Dudley's dungeon -- Monday, 26 November, 2007

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matthew	November 26, 2007 01:20
First comment: 20 November, 2007	4 comments written
hmmmm....... I (s)earched count: 10 times but couldn't find the joke
Grognor	November 26, 2007 01:25
First comment: 4 April, 2007	1161 comments written
There are 2000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 things wrong here.
Grognor	November 26, 2007 01:26
First comment: 4 April, 2007	1161 comments written
Hey! You're fake! so am I!
Dol	November 26, 2007 01:47
First comment: 27 March, 2007	24 comments written
There's a lot of Double Trouble in these comments nowadays... Anyway, I believe the joke is that a purple wormA gargantuan version of the harmless rain-worm, the purple worm poses a huge threat to the ordinary adventurer. It is known to swallow whole and digest its victims within only a few minutes. These worms are always on guard, sensitive to the most minute vibrations in the earth, but may also be awakened by a remote shriek. 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. makes a neat pet. If it eats a chameleonName of a family (_Chameleonidae_) and race (_Chameleo_) of scaly lizards, especially the _Chameleo vulgaris_ species, with a short neck, claws, a grasping tail, a long, extendible tongue and mutually independent moving eyes. When it is scared or angry, it inflates itself and its transparent skin shows its blood: the skin first appears greenish, then gradually changes color until it is a spotted red. The final color depends on the background color as well, hence the (figurative) implication of unreliability. [Capitalized:] a constellation of the southern hemisphere (Chameleo). [ Van Dale's Groot Woordenboek der Nederlandse Taal ] 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., it polymorphs exactly once. A wimpy sea monster isn't that great a pet on your journey through Gehennom. Hopefully Dudley has a wand of'Saruman!' he cried, and his voice grew in power and authority. 'Behold, I am not Gandalf the Grey, whom you betrayed. I am Gandalf the White, who has returned from death. You have no colour now, and I cast you from the order and from the Council.' He raised his hand, and spoke slowly in a clear cold voice. 'Saruman, your staff is broken.' There was a crack, and the staff split asunder in Saruman's hand, and the head of it fell down at Gandalf's feet. 'Go!' said Gandalf. With a cry Saruman fell back and crawled away. [ The Two Towers, by J.R.R. Tolkien ] 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. polymorph or something handy.
Dol	November 26, 2007 02:53
First comment: 27 March, 2007	24 comments written
A fake! ThAt Dol is fake!
Dav	November 26, 2007 03:41
First comment: 26 June, 2004	147 comments written
Trolling on a nethack webcomic forum with a reader base in the double-digits. Classy.
videocrazy	November 26, 2007 05:01
First comment: 25 March, 2007	10 comments written
Well, I wouldn't say double digits, probally low triple digits.
Nameless	November 26, 2007 06:13
First comment: 29 December, 2004	281 comments written
If I could somehow be magically teleported face to face with whoever it was that started this AnhurAn Egyptian god of war and a great hunter, few gods can match his fury. Unlike many gods of war, he is a force for good. The wrath of Anhur is slow to come, but it is inescapable once earned. Anhur is a mighty figure with four arms. He is often seen with a powerful lance that requires both of his right arms to wield and which is tipped with a fragment of the sun. He is married to Mehut, a lion-headed goddess. 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.-cursed trolling, I believe I WOULD slap them in the face, yes. In other news, I find this comic unamusing.
Maybe Troll	November 26, 2007 07:40
First comment: 26 November, 2007	2 comments written
I started the "AnhurAn Egyptian god of war and a great hunter, few gods can match his fury. Unlike many gods of war, he is a force for good. The wrath of Anhur is slow to come, but it is inescapable once earned. Anhur is a mighty figure with four arms. He is often seen with a powerful lance that requires both of his right arms to wield and which is tipped with a fragment of the sun. He is married to Mehut, a lion-headed goddess. 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.-cursed trolling" to highlight something that I believe has been lost in 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. for inanity. Certain users, namely L and Grognor, had been lambasting otherwise-amusing comics for errata and minute inaccuracies, as if they 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. the Siskel and Ebert of nethack comic strips. With such a hostile atmosphere, does it really make people want to assist this comic with updating? Heck, would Dion want to write a comic knowing that such hatred is out there?
