Dudley's dungeon
Thursday, 1 May, 2008 |
by The Lurker |
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"Greetings, Altair the Assassin! Welcome to JNethack!"
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@ "Complete a mission for me and I'll help defeat the guards."
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@ "Complete this mission for me and I'll give you what you ask."
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Do you really want
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An invisible choir
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@ "Welcome back, Miles." @ "Noooooo!"
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Average rating: Fair Number of ratings: 18
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May 1, 2008 00:53
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First comment: 26 July, 2004 |
155 comments written |
..what? |
Wellan |
May 1, 2008 02:16
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First comment: 27 November, 2007 |
247 comments written |
Huh? |
Wonderer |
May 1, 2008 02:40
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First comment: 22 March, 2007 |
106 comments written |
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassin's_Creed
...I think. Never played it. All I know is that its backstory is something utterly dreadful.
Oh, what' the heck. I'll just go "Huh?" too. |
Wellan |
May 1, 2008 03:05
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First comment: 27 November, 2007 |
247 comments written |
I think I'm going to have to go with poor for complete obscurity. |
Grey Knight |
May 1, 2008 11:43
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First comment: 20 October, 2005 |
116 comments written |
Needs more cowbell (and explication). |
Feory |
May 1, 2008 12:28
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First comment: 15 August, 2006 |
63 comments written |
It's just an assassin's creed-y thing, and doesn't actually have a punchline.
'References' do not a good comic make. Or something like that. |
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May 1, 2008 14:21
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First comment: 1 April, 2004 |
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I believe it is meant to poke fun at the boring and repetitive quests in Assassin's Creed, where the hero's name is Altair, and the initial setting is the Holy Land (hence the "Do you really want to leave Jerusalem?" thing). The "Welcome back, Miles" thing indicates that he has Not, in fact, successfully the game of Assassin's Creed, but has instead returned to the modern world in Assassin's Creed, in which Altair's name is really Desmond Miles, and weird people in lab coats want to extract his memories. |
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May 1, 2008 15:35
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First comment: 26 July, 2004 |
155 comments written |
Glad I'm not alone. Never played it. Sounds kind of dull from what I've heard. |
Vin |
May 1, 2008 15:57
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First comment: 7 January, 2008 |
7 comments written |
It isn't actually all that bad. The miniquests are repetitive, but stealth-killing some random prick who annoys you is always good, clean fun. Unless you get caught. Then it gets messy. Essentially, it makes a better free-roaming-sociopath simulator than mission-based game, but hey... |
Grey Knight |
May 1, 2008 16:13
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First comment: 20 October, 2005 |
116 comments written |
References can help with a comic, but in general you need to (a) either use a subject well-known to the readers (hard to judge) or else specify it ("Greetings, Altair the Assassin! Welcome to Nethack's Creed!" might've done it).
Also, you still need some funny for when someone inevitably doesn't get it. |
Slowpoke |
May 1, 2008 16:53
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First comment: 27 February, 2007 |
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I'll give it Fair because it seems well-crafted, but like everyone else I had to go look up the reference. |
Antheridium |
May 2, 2008 02:36
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First comment: 17 May, 2007 |
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I figured that was Assassin's Creed, but, knowing nothing about the game, I had no idea what the "welcome back miles" was about. Indeed, at first I thought it was some kind of Star Trek reference.
Not a bad joke once it's explained. But it seems like complete nonsense at first. |
Lurker Above |
May 2, 2008 16:08
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First comment: 2 May, 2008 |
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Star Trek reference? You mean Miles O'Brien?
Could also be Miles Bennett Dyson from T2.
BTW, Star Trek also had an episode with a Dyson , but it was named after physicist Freeman Dyson. Not to be confused with Gordon Freeman, another physicist who killed lots of aliens with his crowbar. Or maybe it was Gordon Gekko. Nethack has Geckos too... DO YOU SEE THE OBVIOUS PATTERN? |
Antheridium |
May 5, 2008 19:56
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First comment: 17 May, 2007 |
442 comments written |
Yes... it is THE most indirect joke in comic history. I am ashamed. -. |
Hammy |
August 30, 2008 16:33
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First comment: 30 August, 2008 |
1 comments written |
What, you think that if we could afford an Xbox 360 and Assassin's Creed to play for our very own as much as we want we'd be hanging around here long enough to read that joke about it? :p |
MadDawg2552 |
October 9, 2008 20:48
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First comment: 6 October, 2008 |
69 comments written |
Heh, Hammy. I thought you going to say, "...if we could afford an Xbox 360 and Assasin's Creed... do you think we'd be playing NetHack?" |
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