This is why, when people ask, I say "nethack is more of a life simulator".
Your pet cat gets crushed by a boulder, you get polymorphed into a frog by a gnome with a wand, your bag of holding explodes on you, and you die from choking on a can of spinach.
Linux nerds, it's time to put your money where your mouth is. I for one am going to show my support for games such as MOO3 that support Linux by actually buying them. No, I won't "dl l33t w4r3Z". I'm gonna pay $50 or whatever it is at my local EB for a copy of this game. Actually, I might want two copies. One for playing at home, and one for playing on my Linux laptop.
I'd like to heartily second this site. It's run by my friend Pooya Woodcock, who is even more of a Nethack loonie than I am. He's a wiz at coding Perl and so he runs the best public Nethack server around.
The boulder/landmine bug was a serious problem that was identified with release 3.4.0 a few days after it was released. Unfortunately, the release had already been shipped, and so everyone had to either patch it on their own (which involved a re-compile, something Windows users simply seem to lack the skill for) or wait for 3.4.1.
In the game of Nethack there are many things... these things happen to include boulders that block your path and can be pushed around, as well as rare traps called landmines. When a landmine explodes, it leaves a pit behind. Boulders fill up pit. When you push a boulder onto a landmine, it triggers a panic in the program, which dumps out on you without the possibility of even recovering your saved game.
If anyone is interested in playing Nethack but you don't want to go through the trouble of setting it up for yourself, you can simply play on my public server. SSH or telnet into fyre.sytes.net with username "yasd", password "yasd". You'll be able to set up a username, preferences, and get started playing Nethack. Good luck with your 'hacking!
The interface is awful, the game is deliberately user-hostile, and you die constantly in ways you can't possibly prevent (boulder trap on level 1, for instance).
Not true. I happen to play a lot of Nethack and boulder traps won't start showing up until level 6 or after.
The winning Powerball lottery numbers for week one, 1996 are 23 53 27 06 28 12... for week two of 1996 they are....... up to the present. Yeah, I'd be a billionaire. I could also tell my past self which stock to invest in each day that I know now grew the most on that day. Hmmm, I could be a trillionaire:-)
How do you define kiddy porn? If you're a typical 16-year-old teenager, is it so wrong to want to see naked pictures of girls your own age? I mean, a lot of 16-year-olds are already having sex anyway (except for the abstinent nerds who read Slashdot), so they're already seeing _and_ interacting with naked girls their own age. Wouldn't just seeing naked pictures of them be less bad?
We've already been using computers for years to download pr0n consisting of images of naked living cells. It's only natural that the distribution medium itself should be made from living cells.
We need to take extra precautions to preserve some "movies", because, ahhh, they contain certain "positions" unlikely to be witnessed before or since outside of their "industry." I will therefore generously donate 500 burnt CD's of such movies to the people compiling this digital library.
Within one month of the journal censoring the gory biological details, some person claiming to be a "current employee of a large monthly biological warfare scientific journal" will post all the secret details to Slashdot under the nickname Anonymous Coward. The information will never become useful to the terrorists, because even they aren't crazy enough to view posts at the -1 threshold.
Who is this woman? I, and probably many other people on here, would be willing to donate money to her cause to "go the distance" in the courtroom instead of accepting an undisclosed settlement. Any takers?
Hey Dave, I've been a native reader of the Washington D.C. area for my entire life, and I've enjoyed your column for years.
A while ago you wrote a column about the Illuminati's infiltration of the government. You said that the proof is that the pyramid with the eye above it symbol appears on some of the dollar bills. You further requested that any readers with such dollar bills mail them to you for investigation. Well, I rounded up all the dollar bills in my house, and much to my surprise, many of them bore the telltale mark of the Illuminati! I am eagerly awaiting your analysis of the Illuminati's infiltration of the government based on the evidence provided by my dollar bills. Thanks so much, Ben McIlwain.
Slashdot Mirror
There are no known ways to herd a cat. Now, if you're talking about skinning it ...
Wow, finally, a slashdotter for whom the saying "IANAL, but ..." does not apply.
Maybe if you want people to listen to you, you shouldn't be posting anonymously?
This is why, when people ask, I say "nethack is more of a life simulator".
Your pet cat gets crushed by a boulder, you get polymorphed into a frog by a gnome with a wand, your bag of holding explodes on you, and you die from choking on a can of spinach.
Yeah, that pretty much sums up life to me.
