00:09 [hdf-us] [nh361] Zanza (Val Dwa Fem Law), 3293 points, T:5722, poisoned by an orcish arrow 00:09 -!- Tangles is now known as Beholder-AU 00:12 epi: monsters wish for humanbane if you're a human 00:14 -!- mode/#hardfought [+v Beholder-AU] by ChanServ 00:14 -!- mode/#hardfought [-o Beholder-AU] by ChanServ 00:14 -!- Beholder-AU is now known as Tangles 00:14 -!- mode/#hardfought [+o Tangles] by ChanServ 00:31 [hdf-us] [xnh] bouquet (Mon Hum Fem Cha), 9816 points, T:6720, killed by a tiger 00:31 Sokoban is my favorite place to die, apparently. 00:35 sokoban is nasty since you can't teleport yourself there 00:36 and you can't flee between the boulder 00:36 s 00:45 -!- elenmirie has joined #hardfought 00:45 -!- mode/#hardfought [+v elenmirie] by ChanServ 01:29 -!- hpardis has joined #hardfought 02:11 -!- raisse has joined #hardfought 02:11 -!- mode/#hardfought [+v raisse] by ChanServ 02:18 -!- Menche has joined #hardfought 02:41 -!- bug_sniper has quit [Ping timeout: 260 seconds] 02:46 -!- raisse has quit [Ping timeout: 245 seconds] 02:51 -!- raisse has joined #hardfought 02:51 -!- mode/#hardfought [+v raisse] by ChanServ 02:54 -!- ProzacElf has quit [Ping timeout: 260 seconds] 02:55 -!- ProzacElf has joined #hardfought 03:42 <@Winsalot> !tell jonadab so far gehennom looks really cool 03:42 Will do, @Winsalot! 03:53 yeah I like fourk gehennom too 04:19 <@Winsalot> But slex still has the best dungeons of doom 😃 04:20 <@Winsalot> maybe dnethack also has good dungeons of doom, but I haven't played it enough to really tell. 04:27 lol, this nymph didn't leave a corpse but she did read a scroll of create monster that created a lizard for me 04:49 -!- elenmirie has quit [Ping timeout: 248 seconds] 04:51 <@Winsalot> rip 05:02 -!- raisse has quit [Ping timeout: 276 seconds] 05:05 -!- ProzacElf has quit [Ping timeout: 260 seconds] 05:11 -!- loli has quit [Ping timeout: 245 seconds] 05:12 -!- loli has joined #hardfought 05:22 -!- raisse has joined #hardfought 05:22 -!- mode/#hardfought [+v raisse] by ChanServ 05:22 -!- loli has quit [Quit: WeeChat 2.1] 05:57 <@Winsalot> ANyone knows how many levels of gehennpom I can expect in Fourk? Cos third lvl after valley of the dead already had fake wizard's tower 06:18 -!- hpardis has quit [Quit: Leaving] 06:22 -!- LarienTelrunya has joined #hardfought 06:27 !tell Lymia the reason why you don't have a colored hitpoint bar in slex is because you didn't set statuscolors! here, feel free to copy and paste from my rcfile: https://eu.hardfought.org/userdata/A/AmyBSOD/slex/AmyBSOD.slexrc :) 06:27 Will do, LarienTelrunya! 06:34 -!- raisse has quit [Ping timeout: 248 seconds] 06:47 -!- raisse has joined #hardfought 06:47 -!- mode/#hardfought [+v raisse] by ChanServ 06:48 <@Winsalot> LarienTelrunya: please remove +3 weapon requirement to hit from slex. 06:48 Winsalot: the next version makes it so that if your gloves are +3, unarmed/martial arts will be able to hit them ;) 06:48 also lol requesting feature removals from slex :P 06:50 <@Winsalot> That is not a feature. Its cancer 😃 06:50 lol 06:50 be glad it's not like regular SLASH'EM, where those would be completely impossible to hit! in slex, you will at least have a 1 in 3 chance to hit the monster anyway ;) 06:52 argh that was silly 06:52 I thought I was opening a door with a key 06:52 *and* typoed 'y' for 'h' 06:55 <@Winsalot> You shouldn't play Vanilla 07:00 I prefer taking the consequences of my stupidity, thank you 07:00 don't want my hands held 07:01 by (splendid German word alert) Besserwisser 07:03 y and h are quite wide apart. typo by brain fart? 07:03 h is directly under y on my keyboard 07:03 -!- jonathanhanes has quit [Ping timeout: 264 seconds] 07:04 bhaak: on my keyboard they're also far apart, but some wierdo keyboards have y and z exchanged :P 07:04 don't the dutch also have a qwertz keyboard? 07:04 nope 07:04 okay then 07:04 it's especially "fun" in games that don't allow you to remap keys and are optimized for QWERTY keyboards *headdesk* 07:04 also I don't have a Dutch keyboard but US-International 07:04 -!