Re: [OT] Live, the Universe and Fish

Do 27.11.03 Arien Malec the Slinger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]),
            A High Priest of Yredelemnul,
            Crawled into REC.GAMES.ROGUELIKE.MISC at 16:08h
            And roared the following.
            It didn't last long.

> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tina Hall) wrote in
> news:MSGID_2=3A2437=2F22.13 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
> > Mi 26.11.03 Arien Malec the Ruffian ([EMAIL PROTECTED]),

> > You know all the same type of people?
>
> As you know?

I don't.

> Or all the people I know are the same kind of people?

Eh, yes.

> (It actually is not true, but is mostly true).

That you know all the same type of people?

> > [design of the universe?]
> >> Can it make sense without having a purpose?
> >
>> Hm? Yes, but that doesn't matter. That it doesn't make sense
>> is the whole point.
>
> But it can make sense purposelessly (or it can not make sense
> purposely.)

Eh. Yes?

[Getting reborn to Hell]
> > Nono. All you have to do is get reborn, and you'll be right back
> > here. :)
>
> That sounds like Crawl too. :-)

True. You're just trying to get the curve [*] back to being on-
topic, though, and that's cheating. ;P

[*] Incase I'm being incomprehensible again, 'get the curve' is a
phrase around here, something about changing behaviour or
subject, sort of by hanging by your fingertips, as in hard to
accomplish. Well, roughly anyway. I think I've lost my
thought->word processor. (I've recently been told that it's not
normal not to think in words, but there you go...)

'Scratching the curve' means something else, incase you're
wondering (not that there's any reason you should).

Ehm. I think that fresh air this afternoon didn't do me any good.

How about I tell you about my current character? Really crazy
guy. I'm keeping some of the dumps (made during the game) for the
messages and stuff, to do a proper report afterwards.

Or I show you something I stumbled across (again) in XP while
fiddling around with the colour settings (there's more of this
stuff hidden away elsewhere). The little window where you get the
example colours shown for choices:

+--------------------------------------------+
| AB      Add Backwards                      |
| ACDC    Allow Controller to die peacefully |
| AIB     Attack Innocent Bystander          |
| BMP     Branch and Make Popcorn            |
| CFP     Change and Forget Password         |
| CRN     Convert to Roman Numerals          |
| DCGC    Dump Confusing Garbage to Console  |
| DCR     Double precision CRash             |
| DK      Destroy Klingons                   |
+--------------------------------------------+
||> Ja <||  Nein  ||  Vielleicht  |          |
+--------------------------------------------+

(Ja is Yes, Nein is No and Vielleicht is Maybe.)

Just possibly, Peter Mandrella (the programmer of this) got too
much fresh air, too. :)

>> Btw, I wish there was some target-option to go through items
>> instead of monsters (for 'x').
>
> Darshan? :-)

Doesn't he have enough to do already? It could save
life^H^Hves^H^H^Hfes<check dictionary>, though. Trying to target
some mimic, I first hit myself with a Sticky Flame, and then some
other spell. That was stupid. <g>

Why aren't they targeted anyway? They're shown with Detect
Monsters after all...

>> I've only just learned of the +/- feature with targetting, and
>> now I'm starting to find it tedious to move the cursor to the
>> items manually...
>
> Try playing Nethack sometime....

LOL.

> It will drive you crazy to only be able to shoot in 8
> directions. BTW, the +/- targetting is in the manual....

Could only drive me normal, if anything. You know they say
genious and madness lie close together? I decided to go the
'crazy'-route to get there; more fun. (Or maybe it's really just
the fresh air, or the vitamin juice. Horrible stuff, both of
them.)

> > What do you mean by 'IIR'?
>
> If I Recall.

If you recall 'what/how'?

> > There's the 'C' missing from If I Remember/Recall Correctly
>
> Oh, now you want me to recall it correctly?

I'd like you to recall it in some way or another. :) That you
recall something is obvious by whatever comment follows, so
somehow just 'IIR' doesn't seem to make any sense.

> >> But I'd place the newbie/non-newbie barrier at entering one of
> >> the side branches (not counting the temple). You are clearly
> >> non-newbie when you have cleared out a level.
> >
> > I've cleared out the first level lots of times! ;P
>
> Branch, damnit.

Any branch?

> > Maybe some other DE spellcaster with better early defenses would
> > help, or some other FE that isn't quite as frail?
>
> I've found DEFEs pretty devastating. I've been skipping sticky flame
> to get to bolt, and that is awfully fun.

Sticky Flame is Fun, though. It goes like: <cast> <snicker> <run>
<wait>

Unless of course you cast it on yourself.

> All my deaths have been YASDs...

What did you do?

> > It isn't being taxing that bothers me, but mostly just the time
> > wasted that I could spend more entertaining... Hmmm... I'd need
> > to be able to teleport, too, then. And get stuff from the shop
> > without having to go there, and having the bank transfer the
> > money (to the shop, too, of course) without having to go there...
>
> That, I do all the time (that Internet thingy again).

Would only cost extra money, so even with that internet thingy it
wouldn't be available the way I want (and it'd cost time to do
it).

> > Magic doesn't need some device, it's just your mind that does the
> > manipulating directly. Otherwise writing/transfering this post
> > could be classed as magic, too. It's not a letter written by hand
> > on paper and delivered by a postman, after all. It's just some
> > mysterious electronic device.
>
> Magic. Someone's third law, or something.

I don't understand that.

Hmmm... There's something missing here. Oh, yes...
<tong between teeth> teee ehn <^H> ee ehn ah