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Nethack 3.4.0
Dark_Nova writes "Nethack 3.4.0 - the latest version of the greatest game ever created - has just been released. See the release notes for details about what's new, or go here to download it."
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Now I get to loose productive time as an adult. At least I'll get paid this time.
Hopefully, this edition will have the Amulet of Yendor in it.
"It's the little touches that make a future solid enough to be destroyed" --William S. Bourroughs
Just divide the number of people who download the latest version of this game by the number of valid IP's on the internet and you can figure out exactly what percentage of people on the planet earth won't be contributing to the world's "population" problem ;-)
"It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once." -David Hume
i'm being chased by the @ and the %. Well, at least its not the / and the .
Where can I get a reg code for this? Anybody got a good warez site for this one?
Oh wait, wrong game.
Kop throws a pie. Orc is hit by a cream pie. Orc wipes face. Orc throws dagger. Kop is destroyed!
Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more, Or close the wall up with our American dead!
And at a size of 1.1 MB?!?!?! How am I supposed to download that on my dialup connection?
Athletic Scholarships to universities make as much sense as academic scholarships to sports teams.
Well, for one, the graphics of netHack have always been *so* much more advanced than Return to Castle Wolfenstein. I mean, just take one glance at the detail of a nethack shot and you'll fall in love. Avoid those things like Falcon's Eye, or X11 enhanced interfaces, the original ASCII is truly beautiful..
Plus, there are cute animals in nethack, can't beat that.
XML is like violence. If it doesn't solve the problem, use more.
What, graphics with netHack? Blashpemer! We get our ASCII and we like it that way. May an @ devour you for even suggesting anything but ASCII :)
XML is like violence. If it doesn't solve the problem, use more.
Here's a picture of the main character
@
And his dog looks like this
d
The orcs are quite good
o
Does that help?
It teaches you vi!
"See, boss, I'm learning editor commands."
> Here's a picture of the main character @ And his dog looks like this d The orcs are quite good o
I've only ever seen the beginner's version, where the dungeon is a single 3x3 level and the only two characters are X and O.
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
That is why I started to play nethack.
I wanted to learn the vi movement keys.
Then my nethack skills outpaced my vi skills,
and I keep getting frustrated by trying to move
diaganally in vi.
My favorite dirty NetHack message:
"The nymph is covered with your goo!"
To get this you have to polymorph yourself in to an ochre jelly and attack a nymph.
- Have a picture
That reminds me of my favorite way to get rid of trolls as a monk. For those who don't know, trolls come back from the dead, over and over and over. Most of the time you keep them from reviving by eating their corpses. But monks aren't supposed to eat meat. The solution is to chuck them into a pool of water. When they revive they drown. The only problem is that pools of water aren't that common and this doesn't work on water trolls. I haven't tried it on Slashdot trolls, but I imagine it should work.
My only political goal is to see to it that no political party achieves its goals.