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Interesting. It looks like a ripoff^Wcopy of I Wanna Be The Guy (which is free and completely awesome, btw), but with slower gameplay and looser controls.

Nethack

Second dungeon level. I see a fountain. Decide to drink from it to see if I could get a wish. Become surrounded by snakes.

Decided what my next step would be.

I had started with the Sleep spell, so I could make all the snakes fell asleep and then kill them with the help of my pet

I also had a scroll of Scare Monster so I could make them go away and climb to the previous level to recover health (I was low on health).

Or I could engrave the E-word and forced the snakes to not attack me for a few turns and wait to on that spot to heal back my health and in the meanwhile let my pet take care of them. The problem is that I only had a Magic Marker to engrave, and I didn't want to waste charges

I decided to play it safe and use the scroll of Scare Monster to run away because I wasn't sure I could cast Sleep on all the snakes before they killed me.

That being said, I heard that the game gets a little repetive the further you go down the dungeon.

Although one of the best games I played last year was I Wanna Be The Guy, which is pretty much linear (you can decide the order you take the paths, but you have to take them all), but it nailed that "One more try" feeling (especially when the try usually takes 1 or 2 seconds...).

Right now I've been playing a game that uses the same engine called I Wanna Be The Fangame except that music doesn't work on WINE, so it's not as fun to play as the original.

The game is actually called...get ready for it...I Wanna Be The Guy: The Movie: The Game. It was designed to be insanely hard and frustrating.

http://kayin.pyoko.org/iwbtg/index.php

This story reminds me of a hilariously hard little gem of a game: I Wanna Be The Guy. It's the kind of game that makes me laugh out loud when I realize yet ANOTHER way I can die on a particular level. Try it out a bit, and have a good laugh if you haven't already.

is easily "I Wanna Be the Guy". Check it out, it is crazy http://kayin.pyoko.org/iwbtg/

I'm about 50% through "I Wanna Be The Guy" and can attest to it's utterly unforgiving, cute, hilarious, nostalgic, free, old-school platformer game play.

http://firsthour.net/guest/first-hour-review/i-wanna-be-the-guy
http://kayin.pyoko.org/iwbtg/

I will give Spelunky World a try when I'm finished with IWBTG.

http://kayin.pyoko.org/iwbtg/

Just a word of warning: very difficult. Well, not much more so than the old platformers - memorization is key..... pretty sure I found that on Slashdot a while back.

One of the hardest games you'll ever play: I Wanna Be The Guy.

A real throw-back to when games were hair-pullingly difficult, its a simple platformer filled with tons of references to old NES and arcade classics, like Mike Tyson's Punch-Out and Ghouls and Ghosts. Its surprisingly addictive, too.

This guy is bound to be disappointed...

No but very very soon.

Here it is. The Olsen Twins legal age countdown-o-meter.

see here. Or try the original.

Perhaps Slashdot are using stylesheets to make Slashdot work differently on Opera! It makes us look like Opera users' comments are being more highly moderated on average, when in fact Rob has found a clever method of making all of my posts look like fives!

Update by JD: Nope, I forced myself to check it in IE (shudder) and Lynx (just to be sure), and it turns out that us Opera users really ARE that much cleverer than the masses of Microsoft using drones. ;)

Sweet! I can use it to translate my anime (no self-respecting nerd would even consider watching the dub!) and Japanese pop music!

Assuming it translates smarter than Babelfish and some of the crazy entries at Animelyrics, this would be an excellent device indeedy. Do you suppose it would outputs only in Romajii, though? What about katakana, hiragana and kanji? Nevermind, authenticity isn't anywhere near as important as Pocky, DiGi Charat and Hapatai.

Yatta, yatta...

Sweet! I can use it to translate my anime (no self-respecting nerd would even consider watching the dub!) and Japanese pop music!

Assuming it translates smarter than Babelfish and some of the crazy entries at Animelyrics, this would be an excellent device indeedy. Do you suppose it would outputs only in Romajii, though? What about katakana, hiragana and kanji? Nevermind, authenticity isn't anywhere near as important as Pocky, DiGi Charat and Hapatai.

Yatta, yatta...

Banning webservers, I could understand, but what happens if the user wants to do some one-on-one online gaming? I can imagine that the inability to run a game server for an hour would cause major problems with my regular Quake 2 matches with mah buddy, DigiGnome...

Nielsen writes: Of the homepages in our sample, 60% used the traditional standard for link colors: blue.

Since half of the Internet at any one time are newbies - who probably don't know HOW to change the traditional link colour - does this mean that only 10% of homepages still use blue? ;)

I'm proud to say that I'm one of that sixty (or was it ten?) percent... check out my homepage, http://www.jonnydigital.com to see why I stick to good old blue unvisited links. (Site also here if the first page won't work.)

Of course, my visited links aren't purple... they're blue, too - but a darker blue. Purple wouldn't fit into my colour scheme...

It's just like I always say - "If links are blue, users know what to do!" ;)