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Friday, 15 June, 2007 by Dion Nicolaas
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You hit the whale. You kill the whale!
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You see here a 130-year old harpoon.
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@ "Wow! This whale became very old!"
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@ "... or is it just that we get nothing but crappy equipment?"


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Rose June 15, 2007 01:10
First comment: 3 July, 2006 79 comments written
Somehow I was expecting a Moby Dick reference
Slowpoke June 15, 2007 03:15
First comment: 27 February, 2007 239 comments written
Wow, Dudley is getting topical, assuming the cartoon is in reference to this recent news item: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070612/ap_on_sc/century_old_whale
  June 15, 2007 03:23
First comment: 1 April, 2004 431 comments written
Nice topical reference, and I agree with the crappy equipment comment. It's amazing how many suits of banded mail are laying about the dungeon compared to (even ordinary) boots, helms, and gloves. It's almost begging a stupid ascension trick...
Nameless June 15, 2007 07:14
First comment: 29 December, 2004 281 comments written
LOL. Dion needs to start writing his own comic more often. :p
Antheridium June 15, 2007 08:52
First comment: 17 May, 2007 442 comments written
I think it was funnier before I read the news.
Grognor June 15, 2007 11:38
First comment: 4 April, 2007 1161 comments written
Heh.

RIP
Dudley
Killed by a falling 130-year old harpoon
Fathead June 15, 2007 19:03
First comment: 1 April, 2006 1136 comments written
Moby Dick? Yeah, me too.

And what's the stupid ascension trick?

Say, on a side note, can anyone tell me why Archaeologists lost the ability to identify gems automatically, and it was replaced by a touchstone"Gold is tried by a touchstone, men by gold."
        [ Chilon (c. 560 BC) ]

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Antheridium June 17, 2007 07:11
First comment: 17 May, 2007 442 comments written
It probably has to do with polypiling. Or else some conduct challenge.

As for the Archaeologist, it's probably the same reason as ADoM replaced the priests' b|u|c ability with the Detect Item Status skill - to give other classes a chance at it.

(Though I will say I haven't been playing nethack long enough to remember when Archaeologists could ID gems automatically - this is the first I've heard of it.)
Mantar June 17, 2007 21:23
First comment: 17 June, 2004 197 comments written
Nah. Polypiling would eventually make the banded mail vanish or turn into something useful. That's hardly stupid. A proper "stupid ascension trick" would be more like collecting every last banded mail in the dungeon and taking them with you to the astral plane, so it's listed in your bag of"Now, this third handkerchief," Mein Herr proceeded, "has also
four edges, which you can trace continuously round and round:
all you need do is to join its four edges to the four edges of
the opening. The Purse is then complete, and its outer
surface--"
"I see!" Lady Muriel eagerly interrupted. "Its outer surface
will be continuous with its inner surface! But it will take
time. I'll sew it up after tea." She laid aside the bag, and
resumed her cup of tea. "But why do you call it Fortunatus's
Purse, Mein Herr?"
The dear old man beamed upon her, with a jolly smile, looking
more exactly like the Professor than ever. "Don't you see,
my child--I should say Miladi? Whatever is inside that Purse,
is outside it; and whatever is outside it, is inside it. So
you have all the wealth of the world in that leetle Purse!"
        [ Sylvie and Bruno Concluded, by Lewis Carroll ]

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holding when you ascend.
Other stupid ascensions tricks have included large groups of wacky pets, iceboxes full of strange things, a collection of tins made from all the major demons, and so forth.
Salisian June 18, 2007 06:33
First comment: 2 April, 2007 8 comments written
The most fun ascension trick is to ascend with an ice box containing your girlfriend's character's corpse from either a bones file or the valley of the dead. Now that's true love.
  September 21, 2008 14:36
First comment: 1 April, 2004 431 comments written
Of course all the good items are missing. The people who ascend took 'em.

Hee: Which character represents a pool of 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 ]

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or moat or a pool of lava?
Newtkiller January 10, 2009 20:13
First comment: 28 October, 2008 127 comments written
Most hard stupid ascenscion trick is to ascend with every artifact. I saw a post about someone doing it in non wizardEbenezum walked before me along the closest thing we could
find to a path in these overgrown woods. Every few paces he
would pause, so that I, burdened with a pack stuffed with
arcane and heavy paraphernalia, could catch up with his
wizardly strides. He, as usual, carried nothing, preferring,
as he often said, to keep his hands free for quick conjuring
and his mind free for the thoughts of a mage.
        [ A Dealing with Demons, by Craig Shaw Gardner ]

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mode, but it sounded so impossible...

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