- jonathanhanes has joined #hardfought 07:05 LarienTelrunya: yeah. talk about those weird anglophones, heh 07:05 raisse: I have, too. but that doesn't prevent me from putting the y where God intended it to be :-) 07:06 95% of what I type is English and I'd hate having the y in a place where I'd have to hit it with my left little finger 07:07 far enough. I'm too stubborn to change my muscle memory from what I learned 30 years ago :) 07:08 this reminds me... i need to setup a keymap for 1.3d so i can use my nummber pad for movement keys 07:08 *number 07:08 K2: putty has a nethack mode 07:09 yeah, i never enable it though. I may have to make a special profile just for 1.3d heh 07:12 @Winsalot Fourk Gehennom is about the same size as vanilla Gehennom. 07:12 jonadab: Message from @Winsalot at 2018-05-23 03:42 EDT: so far gehennom looks really cool 07:13 The total depth of the game is about 3-5 levels deeper, but that's due to the Castle being 3-5 levels deeper. 07:14 Also, if you found a fake wizard tower three levels below the valley, it's a random decoy, not the _real_ fake tower. 07:14 i.e., it won't have the portal to the real tower. 07:15 but in vanilla the decoy tower is near the bottom of gehennom, like the real fake tower 07:16 usually on consecutive levels 07:16 LarienTelrunya: EPI: create a keymap that's optimized around the assumption of a dvorak keyboard. Hardcode it, and don't let the user rebind keys. 07:16 raisse: Yes, Fourk has that one too. 07:16 jonadab: omg that would suck :P 07:16 so there are *more* fake fake towers? 07:16 But random ones can potentially also pop up elsewhere. 07:16 Sometimes. 07:16 This is a recent change. 07:20 The tin opens like magic! It smells like floating eyes. Eat it? [yn] (n) 07:20 yes!! 07:23 LarienTelrunya: Find a piece of software that supports several keyboard layouts but doesn't let you arbitrarily rebind keys, you just pick the layout you want from a list. Try to convince the developers that you need support for a linotype layout. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1b/ClavierLinotype_20041006-163300.jpg 07:24 ...what the hell is that, no one can remember the position of those keys :P 07:24 It's arranged according to frequency of use in English text. 07:25 etaoin shrdlu 07:25 I don't think they ever made electronic/computer keyboards with that layout. 07:26 But it was nearly universal for hot metal typesetting systems, back in the day. 07:27 the laptop I'm typing this on has detachable keys, so you can have any layout you want :) 07:28 I used to use an Avant Stellar keyboard, which was fully remappable and have exchangeable keytops, yeah. 07:28 <@kritixilithos> a vim'ers paradise 07:29 <[Demo]> heh 07:29 If they didn't cost so much, I'd get the blank-tops Das Keyboard and just remap it in software. 07:29 (I mean, it's not THAT expensive... but it's basically just a bog standard keyboard, so it's not really worth it to me.) 07:43 [hdf-us] [nh361] hypnotist (Sam Hum Fem Law) wished for "the blessed greased fixed +3 mitre of holiness", on T:39081 07:56 -!- elenmirie has joined #hardfought 07:56 -!- mode/#hardfought [+v elenmirie] by ChanServ 07:58 [hdf-us] [nh361] hypnotist (Sam Hum Fem Law) killed Ashikaga Takauji, on T:40533 07:58 [hdf-us] [nh361] hypnotist (Sam Hum Fem Law) acquired the Bell of Opening, on T:40537 08:07 [hdf-us] [nh361] hypnotist (Sam Hum Fem Law) wished for "the blessed greased fixed historic +3 gauntlets of power", on T:40849 08:07 [hdf-us] [slex] Lymia (Mah Wis Mal Cha), 26696 points, T:6596, killed by a monster (odorous girl), while sleeping 08:15 identified my amulet :-) 08:16 :) 08:17 The poison was deadly... 08:20 -!- noty has quit [Quit: WeeChat 2.0.1] 08:23 Good thing the nethack community doesn't need to remember "etaoin shrdlu" because we have a scroll for it :P 08:37 hmm im having fun splitting stacks of bjects 08:52 Ideas on the balance of forced illiteracy of cavemen? 08:52 What scrolls are fundamental to gameplay? 