The difference in summoning is that monsters can now cast spells from a distance; in 3.3 and before, they had to be standing next to you. If they summon more spellcasting monsters, together they can quickly fill a level.
I believe that it is considered a bug, and will be fixed in the next version. However, until then, the proper means of dealing with spellcasters is to dispatch them quickly or run for it. (I neglected to do that in my last ascension, and demilich in the castle nearly killed me.)
By the time you clear the mines, you should have 75-100 hitpoints (depending on class), AC between -5 and 0, and a good assortment of scrolls and wands. (Chances are about 1 in 3 or so that you'll have a wish, as well.) Barring something ridiculous like an arch-lich in the dungeons or a kobold with a wand of death, that equipment is enough to survive just about anything nethack will throw at you.
My experience corroborates this; I can't remember the last time that I died after the mines that wasn't due to my own stupidity. (Note, of couse, that I said "if you don't screw up"... I probably screw up more often than not, and I suspect that most other people do too.)
Huh. Well, I thought that my games were recorded properly. It looks like the first half of that game is missing. (The second half starts on dungeon level 23, so I suppose it's not helpful.) Figures.
Well... not to toot my own horn, but if you look at the recorded games for 'aardvark', my ascension is in there. (It's split into two files, as I saved my game; I was playing as a neutral male human barbarian.)
My biggest recommendation for that stage of the game is to always make sure you think about what you're doing before wading into battle. By the time you've cleared the mines, an ascension is nearly guaranteed if you don't screw up. Whenever you get killed, look at your inventory and try to think of a way you could have saved yourself.
Are you saying that we should not have laws, or try to enforce them?
No. To quote your previous comment:
"You have got to be kidding, The term monopoly in this context has a specific legal meaning. During the first trial Microsoft was proven IN A COURT OF LAW to be a Monopoly, AND to have violated the law by illegally using that monopoly position to stifle competition."
Your only support for your position is that "the legal system says so." Therefore, your conclusion is only as good as the legal system. If you want to argue that Microsoft is a monopoly, then use some real evidence, rather than relying on what someone of dubious reliability says.
No... a karma whore is someone who makes the standard "M$ is evil and Windows sucks because..." comment, and then later that day makes the standard "Linux has no following because the GUI is substandard", and then later says, "I'd like to get away from Windows, but I've just got to play Foobar Shoot 'em up 2578."... and so on, and so on; insert standard arguments on all subjects that come up on/. regularly.
I don't really mind a little karma whoring here and there; I suppose I've been guilty of it myself on a few occasions. The sheer banality of a lot of the high-ranked comments sometimes gets to me, however. (Granted, if meaningless numbers on a message board impacts my happiness, I really ought to take a break from slashdot for awhile...:)
Maybe I should revise the above statement and say that their agenda is "Anything But Windows"?
Nah... probably more than half of the crowd in question dual boots ("for games", they all say), so that wouldn't be accurate either. The only accurate statement for their agenda is "Karma Whores."
No -- but if you signed an agreement which says, "This car will explode when you turn on the ignition", and you still got in the car and turned the key, I'd just call it natural selection in action.
and you of course read all your end user agreements in full right? riiiiight....
Yes, I do. What kind of idiot makes an agreement without reading the terms? Nobody's being "duped" into anything -- they're being told exactly what's going on.
I would prefer to not have the government claim that agreements that I make are void, just because stupid people can't be bothered to think.
Why not lobby for distributed and P2P features right in the Linux kernel itself?
Woah, hold on a second... you mean in Linux distributions, not the kernel, right? (Just clarifying...from the rest of your comment, I think that's what you meant.)
That aside, I like the idea. Anyone here have any clout within the major distros? It should pretty much just be a matter of adding the relevant program to the distribution... and I don't see any real downsides.
So, do you (or anyone else) have links to good info on the best way to improve the quality? It's something that I was curious about once, but I never really found the info I needed.
So, I'm curious -- is "freedom of press" taken to mean "the press can do whatever they want" everywhere outside the US? At least, when I think of freedom of press, what I think of is allowing them to publish whatever they want, which doesn't seem to be the issue that they're addressing. The notion that a journalist should be exempt from the laws and restrictions that bind other people strikes me as completely bizarre.
Well, as for speed: check out usenet sometime. If you're spending days of transfer time to get a movie, you're going about it the hard way. (Admittedly, I don't know how fasts requests are filled in most of the relevant newsgroups... my impressions are based on occasional leeching.) You're probably not going to get a much faster transfer rate that using your ISP's news server. As far as streaming goes... it should actually be theoretically possible to stream a movie off your news server, if your download rate is fast enough... it seems that most large usenet posts are the movie file, split into pieces. If enough people actually wanted it, it should be fairly straightforward to recombine the parts as you recieve them, while playing the movie. (Has this already been done, or did I just come up with something new?)
I don't quite understand your logic as to why people would be less likely to share if it's cheaper. If something costs me $15 or $20, I'm probably less likely to go to the trouble to share it than if it cost $1 or $5. Now, I can see that people would go to less effort to find it elsewhere if they knew it only cost a few dollars... I could understand that.
Overall, I don't think that those people who are already downloading their movies would change their habits. They'll just enjoy the influx of high-quality movies on their favorite P2P networks. Probably most of the customers would be those who would be otherwise buying or renting movies. The question is whether those people will start watching more movies if this service was offered.
Lynx is still very useful when you're using a shell account, or on a machine that can't run a graphical browser (Several times, I've used Lynx to look things up when trying to fix X.) I've got a secret for you: Lynx is 21st century technology. No, they didn't stop updating it just because graphical browsers grew in popularity. The notion that text == old and graphics == new is nonsense -- The vast majority of the web is presented most effectively with text.
