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Annual Nethack Tournament

Posted by Cliff on from the tis-the-season-for-a-dungeon-crawl dept.

jvarsoke notes: "After the last little goblins leave your porch tonight, sit on down at your old-school terminal and light up your favorite dungeon crawl. The annual /dev/null/ Nethack Tournament starts tonight. Or, if Nethack is too easy (or Marvin too intimidating) for you, slide over to the public Slash'EM server."

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  1. SlashdotHack? by Carnildo · · Score: 2, Funny

    What's this, the annual Slashdotting of DevNull?

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    "They redundantly repeated themselves over and over again incessantly without end ad infinitum" -- ibid.
  2. If it's good enough.... by Naffer · · Score: 4, Funny

    Nethack is one of my all-time favorite games, one I've been playing since 1200 baud was smokin' fast. -- Actor Wil Wheaton

    If it's good enough for will wheaton, then it's good enough for me. I'll have to give it a try. Anyone else tried it out?

    1. Re:If it's good enough.... by Haeleth · · Score: 2, Funny

      Nethack holds a record where I'm concerned: it's the game I've failed to get into the most frequently.

      It promises depth. It promises adventure. It promises to be better than sliced bread. From the descriptions, it's exactly the game I've been looking for all my life. Yet in actual practice, I still find staring at a grid of ASCII characters, trying to learn an interface more cryptic than Emacs, and dying permanently every five minutes to be somehow just not fun.

      Hmm... it's about the time of year when I try it again. They say there are graphical front-ends which answer two of my three objections... maybe if I try one of those...

  3. I would.... by GigsVT · · Score: 5, Funny

    I was planning on playing, but I ate some meat earlier and I feel deathly sick.

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    I've had enough abrasive sigs. Kittens are cute and fuzzy.
  4. Hey boys... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

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  5. Re:Ughh.... by DrEldarion · · Score: 2, Funny

    I think it's because those people have played the game since it came out due to the fact that it's the only game that reliably runs on Linux (ducks).