When are typos deadly? Nethack.
Posted Mon, 14 May 2007
'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.
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/ \
/ 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.
"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?