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Nethack 3.4.0

Posted by michael on from the yummy-mango dept.

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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  1. Wow, I remember way back when by Cade144 · · Score: 5, Funny
    Wow, I remember way back to my youth, I'd loose all sorts of productive time in college.

    Now I get to loose productive time as an adult. At least I'll get paid this time.

  2. Yay, new way to waste time at work by Dragon218 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hopefully, this edition will have the Amulet of Yendor in it.

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    "It's the little touches that make a future solid enough to be destroyed" --William S. Bourroughs
    1. Re:Yay, new way to waste time at work by teamhasnoi · · Score: 4, Funny
      The best thing is you can tell your boss your're doing a defrag.

      "The bugs on the floor speed up"

      "See, it's working!"

  3. The nerd litmus test. by fluxrad · · Score: 5, Funny

    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 ;-)

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    "It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once." -David Hume
    1. Re:The nerd litmus test. by squaretorus · · Score: 4, Funny

      Or if you say:
      You hear a monster behind the boulder

      and they reply
      Perhaps that's why you cannot move it - HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH BWAAA HAHAHAHAHAHA BWA BWA BWAAAAA HAAAA HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA A - WATCH OUTT You might DISPLACE MY CAT BWAAA AHAAAA HAAAA HAAAAAA

      Before collapsing helplessly into tolk of Shrubberies and 'very naughty boy's

  4. oh shit by isli · · Score: 4, Funny

    i'm being chased by the @ and the %. Well, at least its not the / and the .

  5. God by Wind_Walker · · Score: 5, Funny
    When are the people over at Nethack going to realize that this feature bloat is completely destroying the product? Have you looked at the latest release.txt file? A new Win32 GUI, control-P for a full screen message...

    And at a size of 1.1 MB?!?!?! How am I supposed to download that on my dialup connection?

  6. Re:See slashem for example!!! by gowen · · Score: 4, Funny
    It is still turn-based... so what?
    Are you kidding, thats kind of terrible design decision that made Chess such a short lived fad.
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  7. Re:What is NetHack? by Kanon · · Score: 5, Funny

    Here's a picture of the main character

    @

    And his dog looks like this

    d

    The orcs are quite good

    o

    Does that help?

  8. Re:What is NetHack? by Black+Parrot · · Score: 4, Funny


    > 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.

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    Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
  9. Re:My favourite NetHack message by grytpype · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

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    - Have a picture