08:53 enchant foo, IMHO 08:53 Identify, enchants, and something else? 08:53 maybe also charging 08:53 thank god for shopkeeper services 08:53 i guess it's just really enchant foo 09:01 [hdf-us] [fh] Qi (krm26) (Arc Hum Fem Law), 10741 points, T:220, killed by a falling rock 09:06 .... wow 09:06 Lymia: Message from LarienTelrunya at 2018-05-23 06:27 EDT: the reason why you don't have a colored hitpoint bar in slex is because you didn't set statuscolors! here, feel free to copy and paste from my rcfile: https://eu.hardfought.org/userdata/A/AmyBSOD/slex/AmyBSOD.slexrc :) 09:06 So. 09:07 I can displace an acid sphere into a shopkeep door, and that destroys it. 09:07 So I can enter the shop 09:07 huh, really? 09:07 After which, the shopkeep has no objections to me being invisible. even though I move diagonally past him 09:10 the game sure likes to throw tons of lembas at me when I'm playing orcs 09:11 yep 09:11 The shopkeep doesn't consider it destruction of property 09:11 :D 09:13 nice 09:13 but do the doors reappear? 09:16 [hdf-us] [fh] Qi (krm26) (Arc Hum Fem Law), 28535 points, T:964, killed by a gnome lord 09:19 yeah 09:19 heh, this floating eye didn't drop a corpse but dropped a magic marker instead... I'll take it 09:22 -!- mode/Beholder [+Zi] by Beholder 09:22 -!- cherryh.freenode.net changed the topic on #hardfought to: Welcome to Hardfought - https://www.hardfought.org/ - public irc logs available on website ¤ Public NetHack server - ssh nethack@hardfought.org or nethack@eu.hardfought.org ¤ NetHack 1.3d... yup, that's right. Version 1.3d 09:22 -!- mode/#hardfought [+v Beholder] by ChanServ 09:22 !ping 09:22 Tangles: Pong! 09:23 [hdf-us] [xnh] jonadab (Bar Orc Mal Cha) killed Baalzebub, on T:37284 09:28 -!- Grasshopper has joined #hardfought 09:28 -!- mode/#hardfought [+v Grasshopper] by ChanServ 09:28 !who 09:28 Tangles: [hdf-us] Lymia [slex] krm26 [fh] aosdict [xnh] jonadab [xnh] 09:28 Tangles: [hdf-eu] Mandevil [nh361] 09:30 -!- Grassy has quit [Ping timeout: 260 seconds] 09:34 -!- mode/Beholder [+Zi] by Beholder 09:34 -!- tolkien.freenode.net changed the topic on #hardfought to: Welcome to Hardfought - https://www.hardfought.org/ - public irc logs available on website ¤ Public NetHack server - ssh nethack@hardfought.org or nethack@eu.hardfought.org ¤ NetHack 1.3d... yup, that's right. Version 1.3d 09:34 -!- mode/#hardfought [+v Beholder] by ChanServ 09:35 first mines level, "You sense a faint wave of psychic energy." greaaaaaat 09:39 -!- raisse has quit [Ping timeout: 245 seconds] 09:41 [hdf-us] [xnh] jonadab (Bar Orc Mal Cha) killed Asmodeus, on T:37946 09:43 ooh, bouquet's ghost 09:44 looks like you had some pretty nice stuff bouquet 09:44 healer bones, from my guess 09:44 no, monk 09:45 oh this is the one where you asked about cloth light armor :P 09:51 [hdf-us] [xnh] jonadab (Bar Orc Mal Cha) wished for "very historic thoroughly holy marker of magic", on T:38253 09:51 [hdf-us] [xnh] jonadab (Bar Orc Mal Cha) performed his first genocide (class L), on T:38254 09:52 [hdf-us] [xnh] jonadab (Bar Orc Mal Cha) genocided class h, on T:38258 10:05 hm I am being offered 225 zorkmids for a ring... no ring should go that high 10:05 and 40 for another ring... ditto 10:05 these were from bones, elenmirie does it sound like the bug you mentioned? 10:05 LarienTelrunya, how does kicking a stack work? 10:05 Which item are you kicking 10:06 Lymia: you try to kick the topmost item 10:06 but those could be unstacked loadstones, huh 10:06 :c 10:06 well, the top stack is certainly loadstones; the other may be a loadstone with a different enchantment, or it might be a luckstone 10:07 Which layout is this anyway? I'm surprised the stones were just out in the open carried by a monster 10:08 mimic of the mines; the monster in question was a phasing one, so it might have picked up the luck/loadstones 10:09 !who 10:09 Tangles: [hdf-us] Lymia [slex] krm26 [fh] mightyquinn [sp] Eleven [nh361] aosdict [xnh] 10:09 Tangles: [hdf-eu] Mandevil [nh361] 10:09 Tangles: [hdf-au] Tangles [nh361] 10:09 shhh! not yet Beholder! 