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This machine is now hosted on a still pretty much ancient Mac Mini, but newer than the old one — so it's more or less alive.
You may follow me here, but I might still shut this instance down at some point (or not? :marseyhmmm: ) , check out my alts. I'm currently most active on my snac2 instance (nosh0b10), and Librem Social… still exists 😏


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@p @SilverDeth
In NetHack skill is still a fuck, speaking from experience.
Even when you know all the ins and outs, your best chances are finding a ring of polymorph and polymorph control, turning into a Master Lich, then using a wand of digging to fall several levels down and levelling up there quickly while morphed. Then maybe finding a wand of wishing and… who knows :marseywink:
I got very close to the endgame this way once!
Otherwise you might spend weeks crawling carefully and than fuck up on something insignificant :marseyitsover:
@p @SilverDeth
Oh yes, pet dragons! :marseystars:
I believe silver ones were the best (or were they grey? :marseyhmmm: ) — their attack isn't as strong, but at least it can't damage goods and their own magic resistance made them more resilient than most other pets.

As for shopkeepers… TBH I never got any good things from it, but harassing them is so much fun! My personal record is killing three in a single playthrough… :marseybuff:
(I think I just got lucky)
@SilverDeth @p
> sorts of "Murder DM" games
That's the way I usually play games: kill everyone… or fuck everyone — if it's a Sims game. In the latter case, preferably at the same time — or in the shortest period of time :marseytroublemaker:

Plot quests? Fuck those! I'm going to reach maximum level killing rats in the very first location and them breeze through the rest of the game eviscerating whole towns. This is why even games like Elex, although they allow lots of freedom, are still a disappointment to me. In Elex you could even kill most characters responsible for side quests, which is entertaining, but the main plot ones are still invincible — I could hide behind the corner throwing rocks at them indefinitely, but it's obvious that this wasn't planned and you aren't supposed to withstand the slaughter. Main plot ones even calm down after being provoked and you can keep playing the game.
Towns in Elex are very entertaining places to get naughty, but eventually it still gets boring after you realise that guards just keep respawning indefinitely.

That's why NetHack is such a breath of fresh air — even back in the day in most graphical computer RPG games shops were… Well, shops — they are giving you some menu and you can buy and sell items, but in NetHack… "Oh, so you've arranged it in a way that I can buy items through usual game mechanics. Okay, let's try this…"— and then you realise that it IS allowed and that it's actually part of the game: you can dig a hole and the shopkeeper would fall through, and the game won't break! You can train pets to carry all the items out of the shop for you — there are whole strategies built around it.
Nowadays rogulike became a subgenre and elements of it even made inroads into more casual games, but back in the day there were games that would bread if you started doing bizarre shit, but there was also this — you could do whatever came to mind only to see that the game could handle all sorts of behaviour.
@grillchen @kaia @Ree
This is true and some things might never get directly or even indirectly confirmed, but Occam's razor principle tells us not to look for complex explanations when far simpler ones exist, and in this case a lot of pieces just fall into place.
They did get a divorce after all and many were wondering why — you don't get separated after so many years when it's just a fling, it has to be something more serious. Something like complete loss of trust, and this exactly what would happen if someone from my household started putting stuff in my food and got caught.
So I'd say this particular story seems far more realistic than the nanochip one 😆