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Jordan Sissel
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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.

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