10:11 !who 10:11 Tangles: [hdf-us] Lymia [slex] krm26 [fh] mightyquinn [sp] cxxr [dnh] Eleven [nh361] aosdict [xnh] 10:11 Tangles: [hdf-eu] Mandevil [nh361] Grasshopper [nh361] 10:11 Tangles: [hdf-au] Tangles [nh361] 10:11 yay fleecy colors ♥ 10:12 ...and with that, hdf-au (au.hardfought.org) is live! 10:12 wooooo! 10:12 oh 10:12 There's only one loadstone on this level 10:12 so 10:12 Bottom one is probably luckstone?? 10:13 well, there could theoretically be randomly generated loadstones, but chances are the bottom one is luck 10:17 elenmirie: found the cause of your weird bones item sell price, fixing 10:17 K2: this is likely a bug in grunthack too 10:18 actually wait, no, it fixed that and I missed it 10:19 -!- Tangles changed the topic on #hardfought to: Welcome to Hardfought - https://www.hardfought.org/ - public irc logs available on website ¤ Public NetHack server - ssh nethack@hardfought.org, nethack@eu.hardfought.org server - ssh nethack@hardfought.org, nethack@eu.hardfought.org or nethack@au.hardfought.org ¤ New server in Sydney, AU - one step closer to world domination :) 10:20 aosdict: I fixed that bug in grunthack (or a very similar one) a little while ago. 10:21 Ah, so I have you to thank :) 10:21 -!- [Demo] has quit [Remote host closed the connection] 10:22 -!- [Demo] has joined #hardfought 10:22 I wonder if I can find the commit... 10:22 nah, already fixed it 10:26 [hdf-us] [fh] Qi (krm26) (Arc Hum Fem Law), 39864 points, T:4132, killed by a giant mimic 10:28 What is the level below mines end in slex anyway 10:28 that's Ruggo's level; killing Ruggo gives a trophy in junethack 10:29 gotta turn off my PC now though because we have a thunderstorm; I'll be back later 10:29 Where is Ruggo 10:29 he's a purple G 10:29 -!- LarienTelrunya has quit [Quit: Page closed] 10:29 I've seen nothing but o here :( 10:31 K2: pushed fixes, the bones ring/wand thing won't be fixed in current games but it will be for all future loads of bones levels 10:31 !whereis tangles 10:31 Tangles: [hdf-us] Tangles [fh]: (Wiz Orc Mal Cha) T:130 The Dungeons of Doom level: 1 10:32 Tangles: [hdf-au] Tangles [nh361]: (Kni Hum Mal Law) T:1 The Dungeons of Doom level: 1 10:32 ugh that is wrong. 10:33 well it's half-right. 10:40 dgl doesnt unlink whereis files reliably 10:41 hit or miss 10:41 yay AU server is live! 10:41 !whereis Lymia 10:41 Lymia: [hdf-us] Lymia [slex]: (Mah Wis Fem Cha) T:8089 The Gnomish Mines level: 9 10:45 :/ 10:47 ... so. 10:47 In variants with the * sphere spells 10:47 How do you actually manage 10 pets everywhere leftover after fights 10:55 !pom 10:55 PavelB: The moon is at first quarter; full moon in 6 days. 10:58 K2: What's the url for the AU server? 10:58 au.hardfought.org 11:10 !tell Grasshopper try ssh nethack@au.hardfought.org when you play next, ping it, see if that's any better for you :P 11:10 Will do, K2! 11:10 what the heck was a lich doing in Mines:12 11:11 [hdf-us] [nh361] Tangles (Rog Hum Fem Cha) killed the Wizard of Yendor, on T:35249 11:15 [hdf-us] [nh361] Tangles (Rog Hum Fem Cha) killed the Wizard of Yendor, on T:35323 11:29 standing on a polymorph trap of course 11:34 [hdf-us] [nh361] hypnotist (Sam Hum Fem Law) wished for "2 blessed greased fixed historic scrolls of charging", on T:43467 11:38 Life Saving amulet :D 11:42 ohno 11:42 i might need it to survive this room 11:47 aosdict: time for an xnh update? 11:47 yes 11:47 it affects a materials bug in loading bones files and also improves lookups 11:48 mmmk 11:48 * aosdict is in bugfix-only mode till after jnh 11:49 good deal 11:49 [hdf-us] [nh361] hypnotist (Sam Hum Fem Law) killed Medusa, on T:45269 11:49 typically variant authors whose games are part of junethack implement a feature freeze about a couple weeks out 11:49 bug fixes only until end of tourney 11:50 [hdf-us] [slex] ttc1401 (Bar Ang Mal Law) killed the ghost of Lymia, the former Preparing for Exams, on T:1367 11:51 xNetHack updated (us and eu and au) 11:51 [hdf-us] [nh361] Tangles (Rog Hum Fem Cha) killed the Wizard of Yendor, on T:35855 11:51 aosdict: yours is the first variant to get the tri-server update announcement 11:52 \o/ 11:56 soon to be (us and eu and au and ru and jp and sa) 11:57 i want antarctica 11:59 dtype: tell alexa to tell aws to make an instance hub there 12:01 <@Winsalot> !whereis winsalot 12:01 @Winsalot: [hdf-us] winsalot is not currently playing on this server. 