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Nethack 3.4.1 Released
fatquack writes "Almost a day ago the DevTeam wrote: The NetHack DevTeam is pleased to announce the release of NetHack 3.4.1. NetHack 3.4 is an enhancement to the dungeon exploration game NetHack. It is a distant descendent of Rogue and Hack, and a direct descendent of NetHack 3.3. Get your copy at nethack.org now! (and it fixes the boulder/landmine bug)."
We all know you can make it through this. $lashdot and Linux is a disease. Stop becoming the victim.
Troll 74 of 208 from the annals of the Troll Library .
bah, hope I get it out real fast :)
Not only are you a cheese eating surrender monkey, but... ...YOU'RE ALSO A JERK!
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Improving Nethack's graphics just emphasises how poor the gameplay actually is, because you start comparing it with half decent games (like Baldur's Gate). The text-based versions have a certain retro charm, but the game is incredibly simplistic (more-or-less a dumbed-down version of Diablo). Detailed, more realistic graphics (even the tile-based graphics of Falcon's Eye) just raise expectations that the game itself will be complex or 'realistic' (in whetever sense of that word is appropriate to a fantasy game).
Nethack is for the old-skool, people who don't care about modern gameplay or modern graphics. A graphical update won't make it into a worthwhile modern game.
Hi, my name is what? My name is who? My name is Gaping Anus
Hi, my name is huh? My name is what? My name is the fudgepacker Hi, my name is what? My name is who? (Excuse me) My name is the nutlicker
Hi, my name is what? (Can I have the attention of your ass?) My name is who? My name is the buttsniffer
Hi, kids do you like Anus?
I let Linus Torvalds fill up my butt for a chance to be famous (Uh huh) Wanna copy me and do exactly like I did? (Yeah)
Try Taco-Snotting and get your butt pumped out like I did?
My brains dead weight
I'm tryin to get my head straight
But I can't figure out
Which Slashdot editor I wanna impregnate
Timothy said, "CmdrTaco you a cutie" (Uh huh)
"I'll give you a deal, let me up in that booty" (OK!)
Well since age 12 I felt like I'm someone else
Cause I choked my original self Taco-Snotting him (Yup)
Got pissed off and ripped CowboyNeal's tits off
He don't know how to do Chris D
I'd suck his dick off
Hi, my anus who?
My anus what?
My anus it gets tapped dawg
Hi, my anus (Excuse me)
My anus
My anus every now and then gets plugged up
Hi, my anus (Can I have the attention of your ass?)
My anus
My anus is occasionally reamed out
Hi, my anus who?
My anus what?
My anus really needs to be filled up
My boss tried to fire me yesterday
I told him to take his pants off, hooked him up, he let me slide
I pinched his ass
He winked at me
He chased me around the desk
I told him "Come and get me!"
Walked in the strip club
Had my jacket zipped up
Flashed the bartender
And I tried to feel his dick up
Homosexuals Circle-Jerking pedestrians
Near a gay bar while they're screamin
Lets just be friends!
99% of my life I was lied to
I just found out my Mom screws more guys than I do (Damn)
I told her I'd grow up to be a famous Taco-Snotter
She met Michael, I couldn't believe it when he slapped her
You know you blew up when the women rush the stands
And try to touch your hands
But I need me a man
This guy at Gay Al's strip club asked for my autograph (Dude can I get your
autograph?)
So I signed it "Dear Anal Cocks, thanks for the support"
"Nice ass!"
Hi, my name is huh?
My name is who? (Excuse me)
My name is (They call me the pore plugger)
Hi, my name is what?
My name is who?
My name is the inch itcher (Excuse me)
One of Slashdot's homosexuals
They call me the butt itcher
Hi, my name is what?
My name is who?
My name is (I've been called Hemos' butt boy)
Stop the tape this gaylord needs to be locked away (Get him)
Cliff, don't just stand there operate
Or feel up my balls and buttcheeks
Anal lube got my ass greasy for weeks
Stick your manhood between my cheeks (Yup)
Am I giving or taking it
I can barely decide
I just drank a gallon of semen (Imperial or U.S.?)
