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Beating Diablo II, Irene The Infirm's Way?
Rimbo writes "I've found a new hero, over at The Lurker Lounge's Diablo II forums, where intrepid adventurer MongoJerry set up an in-game Sorceress according to the following rules: 'No skill or stat points may ever be assigned... She plays fully naked, including no charms or jewelry... She must get all waypoints and fulfill all quests in game order... If she actually gets that far, any mercenary she gets must play naked as well... She plays hardcore.' So, no weapons, no armor, no magic items, no throwing potions. How long will she last playing Diablo II? Astonishingly long! Read on for the surprising Irene the Infirm: Tales of a Sickly Punching Sorceress."
I think the following sums up the reasoning behind this latest challenge:
She plays fully naked
Reminds me of how I went thru the entire Quake II
with only a blaster. No quads either. It's
always nice to hear about someone going it the
hard way.
If you want REAL tales of masochism, check out the nethack newsgroups, and read the posts of people who ascended nudist atheist vegetarian illiterate tourists.
Trees can't go dancing
So do them a big favor
Pretend dancing stinks!
Although I don't have the skill or patience for the same task I understand the goal. I've spent many a round of Day of Defeat with nothing but my shovel at hand to dispatch the enemy, or just the pistol. There's something special about foregoing all the typical "power up" type weapons and items and just breaking it down with the bare essentials.
Simoniker and I made a pact with the devil. Today, this gets posted to Slashdot. Tomorrow, the main page. Next week, "Irene the Infirm" becomes a TV Movie.
Oh, you could turn off your TV.
But then there comes the McDonald's tie-in. "Irene" bumper stickers. The T-Shirt.
And then on MTV awards night... seen Britney's new costume? That's right. Irene.
Irene on Coca-cola cans. Irene on billboards. The Irene cartoon show. Irene the breakfast cereal. Irene spam.
If you are mad now, just wait until three months from now when President Bush declares war on China because of the manufacturing of Irene knock-off Barbies. They'll call Irene "the fictional video game character that launched a thousand cruise missiles." Yeah, not quite as nice as Helen of Troy, but Satan wanted the rest of a bottle of Dahlwhinnie I had in my liquor cabinet for that, and though we'd given up our souls we weren't about to give a drop to that scumbag shit.
So, uhm, get used to Irene, man...
You could do this in Slashdot, try defending SCO
While reading the thread (its up to 5 pages, most likely going to hit 6 soon thank to this report) keep in mind that this has been going on for nearly a month now. I don't think its even mathamatically possible to get this far after 48 hours of true NON-STOP playing.
For those who don't/never play/ed Diablo 2, when you're unarmed and using your fists your damage is 1-2 ASSUMING you even connect. This goes for any class, no matter how much strength you have as well. All monsters auto-heal as well, except for certain bosses, so I'm guessing it takes about 3-5+ minutes to kill one regular monster and at least 2 potions.
Wanting to do this is god's way of telling you to move on to a new game.