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  1. Angband on Ask Slashdot: What Games Are You Playing? · · Score: 1

    Still. Of course.

  2. Re:Also known as... on "Badass" Bug Infects and Kills Borderlands 2 Characters · · Score: 1

    Agreed. Rogue has been out over 30 years, and finally console games have caught up.

  3. Re:Caldera? on In Bolivia, a Supervolcano Is Rising · · Score: 1

    I think a caldera is just the left over empty bowl of a volcano that collapses in on itself or explodes out. Like Crater Lake in Oregon.

    Or SCO.

  4. Re:Nethack?! on First NetHack Cross-Variant Summer Tournament · · Score: 1

    Whatever. I just couldn't let a NH thread go without at least a token religious war ;)
    Nice link, btw.

  5. Nethack?! on First NetHack Cross-Variant Summer Tournament · · Score: 1

    Why not play a real game?

  6. Well on How Analytics Are Shaping Social Games · · Score: 1

    Seems to me (from a position of very little knowledge - I certainly didn't RTFA) that people who play these games may be getting exactly what they deserve...

  7. Balance of Coverage on Japan Doubles Fukushima Radiation Leak Estimate · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Compare and contrast:
    1. From the IAEA's preliminary report (pdf):

    To date no health effects have been reported in any person as a result of radiation exposure from the nuclear accident.

    2. From Wikipedia's page on the 2011 tsunami:

    The Japanese National Police Agency has confirmed 15,365 deaths, 5,363 injured, and 8,206 people missing

    Just sayin'.

  8. Oblig on Meteorites Brought Ingredients of Life To Earth · · Score: 2

    Personally, I welcome our meteorite-borne ancestral overlords.

  9. Re:Not an australian voter... on A How-To Website For Australian Voters · · Score: 1

    The ballot in NSW is NSFW.

    That's what people from the other states call NSW.

  10. Re:Sheesh.... on Gaming Without a Safety Blanket · · Score: 2, Informative

    Try http://angband.oook.cz/> Angband, http://www.nethack.org/> Nethack, http://www.adom.de/> ADOM, http://crawl.develz.org/wordpress/> Crawl, or start looking at http://roguebasin.roguelikedevelopment.org/> Roguebasin. Then you'll be really living. Briefly.

  11. Re:Take THIS, China on China Says US Uses Facebook To Spread Political Unrest · · Score: 1

    That's it. I am unfriending China.

    Hey, China still cool!

  12. Re:Three movies... on The Hobbit On Hold · · Score: 1

    Lord of the Rings.. three movies of nothing but walking...

    Yes, in the same way that Die Hard is four movies of nothing but architecture.

  13. I'm so glad... on Rupert Murdoch Hates Google, Loves the iPad · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...that bastard isn't Australian any more.

  14. Re:I'll shoot anyone in the face who says that I'm on Another Study Attacks Violent Video Games, Claims To Be "Conclusive" · · Score: 1

    You're vi? Nice to meet you, vi, I'm emacs.

    You're not really emacs - emacs would never say that.

  15. Re:Nope. on IOC Claims Olympian Lindsey Vonn's Name As Intellectual Property · · Score: 1

    What if your name is Prince?

    The one and only?

  16. Re:Reality check, folks on AU Gov't Still Wants ISPs To Solve Illegal Downloads · · Score: 1

    Piracy will stop, eventually. One way or another.

    What, and we'll go back to the good old days when nobody ever took anything that wasn't theirs?

  17. Well, don't listen... on Music While Programming? · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...sing. Loudly.

  18. Originally by Douglas Adams on Explaining Corporate Culture Through "The Office" · · Score: 1

    The three categories are pretty much the occupants of the A, B and C arks. Cue the mutant space goat.

  19. Re:Or may not have on Something May Have Just Hit Jupiter · · Score: 1

    Here are the latest images at a more, um, robust location. Note the confirmation from JPL/NASA.

  20. Re:Imagination. on A History of Rogue · · Score: 1

    The Furytech mirror has a huge collection of Angband variants. There are also Angband web forums where you can ask or find answers to this and other important questions.

  21. My first thought on FAA Network Hacked · · Score: 1

    Why would anyone want to hack FAAngband ?

  22. Re:Incredible on Hadron Collider Relaunch Delayed · · Score: 1

    I believe we've encountered this time stream before.

  23. Incredible on Hadron Collider Relaunch Delayed · · Score: 5, Funny

    It was only on a few days, and already they've achieved time travel.

  24. Re:carbon monoxide is toxic on A Waste Gasification Plant In a Truck · · Score: 1

    From Article

    The pellets are dropped into the aforementioned downdraft gasifier, which breaks them down under high heat into a mix of methane, carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, hydrogen, and nitrogen. Finally, this "syngas" is sucked into a generator or microturbine to make electricity, or piped to a furnace to make heat.

    The summary has the idea that carbon monoxide is NOT an green house gas. While, this might be true the gas is then burned which should result in carbon dioxide.

    Moreover, the methane will produce carbon dioxide on burning, and the oxides of nitrogen are either greenhouse gases or toxic. TFA might be glossing over a couple of things. Processing waste is a good thing, but no magic bullet.

  25. Re:Angband prior art on Nintendo Files Patent For Game That Plays Itself · · Score: 2, Insightful

    IIRC Angband bots did that.

    And they still do. The Angband borg and screensaver is available at http://itctel.com/~apwhite/andrew.html