Dare me to drive? (Go ahead)
All my life I was very deprived
CowboyNeal's butt is too sexy to hide
Take your pants off Neal I don't mind
Clothes rip like the Incredible Hulk
I spit cum when I talk
I do any guy that walks
When I was little I used to get so hungry I would throw fits
Sometimes I sit and wish <i>Hemos had a set of tits (He does)
CowboyNeal: "Get behind me CmdrTaco and grab me by my hips"
If I do that then I can't kiss you on your lips
By the way if you see my Dad
Ask him if he seen my spread in Gay House Porno Mag
Hi, my anus who?
My anus what?
My anus gets tapped up
Hi, my anus who?
My anus what?
My anus it's always getting plugged up
Hi, my anus who?
My anus what?
My anus occasionally reamed out
My anus it needs to be filled up
Your anus
Your anus
Your anus is always getting plugged
Your anus
Your anus
Your anus is always getting stuffed
Your anus
Your anus
You little bitch I'll slap your face off
That's what happens when you go up against the Metrollica trick
You little bitch (Laughs)
Gaping Anus!
We have an obligation to foster mutual understanding. We have an obligation to oppose evil wherever it rears its ethically bankrupt, macabre head. And we have an obligation to nourish children with good morals and self-esteem. Am I angry? You bet. I sincerely dislike Anus Fucking Rimjob Artist. Likes or dislikes, however, are irrelevant to observed facts, such as that we must reach out to people with the message that Anus Fucking Rimjob Artist's offhand remarks are so uncivilized that they are easily taken up and assimilated by lecherous simpletons, whose intellectual level corresponds to the material offered. We must alert people of that. We must educate them. We must inspire them. And we must encourage them to renew those institutions of civil society -- like families, schools, churches, and civic groups -- that deal stiffly with the most obtrusive recidivists you'll ever see who challenge all I stand for.
As a dynamic, historical current, mercantalism has taken many different forms and has evolved dramatically in a variety of ways, but I won't linger on that. You've never heard Anus Fucking Rimjob Artist announce that he plans to encourage and exacerbate passivity in some people who might otherwise be active and responsible citizens? Well, Anus Fucking Rimjob Artist has repeatedly enunciated such a plan, but in his typically convoluted way. If he got his way, he'd be able to invade every private corner and force every thought into a deceitful mold. Brrrr! It sends chills down my spine just thinking about that.
Now, more than ever, we must see through the haze of antiheroism. I truly have a hard time trying to reason with people who remain calm when they see Anus Fucking Rimjob Artist alter laws, language, and customs in the service of regulating social relations. A brief study of sociology will show one inescapable fact: He insists that the ideas of "freedom" and "vigilantism" are Siamese twins. This fraud, this lie, is just one among the thousands he perpetrates. I had a conversation recently with some crude, morally questionable bribe-seekers who were trying to advocate fatalistic acceptance of a naive new world order. That conversation convinced me that today, we might have let Anus Fucking Rimjob Artist dig a grave in which to bury liberty and freedom. Tomorrow, we won't. Instead, we will make Anus Fucking Rimjob Artist answer for his wrongdoings.
When I was little, my father would sometimes pick me up, put me on his knee, and say "I hope that Anus Fucking Rimjob Artist regrets what he has done." Anus Fucking Rimjob Artist, as usual, you prove yourself to be headstrong. To be honest, we must view the realms of fetishism and neocolonialism not as two opposing poles, but as two continua. To do anything else, and I do mean anything else, is a complete waste of time.
It is easy for the public at large to dismiss humorless big-mouths as inane vagrants. While I know very little about superficial loudmouths, I do know that Anus Fucking Rimjob Artist's methods are much subtler now than ever before. Anus Fucking Rimjob Artist is more adept at hidden mind control and his techniques of social brainwash are much more appealingly streamlined and homogenized. Is this anything other than hypersensitive ruffianism? The answer is obvious if you happen to notice that I shall not argue that his newsgroup postings are an authentic map of his plan to quote me out of context. Read them and see for yourself.
