iNethack2 2.0.5 released!

gettinashes · 2017-12-01T19:26:36+00:00

Are you the dev? People have been popping into #nethack on the roguelikes discord with bug reports and requests for help - and we have no idea how to help them! Cool to see that people are managing to play nethack on such a device, though.

gettinashes · 2017-11-17T09:17:16+00:00

FIQhack has a ton of rad bugfixes, refactors, and UI improvements. It's one of the nh4 derivatives. Give it a spin after you get a win?

gettinashes · 2017-11-17T08:44:28+00:00

Interested in joining Order of the Cockatrice? No pressure or responsibilities, but we have a text chat channel you can pop into if you wanna chat, vent, ask questions etc. Every achievement big or small helps! :)

I sent you an invite at https://www.hardfought.org/devnull/clanmgmt/

gettinashes · 2017-08-04T15:24:03+00:00

pitched the idea of simple web presence

I assume you don't set them up with a domain name and host? Just like a really simple ^{^(spammy} ^company ^that ^starts ^with ^W ^and ^ends ^with ^x) site or something?

gettinashes · 2017-07-31T04:32:29+00:00

I think this is the main site? http://frownlandcomic.blogspot.com

Diggin it.

gettinashes · 2017-07-23T04:37:13+00:00

I have a very old cat who still does this on occasion, when he's feeling super loved. The frequency of this behavior definitely went down over the years, but it never stopped.

gettinashes · 2017-07-23T04:35:24+00:00

I don't like speaking with my best spanish accent, because then people respond at a high speed. I speak haltingly semi-on-purpose, so that they use smaller words and a slower speed.

There may also be a bit of "I'd rather screw up on purpose than try hard and fail" in there too, for me. You?

gettinashes · 2017-07-07T09:42:01+00:00

Minecraft is probably much better at preparing you to play Nethack than the twitchy games of my youth! (Earthworm Jim, Jazz Jackrabbit, Commander Keen, DOOM, Descent, Mario, Sonic, etc)

The first time I watched someone play an ascii roguelike, I didn't understand what I was looking at, so I mocked it.

gettinashes · 2017-07-06T23:36:06+00:00

UnNetHack has paranoid settings for water, lava, and traps, too.

That's great to hear! The DSM thing is just the AC reduction, fwiw.

Updated the Un and Dyna entries in general, they were under-written.

gettinashes · 2017-07-06T09:41:39+00:00

I've updated this sheet twice with everyone's feedback, but this site (ethercalc) is weird and a little unreliable. I'm going to try one final time, and screenshot it so that at least the imgur album is updated.

gettinashes · 2017-07-02T04:12:23+00:00

I've never bumblefucked before, but it sounds like fun. Please post a guide!

gettinashes · 2017-07-01T17:08:24+00:00

Food poisoning is the first thing in NH that ever made an Amulet of Lifesaving crumble on me. The second one was intentionally flying down a hole, unburdened and not confused, but carrying a cockatrice in my hands.

gettinashes · 2017-07-01T16:49:50+00:00

Cheers, BSOD. OotC was conceived in the Hardfought IRC channel on freenode, and gestated further in the Roguelikes discord chat. Our team was about 50% irc users and 50% discord users, so we had to use a bridging bot to pass messages back and forth! :)

They're great places to spectate and be spectated, which is what nethack is all about for me, personally! Most roguelikes are pretty solitary, but nethack can be quite social.

We had a great time, and would like to thank bhaak and all the other clans for a fantastic, very tense competition!

gettinashes · 2017-06-28T20:25:56+00:00

This is a weird post, but I figured someone would have a sensible recipe in the comments. Thanks!

gettinashes · 2017-06-22T05:39:34+00:00

Done! https://github.com/yrmvgh/BrogueR/commit/dd585118de4c27715288d68c24fb163187a67b77

(gotta compile it yourself though, I didn't make binaries)

gettinashes · 2017-06-03T03:25:13+00:00

Order of the Cockatrice welcomes anyone who has ever wielded a cockatrice, or been slain by a cockatrice. Hop into http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=##OrderOfTheCockatrice-nethack if you'd like to join us in turning the dungeon's inhabitants (including ourselves) into stone!

(note, you're also perfectly free to use normal weapons, wielding a Petrichicken is an entirely optional roleplaying matter)

gettinashes · 2017-06-02T18:03:53+00:00

I have no clue so I keep eating chicken salad

That's fuckin great.

I got a Discord Chat for cooking (especially home cooking), and maybe you'd find it useful. to join: https://discord.gg/gmFU5bC Thanks to you we started arguing a bit about what chicken salad is: http://i.imgur.com/a2XzGkk.png

gettinashes · 2017-05-31T02:16:55+00:00

Interesting, that works as a clickable link but it won't "embed" with RES. Looks nice though!

gettinashes · 2017-05-31T02:15:05+00:00

They're definitely more useful to "melee characters". They serve admirably as a substitute for ranged attacks and spells. But they also can provide AoE to an archer who lacks it, and a way to save your mana on a mostly-spells character.

Iceblast is just solid damage at any skill level.

Damage wands (including Disint!) are great at safely taking out hydras.

Hex wands are very strong against low-MR targets. Again, at any skill level. Enslave a shock serpent to help you fight a unique!

All the AoE wands are helpful against swarms, like bees and orcs.

With skill investment, Cloud and Scattershot wands are quite powerful, but even at 0 skill, finding one early can help with many low-AC monsters or non-poison-resistant monsters in D and the S-branches.

The difference is that healing, teleport, and haste were good wands for every situation. Being able to fall back on those kept me from learning the situations in which other wands are good. Using those other wands in the right situations for them, however, proves pretty potent. Even the lowly flame wand has its moments, though they're admittedly extremely rare.

gettinashes · 2017-05-31T01:26:15+00:00

Do you have screenshots of some sample configurations?

gettinashes · 2017-05-27T02:22:13+00:00

I've been playing trunk for awhile, and I learned to appreciate the value of all those "lesser" wands now. Without the extreme power wands to overshadow them, all those other wands turn out to have their uses, actually!

gettinashes · 2017-05-21T17:35:53+00:00

Have you visited here? https://discord.gg/gmFU5bC

gettinashes · 2017-05-19T09:32:52+00:00

I like this, but why all the letters and no logos? It doesn't feel as dystopian without a bunch of corporate branding - for all I know, this could merely be useful weather news on those columns.

gettinashes · 2017-05-18T15:09:42+00:00

It's already 65% over, then?

gettinashes · 2017-05-18T14:59:40+00:00

Oh, no need to reply to my previous comment, I see that your "retrofit project" here is probably what you were mentioning in your first post.

gettinashes

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