Linux nerds, it's time to put your money where your mouth is. I for one am going to show my support for games such as MOO3 that support Linux by actually buying them. No, I won't "dl l33t w4r3Z". I'm gonna pay $50 or whatever it is at my local EB for a copy of this game. Actually, I might want two copies. One for playing at home, and one for playing on my Linux laptop.
Holy crap, this must be a first. My Nethack server is gonna get slashdotted at this rate!
Try this site [antisymmetric.com].
I'd like to heartily second this site. It's run by my friend Pooya Woodcock, who is even more of a Nethack loonie than I am. He's a wiz at coding Perl and so he runs the best public Nethack server around.
The boulder/landmine bug was a serious problem that was identified with release 3.4.0 a few days after it was released. Unfortunately, the release had already been shipped, and so everyone had to either patch it on their own (which involved a re-compile, something Windows users simply seem to lack the skill for) or wait for 3.4.1.
... these things happen to include boulders that block your path and can be pushed around, as well as rare traps called landmines. When a landmine explodes, it leaves a pit behind. Boulders fill up pit. When you push a boulder onto a landmine, it triggers a panic in the program, which dumps out on you without the possibility of even recovering your saved game.
In the game of Nethack there are many things
If anyone is interested in playing Nethack but you don't want to go through the trouble of setting it up for yourself, you can simply play on my public server. SSH or telnet into fyre.sytes.net with username "yasd", password "yasd". You'll be able to set up a username, preferences, and get started playing Nethack. Good luck with your 'hacking!
The interface is awful, the game is deliberately user-hostile, and you die constantly in ways you can't possibly prevent (boulder trap on level 1, for instance). Not true. I happen to play a lot of Nethack and boulder traps won't start showing up until level 6 or after.
Dear past self:
... for week two of 1996 they are ....... up to the present. Yeah, I'd be a billionaire. I could also tell my past self which stock to invest in each day that I know now grew the most on that day. Hmmm, I could be a trillionaire :-)
The winning Powerball lottery numbers for week one, 1996 are 23 53 27 06 28 12
How do you define kiddy porn? If you're a typical 16-year-old teenager, is it so wrong to want to see naked pictures of girls your own age? I mean, a lot of 16-year-olds are already having sex anyway (except for the abstinent nerds who read Slashdot), so they're already seeing _and_ interacting with naked girls their own age. Wouldn't just seeing naked pictures of them be less bad?
We've already been using computers for years to download pr0n consisting of images of naked living cells. It's only natural that the distribution medium itself should be made from living cells.
I will not purchase Windows!
I can recommend many places you can "obtain" Windows without purchasing it.
If funding is a problem, I can easily "throw away" a few billion on this project ...
We need to take extra precautions to preserve some "movies", because, ahhh, they contain certain "positions" unlikely to be witnessed before or since outside of their "industry." I will therefore generously donate 500 burnt CD's of such movies to the people compiling this digital library.
Within one month of the journal censoring the gory biological details, some person claiming to be a "current employee of a large monthly biological warfare scientific journal" will post all the secret details to Slashdot under the nickname Anonymous Coward. The information will never become useful to the terrorists, because even they aren't crazy enough to view posts at the -1 threshold.
I love Slashdot when the titles of articles contain obvious puns. Here's an even better title for this article:
Joltage Spreads Rolling Blackouts Across California As It Powers Down
Yeah, I remember Firefly
That was an awesome TV show
What it has to do with peer to peer file sharing
I do not know.
I want to see the ultimate Macintosh keyboard ... one big white button in the center. That's it.
More than 1 million people have signed up for [Wisconsin's] "do-not-call" list.
... BADA-BANG!
That pretty amazing, considering less than 1 million people live in Wisconsin
Terahertz? Screw that! I want teraBYTE images!
And in other news, a webserver blew up in Europe earlier today, taking out most of France.
Who is this woman? I, and probably many other people on here, would be willing to donate money to her cause to "go the distance" in the courtroom instead of accepting an undisclosed settlement. Any takers?
And once again the villainous Slashdot editors pull a Lone Gunman on the unsuspecting Slashdot throng.
Hey Dave, I've been a native reader of the Washington D.C. area for my entire life, and I've enjoyed your column for years.
A while ago you wrote a column about the Illuminati's infiltration of the government. You said that the proof is that the pyramid with the eye above it symbol appears on some of the dollar bills. You further requested that any readers with such dollar bills mail them to you for investigation. Well, I rounded up all the dollar bills in my house, and much to my surprise, many of them bore the telltale mark of the Illuminati! I am eagerly awaiting your analysis of the Illuminati's infiltration of the government based on the evidence provided by my dollar bills. Thanks so much, Ben McIlwain.
I wanna see Natalie Portman!