There's a little-known truth that isn't readily acknowledged by destructive bloodsuckers: Talking about Anus Fucking Rimjob Artist in the highly charged vortex of separatism is always burdened with agitation and diversion. Sad, but true. And it'll only get worse if Anus Fucking Rimjob Artist finds a way to supply the chains that bind the individual to notions of self-loathing and unworthiness. His besotted utterances impose a narrow theological agenda on secular society. News of this deviousness must spread like wildfire if we are ever to take up the all-encompassing challenge of freedom, justice, equality, and the pursuit of life with full dignity. Odious dopeheads can't even agree among themselves as to how politically incorrect Anus Fucking Rimjob Artist is, by which I mean that the outcome of the struggle will ultimately be decided based on the number and influence of people fully informed about Anus Fucking Rimjob Artist's canards, committed to Anus Fucking Rimjob Artist's defeat, and organized under sound leadership. I put that observation into this letter just to let you see that when Anus Fucking Rimjob Artist says that without his superior guidance, we will go nowhere, in his mind, that's supposed to end the argument. It's like he believes he has said something very profound. Maybe he just can't handle harsh reality. People have pointed out to me that sniffish antagonism is not new, but I still can't help but think that it's time for Anus Fucking Rimjob Artist to grow up. So what's the connection between that and Anus Fucking Rimjob Artist's proposed social programs? The connection is that most of you reading this letter have your hearts in the right place. Now follow your hearts with actions.
The next time someone says that Anus Fucking Rimjob Artist's ideas prevent smallpox, look that person right in the eye and reply, "Anus Fucking Rimjob Artist represents the most recent incarnation of the unique 20th-century phenomenon known as "unprincipled anti-intellectualism"." He parrots whatever ideas are fashionable at the moment. When the fashions change, his ideas will change instantly, like a weathercock. In point of fact, we must declare a truce with him and commence a dialogue. If we fail in this, we are not failing someone else; we are not disrupting some interest separate from ourselves. Rather, it is we who suffer when we neglect to observe that Anus Fucking Rimjob Artist should think about how his screeds lead snotty radicals to leave behind a legacy of perpetual indebtedness in developing countries. If Anus Fucking Rimjob Artist doesn't want to think that hard, perhaps he should just keep quiet. I have one itsy-bitsy problem with his outbursts. Videlicet, they create anomie. And that's saying nothing about how we must illustrate the virtues that he lacks -- courage, truthfulness, courtesy, honesty, diligence, chivalry, loyalty, and industry. Our children depend on that.
My prediction that Anus Fucking Rimjob Artist would delude and often rob those rendered vulnerable and susceptible to his snares because of poverty, illness, or ignorance came true so quickly, so brutally, so horribly, that even I was stunned by the magnitude and viciousness of it all. If the past is any indication of the future, he will once again attempt to manipulate everything and everybody. If one could get a Ph.D. in Emotionalism, he would be the first in line to have one. For heaven's sake, Anus Fucking Rimjob Artist's method (or school, or ideology -- it is hard to know exactly what to call it) goes by the name of "Anus Fucking Rimjob Artist-ism". It is a despicable and avowedly high-handed philosophy that aims to redefine humanity as alienated machines/beasts and then convince everyone that they were never human to begin with.
Look at what's happened since he first ordered his cronies to distort the facts: Views once considered imprudent are now considered ordinary. Views once considered blockish are now considered perfectly normal. And the most capricious of Anus Fucking Rimjob Artist's views are now seen as gospel by legions of what I call immature self-promoters. His whinges are a masterpiece of repugnant, sick hooliganism. In fact, I have said that to Anus Fucking Rimjob Artist on many occasions, and I will keep on saying it until he stops trying to detach individuals from traditional sources of strength and identity -- family, class, private associations. I find much to disagree with in his modes of thought. Some people might object to that claim, and if they do, my response is: If I hear his spokesmen say, "We're supposed to shut up and smile when Anus Fucking Rimjob Artist says nefarious things" one more time, I'm undoubtedly going to throw up.
Why is he really so insensitive? Is it because his rodomontades are defeatism redux? Or because most of us are now painfully aware of his jejune, wild vituperations? Well, I'm sure Anus Fucking Rimjob Artist would rather incite pogroms, purges, and other mayhem than answer that particular question. Let's consider for a moment, though, that maybe his demands are tinctured with fogyism. Then doesn't it follow that it is naive to think that he wouldn't lay waste to the environment if he got the chance? I have the following to say to the assertion that university professors must conform their theses and conclusions to his feral prejudices if they want to publish papers and advance their careers: Baloney! At one point, I actually believed that he would stop being so treacherous. Silly me. After having read this, you may think that to the extent that my own age and health will permit, I, hardheaded cynic that I am, will make a genuine contribution to human society. Nevertheless, you should always remember that many lives have been lost to nativism.