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  1. Re:Primitive visuals the main selling point by Nesman64 · · Score: 1 · on A History of Rogue

    This Nethack comic on User Friendly is the first one I thought of.

    While we're on the topic of Nethack comics, Dudley's Dungeon ran for about 5 years.

  2. Re:Interesting. by NockPoint · · Score: 1 · on Linux Patent Infringement Lawsuit Filed Against Red Hat/Novell

    Watch out for the Gnome with the Wand of Death.

    http://www.nicolaas.net/dudley/index.php?f=20051025

  3. cultural background by YGingras · · Score: 1 · on Will Solve Captcha for Money?
    How about captchas that require cultural background knowledge to solve?

    Dudley's Dungeon, a Nethack comic strip, does that. Really simple questions like "Which character represents a wand?" are both trivial for nethackers and are almost unsolvable enigma for spammers.

    This approach is fine for a website oriented around a common, niche interest but I don't think a general public website should go for something like that. Salting the captchas is easier to implement and it will defeat almost all attempts to defeat them. Something like: enter the number of kids in that picture, plus the number written in this captcha plus five. Any website doing that will be a pain to use though. I think the comment should be bayes checked than a captcha, possibly salted should be sent only when it looks like spam.
  4. Shameless Plug... it's not mine :'( by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny · on Promoting Webcomics?

    Dudley's Dungeon, a NetHack webcomic, now bound to get millions of visitors!!!

  5. Dudley's Dungeon by On+Lawn · · Score: 1 · on Cell Phone Customer Service Ranked Next to Last

    I liked Dudley's take on this...

  6. Re:Marvin by Spad · · Score: 3, Informative · on New Cast Information For 'Hitchhiker's' Movie

    I always liked the Marvin from the Illustrated HHGTTG.

    Actually, I liked the Zaphod & the Trillian too.

  7. Re:Nethack Question by Des+Herriott · · Score: 4, Interesting · on Nethack 3.4.1 Released
    Not sure why that got modded as Funny, I'm guessing it was a serious question... not sure if there are any recordings, but there are a few sites where you can connect and watch games in progress (or just connect and play a game yourself).

    Try this index.