12:01 @Winsalot: [hdf-eu] winsalot [4k]: (Tou Scu Mal Neu) T:25882 Gehennom level: 41 12:02 I wonder if anyone's said "OK Google, tell Alexa..." 12:02 !tell antigulp why are cerastes sessile? was that intended? 12:02 Will do, hothraxxa! 12:03 !tell anitgulp i do not see shimmering dragons displaced 12:03 Will do, hothraxxa! 12:04 K2: sure thing 12:06 \o/ 12:09 [hdf-us] [nh361] Eleven (Pri Hum Fem Neu) performed her first genocide (class L), on T:25340 12:09 gotta keep the ping times of all those hardfought players at the south pole research station down 12:12 <@Winsalot> Lol, just chased pussy Orcus for over 4 floors 12:15 aosdict: you KNOW they play 12:15 [hdf-us] [nh361] Eleven (Pri Hum Fem Neu) genocided class h, on T:25356 12:17 [hdf-us] [xnh] aosdict (Rog Orc Fem Cha) acquired the luckstone from Mines' End, on T:8096 12:23 -!- bug_sniper has joined #hardfought 12:23 ha! was about to drop the luckstone on the altar, checked the clock to make sure it wouldn't cause a timeout... T:3599 12:24 -!- bug_sniper has quit [Client Quit] 12:25 -!- bug_sniper has joined #hardfought 12:29 Timeout? 12:31 -!- bug_sniper has quit [Ping timeout: 245 seconds] 12:31 luck timeout happens every turns % 600 12:32 [hdf-us] [xnh] aosdict (Rog Orc Fem Cha) had Grimtooth bestowed upon her by Kos, on T:9272 12:32 booo 12:33 eh it's not that bad I guess 12:36 It really should be (function_of_gameseed() + turncount) % 600. 12:36 whats 'function_of_gameseed' ? 12:36 A function of the game seed. 12:36 presumably a hash function 12:36 Which the player does not know until after the game completes. 12:37 i see 12:37 you think so? 12:37 So then to be safe you'd have to wait 600 turns, regardless of the current turncount when it happens. 12:38 actually that is the kind of expert knowledge i like in nethack 12:38 This could mean that roles which start with temporary luck adjustments (convict I think?) might get lucky 12:38 stenno: It's a pointless spoiler tax. 12:38 no beginner will actually know or care about the luck timeout mod 12:40 if you want to, you could make the timeout like the exercise counter 12:40 that'd probably be a bit too evil though 12:40 wow, Kos didn't even bother to bless his holy gift of grimtooth 12:41 almost API 12:41 EPI 12:41 Evil Programming Interface? :D 12:42 is that kos? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qos_(deity) 12:42 :| 12:42 muscle memory i guess :P 12:42 -!- raisse has joined #hardfought 12:42 -!- mode/#hardfought [+v raisse] by ChanServ 12:43 man the hebraeic mysticism is so cool imo 12:43 gods and demons 12:43 god* 12:43 and kaballah 12:44 [hdf-us] [spl] hothraxxa (Hea Gno Mal Neu) became Hermes' Envoy of Balance, on T:40052 12:44 a - a blessed rustproof long sword named Vorpal Blade 12:44 * stenno snickers 12:44 watch it, pal! i'll snee you 12:46 D: 12:46 snee ya later 12:47 apparantly posting yafap on reddit yields 60 upvotes nowadays 12:48 !who 12:48 K2: [hdf-us] Lymia [slex] hothraxxa [spl] sk1j [fh] mightyquinn [sp] hypnotist [nh361] aosdict [xnh] 12:48 K2: [hdf-eu] Raisse [nh361] 12:48 K2: [hdf-au] No current players 12:49 stenno: 'yet another fap?' 12:49 :| 12:49 ;) 12:49 yet another first ascension post 12:49 heh 12:49 so lewd D: 12:49 at least there was no astral splooge 12:49 you have no idea 12:49 oh, I thought the F stood for something else 12:50 [hdf-us] [fh] Moo (sk1j) (Cav Dwa Fem Law), 44242 points, T:5909, killed by an orc shaman's force bolt 12:52 stenno: How about this: each time (moves % 300) == 0, there's a 50% chance of one point of luck timing out? 12:52 jonadab: sounds fair 12:52 Or, each time (moves % 200) == 0, a 1/3 chance. 12:52 or a 1/600 chance every move 12:52 or 12:52 that 12:52 s/move/turn 12:52 :P 12:53 [hdf-us] [sp] mightyquinn (Tou Hum Mal Neu), 11780 points, T:12939, killed by a fire ant 12:53 Or, it's a (20 + luck) in 20,000 chance. 