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@rodneylives Ha, reminds me of the #NetHack wiki and all the shit we went through.
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Why, when playing #Nethack, I push the arrow keys with more energy if I have to attack a monster or kick a door? 
I know it's totally irrational… but I make it the same.
#Nethack tip: when you find a leprechaun hall, first kill the greedy bastards in a line, so they can't run away.
Well, this is strange. Somebody just emailed me saying that they had found an old Chinese book and were wondering if it was valuable. The title is 網俠, or "Knight of the Nets", which I'd never heard of and can find no information on.
The thing is, it's not really text. The pages are filled with random characters in what looks like a square grid, but most of the squares are blank. Sometimes there are short sentences at the top of the page, often in the second person, like they're addressing the reader.
The scan I was sent is a bit hard to make out, so I copied some of the grid on paper. As best as I can tell, the accompanying sentence here says something like "you [honorific] hear the sound of water falling on coins of gold".
There is no information about the author, the publisher, or the year of publication, only a date of some sort on the first page: the first day of the fourth month.
Any ideas?
Se fate ZAP con una wand of death evitate che il raggio rimbalzi contro un muro e vi torni addosso.
Non chiedete come faccio a saperlo.
I just resurrected my old netbook (1 GB RAM! 250 GB space! 32 bit architecture!) and installed Bodhi Linux on it. I even got Wi-Fi to work!
I'm hoping to use it as a portable distraction-free typing machine. Also, nethack.
I also welcome opinions on what the best and easiest-to-install lightweight Linux distribution is. #linux #netbook #nethack
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No, Gustavino, in #Nethack NON esiste una spina elastica per fissare l'impugnatura di Excalibur alla lama, stavi già sognando(¹)… ma le spine elastiche da 2,5 mm(²) vanno meglio del liquido frenafiletti per fissare i dadi alti alle barre filettate, almeno si possono rimuovere alla bisogna 
Posso tornare a letto fino alla prossima idea.
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¹ ovviamente prima di scrivere si consulta https://nethackwiki.com/index.php?title=Special:Search&search=elastic
² in "cassettini alti", riga 8, col. 8, così so cosa devo fare domani.
nethackwiki.comSearch results for "elastic" - NetHack Wiki
A tip for #nethack new gamers: tripe¹ is not generally considered a prelibacy, like in many European countries²!
So keep it for your non-vegan pet and eat something else (or pray, at least in the game it can work).
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nethackwiki.comTripe ration - NetHack WikiA tripe ration, informally known as simply tripe, is a type of comestible item that appears in NetHack. It is fleshy and not vegetarian or vegan.
It's my day off, but I'm babysitting a remote session by a vendor's support tech. So of course I'm playing #nethack. My only problem is I'm sshed into a Linux server from a Mac, and I can't figure out how to do send Meta key commands. The weird thing is, it's sending the Meta key, but it's changing the companion key. So M-f receives the error "Unknown command 'M-^R'. The thing that really bugs me is I think I used to know why this is, but I definitely don't anymore!
played nintendo for the first time yesterday after a couple months off to let my middle-finger tendinitis heal. an hour. today: burning pain, my hands feel 70 years old. i guess my console-gaming days are done! #nethack it is, then
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@b0rk speaking only for myself: PuTTY's default colours follow that CGA palette _except_ that colour 6 is dark yellow #AAAA00 instead of the anomalous brown #AA5500.
Rationale: not all terminals do bold by changing the colour. Some vary the font weight instead. Applications written for those will expect yellow to be yellow, whether it's bold or not.
But when playing #NetHack I used to send a palette-control sequence to go back to brown, because NH uses that colour for brown monsters!
What kind of bug would make machine learning suddenly 40% worse at NetHack? - Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson)
Members of the Legendary Compu... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=2028789 #reinforcementlearning #imitationlearning #machinelearning #softwarebugs #roguelikes #moonphase #roguelike #nethack #gaming #bugs #cuda #ai
Ars Technica · What kind of bug would make machine learning suddenly 40% worse at NetHack?One day, a roguelike-playing system just kept biffing it, for celestial reasons.
A brief resume of my interests:
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@amigalove #NetHack isn't ported to the Amiga anymore, because no-one in the DevTeam uses Amiga these days, and no person outside the team volunteered to support the port.
There were few people who emailed us during 3.6 development wanting to maintain the Amiga port, but nothing ever came out of that.
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report: I am not nearly knowledgeable enough to actually ascend even under the best of circumstances so I just threw myself at the game with reckless abandon to see what happens
I found a random amulet and put it on.
I discovered about two minutes later when my character resurrected at the feet of a giant spider that it was a priceless amulet of life saving. Which is astoundingly lucky.
But then I ate some tripe, got sick and died while fighting one (1) ant, so.
reminder: tomorrow, October 13, 2023 will be the most difficult day to play nethack for years in either direction and ascending during this confluence of bad luck would be turboswag. https://nethackwiki.com/wiki/Time
nethackwiki.comTime - NetHack WikiJust as in real life, the NetHack world goes through several phases of the moon. [1] These have an effect on gameplay.