Maybe Troll	November 26, 2007 07:50
First comment: 26 November, 2007	2 comments written
And just so you know, I made the original fake-Grognor post on October 19, and not a single one since. I apologize for not having anticipated that a bunch of users would take the joke -way- too far, but that's the internet for you.
mAYBE tROLL	November 26, 2007 18:18
First comment: 26 November, 2007	1 comments written
I am the real Maybe TrollThe troll shambled closer. He was perhaps eight feet tall, perhaps more. His forward stoop, with arms dangling past thick claw-footed legs to the ground, made it hard to tell. The hairless green skin moved upon his body. His head was a gash of a mouth, a yard-long nose, and two eyes which drank the feeble torchlight and never gave back a gleam. [...] Like a huge green spider, the troll's severed hand ran on its fingers. Across the mounded floor, up onto a log with one taloned forefinger to hook it over the bark, down again it scrambled, until it found the cut wrist. And there it grew fast. The troll's smashed head seethed and knit together. He clambered back on his feet and grinned at them. The waning faggot cast red light over his fangs. [ Three Hearts and Three Lions, by Poul Anderson ] 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 I retract the above comments.
Categorically Not Grognor	November 26, 2007 22:47
First comment: 26 November, 2007	1 comments written
I agree with Maybe TrollThe troll shambled closer. He was perhaps eight feet tall, perhaps more. His forward stoop, with arms dangling past thick claw-footed legs to the ground, made it hard to tell. The hairless green skin moved upon his body. His head was a gash of a mouth, a yard-long nose, and two eyes which drank the feeble torchlight and never gave back a gleam. [...] Like a huge green spider, the troll's severed hand ran on its fingers. Across the mounded floor, up onto a log with one taloned forefinger to hook it over the bark, down again it scrambled, until it found the cut wrist. And there it grew fast. The troll's smashed head seethed and knit together. He clambered back on his feet and grinned at them. The waning faggot cast red light over his fangs. [ Three Hearts and Three Lions, by Poul Anderson ] 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.. Although I admit to having some fun with impersonating (come on, it's fun!), the point about n00bs like me being afraid to submit comics is spot on. It's hard enough getting all the dots and lines to align correctly.
Slowpoke	November 26, 2007 23:32
First comment: 27 February, 2007	239 comments written
I am just honored to have been impersonated at all, yesterday.
Armv	November 26, 2007 23:39
First comment: 5 October, 2006	28 comments written
And no one every mentions Armv. sigh
Antheridium	November 27, 2007 07:20
First comment: 17 May, 2007	442 comments written
I have to agree with the mimics. It's hard enough to think of jokes that work in nethack - if it weren't, I'd be writing comics. And then the response to some of them is enough to make one never want to submit any more. I prefer to encourage the writers to do better, rather than attacking them for their shortcomings. And as for Grognor, well, everybody who reads this comic will remember his name for a long time, at least. I also thought "plastic imitation of Grognor" was rather amusing.
cursed greased -1 thoroughly rusty Grognor (worn)	November 27, 2007 13:16
First comment: 27 November, 2007	1 comments written
Grognor was the one who resurrected it after the initial day's hilarity by complaining about the subject for the next few days. And, yes, "in a month none of you will remember this happened" was a bit of a challenge! But the month is up now, plus a few days for good measure, so let's finish up with this note! Now, let's make comic strips! PS Dion: I tried to do "cursed greased -1 thoroughly rusty thoroughly corroded partially eaten Grognor of cancellation (-1:-1) (weapon in hand)" as my username, but the script chokes over it and starts pasting it over my comment body for some reason. I did some fiddling and found that it happens if I go over 50 characters in the field.
Fathead	November 28, 2007 16:52
First comment: 1 April, 2006	1136 comments written
Yawn.
Quint Sakugarne	January 4, 2008 06:30
First comment: 1 January, 2008	233 comments written
Grognor of dilution, not cancellation.

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