Second dungeon level. I see a fountain. Decide to drink from it to see if I could get a wish. Become surrounded by snakes.
Decided what my next step would be.
I had started with the Sleep spell, so I could make all the snakes fell asleep and then kill them with the help of my pet
I also had a scroll of Scare Monster so I could make them go away and climb to the previous level to recover health (I was low on health).
Or I could engrave the E-word and forced the snakes to not attack me for a few turns and wait to on that spot to heal back my health and in the meanwhile let my pet take care of them. The problem is that I only had a Magic Marker to engrave, and I didn't want to waste charges
I decided to play it safe and use the scroll of Scare Monster to run away because I wasn't sure I could cast Sleep on all the snakes before they killed me.
That being said, I heard that the game gets a little repetive the further you go down the dungeon.
Although one of the best games I played last year was I Wanna Be The Guy, which is pretty much linear (you can decide the order you take the paths, but you have to take them all), but it nailed that "One more try" feeling (especially when the try usually takes 1 or 2 seconds...).
Right now I've been playing a game that uses the same engine called I Wanna Be The Fangame except that music doesn't work on WINE, so it's not as fun to play as the original.
As a example, a "normal" piece of software will be available on :
Win XP
Vista
Win 7
Win2k
Notice for example that you didn't say Linux or OSX.
If this goes through, I think that the software boxes would start to say "This software was tested on this system, with this caracteristics and there may be different behaviour (that we can't be hold responsible for) on different configurations."
For example, just about every book that's used in education. Especially ones written by professors. They don't "work."
I know this is probably off-topic, but I must ask, as a young student, why do say that?
Is it because they are usually expensive and required to a course (that's taught by the professor who wrote it)? Because they may be hard to follow? Or is there another reason?
Although I'm forced to say that I only had one teacher ask us to buy books/notes wrote by him. I do have one that give us the book (for both courses he taught) for free (it was my physics teacher, he really likes open-source I guess:)). Although the books are written in Portuguese, you can get them here. You can even download the.tex files.
For example Donald Knuth is/was a professor and even though the Art of Computer Programming may be hard to follow (for me anyways, but I'm a moron:) ) they are considered good books. Same thing with SICP, and other books that I'm forgetting right now.
I'm not from a English speaking country, so maybe it's different over here?
(...)extremely disappointing to the rest of the world who can't fathom why something so expensive, with such a long development time...still has not provided any research.
There a Duke Nukem Forever joke in there somewhere...
Slashdot Mirror
CAN I HAS LOLCATS?
Nethack
Second dungeon level. I see a fountain. Decide to drink from it to see if I could get a wish. Become surrounded by snakes.
Decided what my next step would be.
I had started with the Sleep spell, so I could make all the snakes fell asleep and then kill them with the help of my pet
I also had a scroll of Scare Monster so I could make them go away and climb to the previous level to recover health (I was low on health).
Or I could engrave the E-word and forced the snakes to not attack me for a few turns and wait to on that spot to heal back my health and in the meanwhile let my pet take care of them. The problem is that I only had a Magic Marker to engrave, and I didn't want to waste charges
I decided to play it safe and use the scroll of Scare Monster to run away because I wasn't sure I could cast Sleep on all the snakes before they killed me.
That being said, I heard that the game gets a little repetive the further you go down the dungeon.
Although one of the best games I played last year was I Wanna Be The Guy, which is pretty much linear (you can decide the order you take the paths, but you have to take them all), but it nailed that "One more try" feeling (especially when the try usually takes 1 or 2 seconds...).
Right now I've been playing a game that uses the same engine called I Wanna Be The Fangame except that music doesn't work on WINE, so it's not as fun to play as the original.
Well, they're not actually together... I mean there a "new" in there, that's got to count for something.
Right?
FOO!
J: My pardon; did I break thy concentration?
Continue! Ah, but now thy tongue is still.
Allow me then to offer a response.
Describe Marsellus Wallace to me, pray.
B: What?
J: What country dost thou hail from?
B: What?
J: How passing strange, for I have traveled far,
And never have I heard tell of this What.
What language speak they in the land of What?
B: What?
J: The Queen's own English, base knave, dost thou speak it?
B: Aye!
J: Then hearken to my words and answer them!
Describe to me Marsellus Wallace!
B: What?
JULES presses his knife to BRETT's throat
J: Speak 'What' again! Thou cur, cry 'What' again!
I dare thee utter 'What' again but once!
I dare thee twice and spit upon thy name!
Now, paint for me a portraiture in words,
If thou hast any in thy head but 'What',
Of Marsellus Wallace!
I'd rather use Malbolge
Is there an option to read Slashdot summaries in yellow roll-up text on a black background?
That's next year April's Fool joke right there
Skynet
demalloc()
Don't you mean free()?
There are Things Out There (which we don't yet fully understand) that have some of the attributes of a god
Oh, you're talking about programmers, aren't you?
As a example, a "normal" piece of software will be available on : Win XP Vista Win 7 Win2k
Notice for example that you didn't say Linux or OSX.
If this goes through, I think that the software boxes would start to say "This software was tested on this system, with this caracteristics and there may be different behaviour (that we can't be hold responsible for) on different configurations."
And let me guess... your password is hunter2, right?
but I'm a moron
Of course I would mistype the url to my physics teacher books.
Here is the page with the pdf files and .tex files (all in Portuguese, so they may not be very useful for the average slashdotter).
For example, just about every book that's used in education. Especially ones written by professors. They don't "work."
I know this is probably off-topic, but I must ask, as a young student, why do say that?
Is it because they are usually expensive and required to a course (that's taught by the professor who wrote it)? Because they may be hard to follow? Or is there another reason?
Although I'm forced to say that I only had one teacher ask us to buy books/notes wrote by him. I do have one that give us the book (for both courses he taught) for free (it was my physics teacher, he really likes open-source I guess :)). Although the books are written in Portuguese, you can get them here. You can even download the .tex files.
For example Donald Knuth is/was a professor and even though the Art of Computer Programming may be hard to follow (for me anyways, but I'm a moron :) ) they are considered good books. Same thing with SICP, and other books that I'm forgetting right now.
I'm not from a English speaking country, so maybe it's different over here?
and erupt flaming bile within the same discussion.
You should go see a doctor about that.
(...)extremely disappointing to the rest of the world who can't fathom why something so expensive, with such a long development time...still has not provided any research.
There a Duke Nukem Forever joke in there somewhere...
So, if you're adult, male, white, middle-class, christian, heterosexual, well-educated, you're fair game.
Thank God I'm atheist.
Now is the time to rise up from our comfy chairs, to rise up from our futons, to rise up from the depths of our basements!
Ahhh do I have to?
You want to sugar-coat it by using punch cards?
I say give them a list of opcodes and a piece of paper to write in.
COBOL
*insert your own Yo Momma joke here*
There you go.
Why not use texmaker, LED or even Lyx?
Does Vim count? If so, I give you Vimacs