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4th Annual NetHack Tournament
fatquack writes "The NetHack tournament season is upon us once again. /dev/null's Fourth Annual NetHack Tournament has just opened. As with past years, the Tournament is open
to anyone who'd like to play. We're also open to anyone who'd like to volunteer
to run a game server since, though we have a T1 hosting the main game server,
play can be slow across the transoceanic links. devnull.net is a loose association of networking geeks,
unincorporated and noncommercial. We just do this for giggles; we make no
money from this other than what folks feel like donating. The prize structure going in, as we're always open to suggestions to change this during the Tournament, is:
Prizes
The "standard" prizes will go to:
Highest Score
1st, 2nd and 3rd Highest Score in each class
The "additional" prizes will go to:
Most Ascensions
Lowest Scored Ascension
This year's Tournament will begin with servers in California and Oregon, but
with servers in Colorado, The Netherlands and Australia hopefully coming online
in the first few days."
I better go find a tinning kit, so I'll have something to eat while I live on the street. :(
I started playing Nethack at the tender age of 13, and not because it was "oldskool" as you say. I started because it was fun and easy to smuggle onto other people's computers since I didn't have one myself. :)
Contest is over. nethack.devnull.net slaughtered with a Vorpal Slashdotting +3
Remember, hacking into other people's computers is a crime, which you can go to jail for a really long time for.
You may think it is all fun and games "Hacking" the "Net", but when the cops bust down your door you may feel a little differently.
Doing a search on google for this tournament, it seems that people have been doing this for years! Just imagine all the lost hours of productivity when poor admins have to reinstall systems that were hacked. It's not their fault they ran Microsoft software.
I've had enough abrasive sigs. Kittens are cute and fuzzy.
One thing I've learned is that, while blind and hungry, it's not a good idea to wander around the dungeon feeling for food on a level where you've killed a cockatrice.
Playing Nethack always reminds me of the room in Infocom's Enchanter where one must retrieve a scroll from a maze of caverns. Every step is important. Y'know how food rots away if left too long? I was once starving and did a hk to move instead of the diagonal. In that one step the food disappeared. I starved to death.
Can someone please tell me honestly why I should start getting into Nethack? I mean I've clicked on the icon a few times ...
LOL!
It would be quite amusing for someone to make a 3d version of nethack, yet have it use 3d text instead of actual character graphics. Can you imagine, in the flickering light of a dungeon, the sight of a huge W jumping out from behind the shadows?
http://mangband.org/ Isn't that a hentai porn site?
Whoa, you're crazy? How do you have time for your wife?
I think (nay, know) that people loved nethack before "open source" was cool. Then again, I hate first person shooters, so I guess I'm in the minority here. Also, I don't have a penis; guess I must be a goddess to you and your "too studly to play nethack" secondary brain. (Eris, if I had my choice.)
You shouldn't get into Nethack. The longer you are able to think of it as a seemingly lame game the longer you will maintain your job and relationships. You won't like it, honestly. There are too many levels to bother with.
(started playing (Hack for Amiga) 1987; first ascended (Nethack 3 on a VAX) in 1992)
Got a few of my mates into it, but we quit after a while- It was just really frustrating- you would just die at some random level after you came across some 'monster' that you simply couldn't kill.
Monster?! There are MONSTERS in this game?! What am I doing chasing around all these #'s and b's then?!
Kintanon
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I said it elsewhere and I will say it again: Where are the prizes for us clueless? Where is the "Dumbest Death" prize? "Fastest Death"? "Best Death Playing as if it was Quake"? "Most Stupid Level 1 Death"? "Best Level 1 Death While in Level 10 or More" (like starving for lack of attention deep into the mines)?
2,956,782 FPS in nethack. NVidia can't touch that.
... Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the Governed...
Done. It now has a desktop icon and hotkey shortcut too. And as soon as a PalmOS port is done, it'll take its place there beside the others as well.
Careful, you're about to evoke a very specific, very ill-remembered Roberta Williams quote...