12:53 -!- raisse has quit [Quit: Suddenly, Raisse disappears out of sight.] 12:54 hmm how did unnethack handle that again 12:54 i think in unnethack your timeout rate scales with the luck you have 12:54 so 13 Luck will timeout faster to 12 as 1 will to 0 12:55 (and yes, iirc luckstone doesn't prevent timeout, just slows it down) 12:55 That's _approximately_ what (20 + luck) in 20000 does. 12:55 yeah 12:55 -!- raisse has joined #hardfought 12:55 -!- mode/#hardfought [+v raisse] by ChanServ 12:55 lets see 12:55 Though really it should be 13 + luck in about 8000. 12:55 quick math 12:56 * aosdict misreads "rock mole corpse" as "rock star corpse" 12:56 (Trimming the constant factor makes the slowest case, when your luck is badly negative, really slow.) 13:09 should be 13 + abs(luck) imo 13:10 thats how i understood it in the first place 13:13 bah, due to my bandaged finger which I cut yesterday I messed up soko 13:16 it's a poor workman who blames his tools 13:22 hothraxxa: reminds me of the photography quote that went something like "Most famous photos were taken with a camera less advanced than yours." 13:23 truer than ever, that one 13:23 huawei just announced a phone with a 40mp camera :0 13:29 yeah gimme better glass, not more pixels 13:29 but people always like pixels 13:29 people are easily sucked in 13:30 another quote is something like..... amateurs worry about their camera. professionals worry about their lens. masters worry about the available light. 13:30 the huawei has leica lenses, i think 13:31 i know my current huawei phone does 13:31 i wonder what ansel adams would have made of photoshop 13:32 when you see professional photos taken with 6MP cameras from 2005 that kick your butt, you'll maybe stop complaining about your camera. heh 13:32 or worse, pro photographers that take *stunning* stuff with iphone 4 cameras and the like 13:33 i'd say at least 33% of the photos in our book were taken with a canon s45 4mp camera 13:35 -!- Grassy has joined #hardfought 13:35 -!- mode/#hardfought [+v Grassy] by ChanServ 13:35 -!- raisse has quit [Read error: Connection reset by peer] 13:35 -!- raisse has joined #hardfought 13:35 -!- mode/#hardfought [+v raisse] by ChanServ 13:38 -!- Grasshopper has quit [Ping timeout: 245 seconds] 13:41 <@Winsalot> Damn, Fourk's Dispater's lair is nasty 13:50 -!- ProzacElf has joined #hardfought 14:01 <@Winsalot> Ok, this is not funny 14:01 https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/400474774440247317/448908375980245002/fourk_wtf_is_this.png 14:02 it looks like you might be fucked 14:02 <@Winsalot> Im fine 14:02 <@Winsalot> I have conflict 14:02 have conflict? 14:02 ahahah 14:02 proceed good sir 14:02 <@Winsalot> Also, wanna guess who will kill most of dudes in there? 14:02 the c 14:02 <@Winsalot> yeah 14:03 <@Winsalot> Already had similar situation in fq, but there were less monsters 14:04 itym fewer, but good luck anyway 14:05 <@Winsalot> thats how the whole level looks like 14:05 https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/400474774440247317/448909458769182720/fourk_wtf_is_this2.png 14:06 party at winny's! 14:07 <@Winsalot> 10x28 area filled with (to be) dead dudes 14:07 not really, demons don't leave corpses 14:07 they'll be statues 14:12 :D 14:12 harty hard and hack 14:12 party 14:13 [hdf-us] [dnh] Flan99 (Ana Dwa Fem Cha), 106 points, T:510, killed by Ms. Ennistymon, the shopkeeper 14:18 <@Winsalot> ffs, suddenly all monsters remembered how to use wands of digging 14:22 -!- LarienTelrunya has joined #hardfought 14:25 -!- theRaisse has joined #hardfought 14:26 -!- raisse has quit [Ping timeout: 256 seconds] 14:30 -!- theRaisse is now known as raisse 14:30 -!- mode/#hardfought [+v raisse] by ChanServ 14:36 [hdf-us] [nh361] knavery (Rog Orc Fem Cha), 56763 points, T:22971, killed by a rock troll 14:38 @Winsalot That room is likely to contain some fairly ridiculous loot, FWIW. 14:39 At depth 45, ... yeah, could be pretty good. 14:39 does fourk have leveled items? i.e. potions of gain level and scrolls of genocide won't appear on early floors? 