Dudley's dungeon -- Monday, 9 July, 2007

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Average rating: Fair
Number of ratings: 17

Comments

Antheridium	July 9, 2007 02:34
First comment: 17 May, 2007	442 comments written
Evidently there's something I'm not getting... (so I'm not going to rate it.)
DaHusky	July 9, 2007 06:58
First comment: 4 June, 2007	27 comments written
Building refers to the verb to build, building means it is being done.. So why do we call them buildings when they are done, and not built which would literally mean they are done
Antheridium	July 9, 2007 07:13
First comment: 17 May, 2007	442 comments written
That's not what I didn't get. More like, what's so funny about putting this in Nethack.
Grognor	July 9, 2007 09:32
First comment: 4 April, 2007	1161 comments written
The joke is that it's not funny? Not funny.
Dav	July 9, 2007 15:59
First comment: 26 June, 2004	147 comments written
Agree with Grognor.
ThomasLB	July 9, 2007 16:51
First comment: 7 September, 2006	13 comments written
The artist is making a statement about the importance of context to humor. And man, I hope this isn't the first in a series...
Slowpoke	July 9, 2007 17:08
First comment: 27 February, 2007	239 comments written
I gave this to Dion with the instructions to publish it only if he ran out of submissions from everyone else. If that's the case, then the real meaning of this comic is: Everyone, get busy! ThomasLB: No, it's the SECOND in a series - a takeoff on a recent one authored by another - and the last as far as I am concerned. If someone wishes to inflict a Benny Hill continuation, that's their business. And no, there's no deep meaning to it. Just the nonsense of juxtaposition - Jerry Seinfeld blithely performing his standup routine involving observational humor even though he's been transported into the Nethack realm. His joke doesn't work - the joke about it doesn't work - that's the joke, as Grognor understood (and disliked).
Slowpoke	July 9, 2007 17:23
First comment: 27 February, 2007	239 comments written
BTW, to save anyone the trouble of searching, http://www.nicolaas.net/dudley/index.php?f=20070626 is the Batman comic that previously involved "Jokes that don't work in Nethack" a couple of weeks ago. My peculiar sense of humor brought me to "oh, you wanna see a joke that REALLY doesn't work?"
Dion	July 9, 2007 22:34
First comment: 2 February, 2004	100 comments written
What a fantastic distribution of ratings, given the comments.
videocrazy	July 10, 2007 22:24
First comment: 25 March, 2007	10 comments written
I think the joke was that there are no building in nethack
Antheridium	July 11, 2007 07:09
First comment: 17 May, 2007	442 comments written
No, there are buildings, if not very many of them. (Minetown, some of the QuestMany, possibly most, Tours are organized as a Quest. This is like a large-scale treasure hunt, with clues scattered all over the continent, a few false leads, Mystical Masters as game-show hosts, and the Dark Lord and the Terrain to make the Quest interestingly difficult. [...] In order to be assured of your future custom, the Management has a further Rule: Tourists, far from being rewarded for achieving their Quest Object, must then go on to conquer the Dark Lord or set about Saving the World, or both. And why not? By then you will have had a lot of practice in that sort of thing and, besides, the Quest Object is usually designed to help you do it. [ The Tough Guide to Fantasyland, by Diana Wynne Jones ] 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. levels, the Castle, to name a few.)
Fathead	July 11, 2007 18:51
First comment: 1 April, 2006	1136 comments written
No! Wait! There was no audience!
1338h4x	July 24, 2007 19:35
First comment: 19 September, 2006	102 comments written
I thought it said "Jokes that don't work in NetHack", not "Jokes that don't work, period". I like the idea, but none of these are any good.
Bulding Hawkes	July 11, 2008 14:20
First comment: 11 July, 2008	1 comments written
I rate it good to try and bump the ratings to be more even. I actually think it is shit, but hey.
grue	August 10, 2008 03:00
First comment: 10 August, 2008	2 comments written
hehe The most funny part about this is that (at time of posting) there wereIn 1573, the Parliament of Dole published a decree, permitting the inhabitants of the Franche-Comte to pursue and kill a were-wolf or loup-garou, which infested that province, "notwithstanding the existing laws concerning the chase." The people were empowered to "assemble with javelins, halberds, pikes, arquebuses and clubs, to hunt and pursue the said were-wolf in all places where they could find it, and to take, burn, and kill it, without incurring any fine or other penalty." The hunt seems to have been successful, if we may judge from the fact that the same tribunal in the following year condemned to be burned a man named Giles Garnier, who ran on all fours in the forest and fields and devoured little children, "even on Friday." The poor lycanthrope, it appears, had as slight respect for ecclesiastical feasts as the French pig, which was not restrained by any feeling of piety from eating infants on a fast day. [ The History of Vampires, by Dudley Wright ] 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. 3 ratings in all 5 categories. so it's a rainbow.
Newtkiller	November 16, 2008 01:28
First comment: 28 October, 2008	127 comments written
Okay. I break the rainbow.
Toby Bartels	February 3, 2009 22:58
First comment: 11 August, 2007	83 comments written
Ha, ha! I know how you rated, Newtkiller! And if you remember how you rated, then you know how I rated, but nobody else does.

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