doesn't make it look ugly.
rscitizen@gmail.com	March 20, 2005 02:18
First comment: 7 February, 2005	7 comments written
Some things never change eh? For me its alternates between being killed by a jackalIn Asiatic folktale, jackal provides for the lion; he scares up game, which the lion kills and eats, and receives what is left as reward. In stories from northern India he is sometimes termed "minister to the king," i.e. to the lion. From the legend that he does not kill his own food has arisen the legend of his cowardice. Jackal's heart must never be eaten, for instance, in the belief of peoples indigenous to the regions where the jackal abounds. ... In Hausa Negro folktale Jackal plays the role of sagacious judge and is called "O Learned One of the Forest." The Bushmen say that Jackal goes around behaving the way he does "because he is Jackal". [ Funk & Wagnalls Standard Dictionary of Folklore ] 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. AND a 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..
ec	June 16, 2005 18:36
First comment: 14 June, 2005	15 comments written
I've never been killed by a 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.... But I have been killed by a grid bugThese electronically based creatures are not native to this universe. They appear to come from a world whose laws of motion are radically different from ours. Tron looked to his mate and pilot. "I'm going to check on the beam connection, Yori. You two can keep a watch out for grid bugs." Tron paced forward along the slender catwalk that still seemed awfully insubstantial to Flynn, though he knew it to be amazingly sturdy. He gazed after Tron, asking himself what in the world a grid bug was, and hoping that the beam connection -- to which he'd given no thought whatsoever until this moment -- was healthy and sound." [ Tron, novel by Brian Daley, story by Steven Lisberger ] 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.!
Kernigh	July 26, 2005 22:03
First comment: 6 April, 2005	349 comments written
The 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. Comics (22) http://www.nicolaas.net/dudley/index.php?f=20050106 Previous http://www.nicolaas.net/dudley/index.php?f=20050228 Next
Fathead	April 20, 2006 03:36
First comment: 1 April, 2006	1136 comments written
Um, does this one count? A "Nameless" wrote it.
Grognor	April 7, 2007 18:19
First comment: 4 April, 2007	1161 comments written
NNEEWWT.
HK	June 20, 2007 19:48
First comment: 1 June, 2007	309 comments written
Excellente.
Seraphim	December 4, 2007 07:17
First comment: 4 December, 2007	4 comments written
I once played Nethack with a tileset... it was just too much of an eyesore, so I deleted it. Then I tried with the expanded ASCii... I'm sorry, but a ! looks more like a potionPOTABLE, n. Suitable for drinking. Water is said to be potable; indeed, some declare it our natural beverage, although even they find it palatable only when suffering from the recurrent disorder known as thirst, for which it is a medicine. Upon nothing has so great and diligent ingenuity been brought to bear in all ages and in all countries, except the most uncivilized, as upon the invention of substitutes for water. To hold that this general aversion to that liquid has no basis in the preservative instinct of the race is to be unscientific -- and without science we are as the snakes and toads. [ The Devil's Dictionary, by Ambrose Bierce ] 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. than an upside down !. Can't teach an old dogA domestic animal, the _tame dog_ (_Canis familiaris_), of which numerous breeds exist. The male is called a dog, while the female is called a bitch. Because of its known loyalty to man and gentleness with children, it is the world's most popular domestic animal. It can easily be trained to perform various tasks. 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 tricks, I suppose.
Blackened	June 6, 2008 21:14
First comment: 14 May, 2008	31 comments written
Never played with tiles and probably never will. Anyway, excellent 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. joke, Nameless.

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