14:40 Not yet. 14:40 That's a direction I might want to go, however. 14:42 Incidentally, @Winsalot, my working name for that feature is "challenge room". 14:42 Though I'm not sure how much of a challenge it actually is, at that stage of the game. 14:42 It may need some additional work in that regard. 14:42 I always call such rooms "killer rooms" :D 14:43 "What is this place?" "This place? It's YOUR TOMB!" 14:47 [hdf-us] [nh361] spork (Bar Orc Mal Cha), 14287 points, T:9498, quit 14:50 Is the only amulet given in slex Sokoban reflection? 14:52 there are two fake sokoban "final" levels where you get an amulet of strangulation or blindness, respectively, but if you get a prize on a real final level and that prize is an amulet, it will always be reflection 14:52 fff 14:52 I already have reflection from an implant 14:55 Maybe you will get the bag of holding. 14:56 One never knows. 14:56 jonadab: nah, she already completed soko and got an amulet 14:56 still good to have an alternate source of reflection though 14:58 EPI: new dungeon feature, mirror pool. If you cross it while you have reflection and are not blind, you stare into infinity and are paralyzed in place for 50d10 turns. 14:58 :D 15:06 What is Grund's Stronghold? 15:06 a one-level branch with Grund the Orc King, a boss who gives a trophy in junethack when killed 15:06 it also has a lot of orcs and soldiers with wands 15:06 yeah, I'm going elsewhere :D 15:06 oh, and the area in front of the drawbridge is full of traps 15:08 -!- tacco| has joined #hardfought 15:09 This is a branch, right? 15:09 Not something in the middle of the dungeon branch 15:09 what is a branch? Grund's Stronghold? yes 15:11 so wheres the other down stairs :( 15:12 somewhere in the black part of the map 15:12 you apparently have clairvoyance so finding it should be easy :) 15:14 What skill is stiletto? 15:14 knife 15:14 gah 15:15 And Marija disappeared to who-knows-where on town. 15:15 ... actually 15:15 I should go look somewhere 15:15 slex increases the amount of time you have until off-level pets go feral, especially if the pet was well fed before you got separated from it 15:16 in vanilla, you'd have a hard limit of about 3000 turns no matter how many troll and dragon corpses the pet has eaten :( 15:16 I've been to Grund's once, in vanilla Slash'EM. 15:16 DIdn't stick around long. 15:17 It's not really a safe place to be when you first find it. 15:17 Which is true of a lot of Slash'EM's one-level branches. 15:17 It's also not very useful to go there if you don't have a way to get past the drawbridge and moat, because most of the good items are sealed behind :D 15:17 Water walking and #monster? :D 15:18 Lymia: yeah you'd be able to get in if you wanted 15:18 there's also iron bars, walking through them lets you bypass the drawbridge 15:18 It's probably also a better approach 15:18 I don't know how the map looks though 15:19 https://nethackwiki.com/wiki/Grund%27s_Stronghold 15:23 -!- AntiGulp has joined #hardfought 15:23 Pet titan hype 15:23 AntiGulp: Message from K2 at 2018-05-22 13:52 EDT: don't phase out the void, I haven't tried it yet ;) 15:23 AntiGulp: Message from aosdict at 2018-05-22 14:40 EDT: Bug in monster artiwishing code: mk_artifact can sometimes return NULL if all the valid artis have been created; the monster wish for artifact code doesn't check that. 15:23 AntiGulp: Message from hothraxxa at 2018-05-23 12:02 EDT: why are cerastes sessile? was that intended? 15:24 oh fff 15:24 I stepped on that nasty trap again 15:24 what does it do? 15:24 AC 15:24 oh, the nakedness trap 15:24 I've played through Gehennom with that active once, but I was an archer so it was kinda okay 15:25 hm. there was supposed to be another message for antigulp, namely: shimmering dragons don't appear displaced to me 15:25 i just killed one 15:25 hothraxxa: Ah, yes. I haven't implemented monster displacement yet, I should not have un-deferred them. Enjoy the easy dragons! 