That said, I agree with the ruling -- I don't think that the government should force somebody to make web paged text-accessible. I excercise my choice to avoid graphics-laden sites without text access, and encourage others to do the same. The appropriate way to fix these sites is pressure from users, not by legislation.
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You know, the only thing I hate more than idiots who miss the point are the high-and-mighty people who claim that they are so infallible and well-educated that everyone who disagrees must be an idiot.
I don't follow. How is that self-contradictory? It's not their job to handle the problem caused by Slashdot. I've reread my thatement several times, and cannot find anything resembling a conflict there.
You claim: "When you put up a site it's for the express purpose of letting interested people visit it." The slashdot effect prevents that. Slashdot is in a position to solve the problem -- easily. It's simply the ego of the/. editors that makes this happen.
The banal comments that make it to +5 aren't worthy of the title "troll". (And, of course, they all sound the same whether they were intended to be trolls or not.) The more clever ones are generally sitting at +1 or so.
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...And will it be worth the extra 19 years it will take to make it usable?
I believe that it is considered a bug, and will be fixed in the next version. However, until then, the proper means of dealing with spellcasters is to dispatch them quickly or run for it. (I neglected to do that in my last ascension, and demilich in the castle nearly killed me.)
My experience corroborates this; I can't remember the last time that I died after the mines that wasn't due to my own stupidity. (Note, of couse, that I said "if you don't screw up"
Huh. Well, I thought that my games were recorded properly. It looks like the first half of that game is missing. (The second half starts on dungeon level 23, so I suppose it's not helpful.) Figures.
My biggest recommendation for that stage of the game is to always make sure you think about what you're doing before wading into battle. By the time you've cleared the mines, an ascension is nearly guaranteed if you don't screw up. Whenever you get killed, look at your inventory and try to think of a way you could have saved yourself.
An evil person wouldn't make the donations that Bill Gates does of his own accord.
Are you saying that we should not have laws, or try to enforce them?
No. To quote your previous comment:
"You have got to be kidding, The term monopoly in this context has a specific legal meaning. During the first trial Microsoft was proven IN A COURT OF LAW to be a Monopoly, AND to have violated the law by illegally using that monopoly position to stifle competition."
Your only support for your position is that "the legal system says so." Therefore, your conclusion is only as good as the legal system. If you want to argue that Microsoft is a monopoly, then use some real evidence, rather than relying on what someone of dubious reliability says.
I agree with the OP.
I do however appreciate a good story ark...
...So I guess you reread Genesis 6-8 a lot, right?
Hey, watch this:
Windows sucks!
And watch the karma roll in
I don't really mind a little karma whoring here and there; I suppose I've been guilty of it myself on a few occasions. The sheer banality of a lot of the high-ranked comments sometimes gets to me, however. (Granted, if meaningless numbers on a message board impacts my happiness, I really ought to take a break from slashdot for awhile
Nah
Any you understand legalize? I often don't fully understand what was being said in an EULA when I do read it.
If I don't understand something, I won't agree to it. It's common sense.
No -- but if you signed an agreement which says, "This car will explode when you turn on the ignition", and you still got in the car and turned the key, I'd just call it natural selection in action.
Yes, I do. What kind of idiot makes an agreement without reading the terms? Nobody's being "duped" into anything -- they're being told exactly what's going on.
I would prefer to not have the government claim that agreements that I make are void, just because stupid people can't be bothered to think.
Wait ... so you're saying that this ought to be illegal?
IMO, if you click "yes", you deserve exactly what you get.
Woah, hold on a second
That aside, I like the idea. Anyone here have any clout within the major distros? It should pretty much just be a matter of adding the relevant program to the distribution
Yeah, that was off topic. Don't try to divert the discussion into one about monitors, darkov!
So, do you (or anyone else) have links to good info on the best way to improve the quality? It's something that I was curious about once, but I never really found the info I needed.
So, I'm curious -- is "freedom of press" taken to mean "the press can do whatever they want" everywhere outside the US? At least, when I think of freedom of press, what I think of is allowing them to publish whatever they want, which doesn't seem to be the issue that they're addressing. The notion that a journalist should be exempt from the laws and restrictions that bind other people strikes me as completely bizarre.
I don't quite understand your logic as to why people would be less likely to share if it's cheaper. If something costs me $15 or $20, I'm probably less likely to go to the trouble to share it than if it cost $1 or $5. Now, I can see that people would go to less effort to find it elsewhere if they knew it only cost a few dollars
Overall, I don't think that those people who are already downloading their movies would change their habits. They'll just enjoy the influx of high-quality movies on their favorite P2P networks. Probably most of the customers would be those who would be otherwise buying or renting movies. The question is whether those people will start watching more movies if this service was offered.
That said, I agree with the ruling -- I don't think that the government should force somebody to make web paged text-accessible. I excercise my choice to avoid graphics-laden sites without text access, and encourage others to do the same. The appropriate way to fix these sites is pressure from users, not by legislation.
You know, the only thing I hate more than idiots who miss the point are the high-and-mighty people who claim that they are so infallible and well-educated that everyone who disagrees must be an idiot.
You claim: "When you put up a site it's for the express purpose of letting interested people visit it." The slashdot effect prevents that. Slashdot is in a position to solve the problem -- easily. It's simply the ego of the
The banal comments that make it to +5 aren't worthy of the title "troll". (And, of course, they all sound the same whether they were intended to be trolls or not.) The more clever ones are generally sitting at +1 or so.