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Thursday, 3 August, 2006

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-------- \|.@(...\| \|.......######### \|......\| # \|......\| ## -.------ # # ---\|- # \|$... # \|.... Nerdley types: "Dear DevTeam, I have a bug to report."	-------- \|.@(...\| \|.......######### \|......\| # \|......\| ## -.------ # # ---\|- # \|$... # \|.... "If one was to polymorph into an iron golem"The original story harks back, so they say, to the sixteenth century. Using long-lost formulas from the Kabbala, a rabbi is said to have made an artificial man -- the so-called Golem -- to help ring the bells in the Synagogue and for all kinds of other menial work. "But he hadn't made a full man, and it was animated by some sort of vegetable half-life. What life it had, too, so the story runs, was only derived from the magic charm placed behind its teeth each day, that drew down to itself what was known as the `free sidereal strength of the universe.' "One evening, before evening prayers, the rabbi forgot to take the charm out of the Golem's mouth, and it fell into a frenzy. It raged through the dark streets, smashing everything in its path, until the rabbi caught up with it, removed the charm, and destroyed it. Then the Golem collapsed, lifeless. All that was left of it was a small clay image, which you can still see in the Old Synagogue." ... [ The Golem, by Gustav Meyrink ] 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., equip waterDay after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean. Water, water, everywhere, And all the boards did shrink; Water, water, everywhere Nor any drop to drink. [ The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge ] 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. walking boots..."	-------- \|.@(...\| \|.......######### \|......\| # \|......\| ## -.------ # # ---\|- # \|$... # \|..@. "And fall into a pool while on a steed on the same turn that a carried corpse rots away..."
-------- \|.@(...\| \|.......######### \|......\| @ \|......\| ## -.------ # # ---\|- # \|$... # \|.... "A serious inventory glitch occurs by which any wands inside containers you may be holding..."	-------- \|.@(...\| \|.......####@#### \|......\| # \|......\| ## -.------ # # ---\|- # \|$... # \|.... "Become inexplicably transformed into fully charged wands of wishing."	-------- \|.@(...\| \|......@######### \|......\| # \|......\| ## -.------ # # ---\|- # \|$... # \|.... "I hope that this glitch is corrected very swiftly." @ "Nerdley! DON'T DO IT!!"
-------- \|.@(...\| \|...@...######### \|......\| # \|......\| ## -.------ # # ---\|- # \|$... # \|.... @ "Submit." @ "NNNNNOOOO OOOOOOOO OOOOOOOO!!!"	-------- \|..(...\| \|...@...######### \|......\| # \|......\| ## -@------ # # ---\|- # \|$... # \|....	-------- \|..(...\| \|...@...######### \|......\| # \|......\| ## -.------ # # ---\|- # \|$... # \|.... @ "NNNNNOOOO OOOOOOOO OOOOOOOO!!!"
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Comments

	August 3, 2006 07:44
First comment: 1 April, 2004	431 comments written
I have to try that.
Eskimo	August 3, 2006 07:48
First comment: 14 April, 2004	166 comments written
Huh, and the fun part is that such a bug shouldn't be reported? Ok, but Fair just because the "bug" was so good.
Mikoangelo	August 3, 2006 15:35
First comment: 19 October, 2005	82 comments written
I though it was good, both the strip itself and the bug.
Roger Barnett	August 3, 2006 15:50
First comment: 7 April, 2006	143 comments written
Ah, the best intentions...
Fathead	August 3, 2006 21:47
First comment: 1 April, 2006	1136 comments written
Man, it's a good thing that the DevTeam isn't made up of idiots.
Grognor	April 19, 2007 07:10
First comment: 4 April, 2007	1161 comments written
This would be damn near impossible to set up.
DaHusky	June 12, 2007 07:12
First comment: 4 June, 2007	27 comments written
Amusing. Just, amusing.
Fredil	April 27, 2008 04:39
First comment: 17 April, 2008	26 comments written
Just once, I need to try that.