When are typos deadly? Nethack. :: semicomplete.com

Mon, 14 May 2007

When are typos deadly? Nethack.

'e' and 'w' are tragically close. They'll kill you.

A typo caused the untimely demise of my latest nethack venture. I ate a cockatrice corpse, instead of wielding it, while on the astral plane, poised to completely decimate the current top score.


                       ----------
                      /          \
                     /    REST    \
                    /      IN      \
                   /     PEACE      \
                  /                  \
                  |     psionic      |
                  |       0 Au       |
                  |   petrified by   |
                  |     tasting      |
                  | cockatrice meat  |
                  |                  |
                  |       2007       |
                 *|     *  *  *      | *
        _________)/\\_//(\/(/\)/\//\/|_)_______


Farvel psionic the Valkyrie...

You turned to stone in The Astral Plane with 33241022 points,
and 0 pieces of gold, after 173216 moves.
You were level 30 with a maximum of 1371 hit points when you turned to stone.

This game was way fun. I had built a character that was unstoppable. See what I had in this screen scrape. I also had another bag of goodies that contained everything points-wise valuable from this large box I had been storing goodies in.

While I'm a little sad that the game ended this way, but whatever. Now I can go about my normal project work, since the hold on my life nethack has held on my after-work activities has been broken.

Comments: 3 (view comments)
Tags: antiproductivity
Permalink: /geekery/when-a-typo-kills-you
posted at: 03:24

3 responses to 'When are typos deadly? Nethack.'

Tim posted at Wed May 16 14:26:58 2007...

A random google search for "vim highlight" brought me to your site, and now I have two reasons to subscribe to your feed:

"geek. sysadmin. blogger." Just like me.

Nethack posts. You've inspired me to play even more nethack.

And now, a question:

Do you have a special program to get screen scrapes from your games, or do you copy/paste and manually edit it?

Jordan Sissel posted at Sun Dec 30 18:04:59 2007...

@Tim,

I just use screen(1) to hardcopy the screen to a file, and do this sequence:

1) hardcopy screen
2) cat hardcopy.0 >> nethack-valkyrie
3) hit spacebar in nethack
4) go to 1

Tim F. posted at Mon Jan 28 15:58:53 2008...

Just thought you'd like to know you still kicked the crap out of my best score ever

Damn that Priest of Ptah.

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