15:26 easy, hmph 15:26 *easier 15:26 There are other 3.x variants that implement monster displacement - should look at those 15:26 Yeah, almost every variant does it differently at this point 15:26 i should be able to eat the corpse and get displacement resistance 15:27 pfft 15:27 the silver and grey dragons at the castle both dropped scales 15:27 lol 15:28 oh wow, found a horse that generated with a saddle 15:28 Acid Sphere seems quiitte good, at least, on MP efficiency 15:28 yesssss sokobag 15:28 succubus in sokoban why not 15:28 [hdf-us] [xnh] aosdict (Rog Orc Fem Cha) completed Sokoban, on T:13413 15:29 and it came with a free prize of 2 non-glass gems inside 15:31 nvm 15:31 uh 15:31 that's a difficulty 75 demon up there 15:31 woah 15:31 hostile? 15:31 yes 15:31 oh, I guess the acid spheres would anger a peaceful one anyway 15:32 get off the level, fast!!! 15:32 I'll go off it after quest and when the nasty trap wears off 15:34 .. or controlled levelport? 15:34 Since I do get teleport control at 15 15:34 But how to levelport :D 15:34 cursed/confused scroll of teleportation 15:34 beware: when using the confused method, teleport control can randomly fail due to confusion 15:36 [hdf-us] [nh361] hypnotist (Sam Hum Fem Law) entered Gehennom, on T:47755 15:37 d - an uncursed wand of wishing (0:3) 15:37 nice! 15:38 finally, telepathy 15:38 only took 14k turns 15:38 [hdf-us] [spl] hothraxxa (Hea Gno Mal Neu) made his first artifact wish - "blessed fixed greased historic eye of the aethiopica", on T:41601 15:39 didn't get it :( 15:39 hrm 15:39 Is there a temporary way to remove instrinsic MR in slex? 15:39 oh lovely a magma elemental, just what I need 15:40 Lymia: theoretically yes, but good luck finding one (the vulnerability trap/monster attack can sometimes do it, but it can also deactivate other properties instead) 15:40 [hdf-us] [nh361] munterplant (Val Hum Fem Law) entered Gehennom, on T:23556 15:40 if you were an angel, you could temporarily deactivate it (and all other positive intrinsics) by getting negative alignment 15:40 .. oh huh 15:42 I guess with reflection and shock resistance I can attempt to convert this temple? Probably not worth it 15:42 what, you're gonna kill the priest? 15:42 I'd much rather keep the priest so you can buy protection 15:43 but yeah, with your equipment you could probably take him on if you wanted ("probably" because priests hit fairly hard in melee) 15:43 AntiGulp: Can you use lava pools the same way as furnaces, assuming you have fireproof water walking or can otherwise tolerate magma? 15:43 aosdict: no 15:43 wait wait, how do you use furnaces? i keep forgetting to ask 15:44 i tried dipping into one and nothing 15:44 They're fairly underdeveloped atm 15:44 Dipping into it can: Fireproof, bless, blow up the furnace, burn up the item 15:44 I think? 15:44 -!- noty has joined #hardfought 15:44 oh. i didn't read the code, that was before i started code diving 15:45 what happens if you blow it up? 15:45 Let me check because I don't want to get this wrong and get you killed 15:46 Let's see... calls function blowupfurnace()... 15:46 yes i just read that 15:47 oh i leave furnaces alone 15:47 only breaking a furnace seems to create lava 15:47 blowupfurnace just does a fiery explosion 15:47 otoh if there are potential benefits... 15:47 Ok so the worst thing that can happen with dipping is a fiery explosion. If for some reason you're trying to drink lava out of a furnace, it can melt into a pool of lava. 15:47 Gotta add that to the wiki 15:48 not sure why i'd want to create a lava pool 15:48 I like the ability to erodeproof or bless stuff without needing the usual methods, but I think I might just transfer those effects to fountains. 15:49 fair enough 15:49 Shotouts to the giant mimic which is wrecking sokoban for me right now. Sigh. 15:50 What dlvls are quest again? 15:50 15-49 15:51 ah 15:51 Much deeper 15:52 Can I re-tame my pet titan if it became peaceful? I'm guessing no 15:53 sure 15:53 With food? 15:53 it'll be hard and probably require lots of attempts, but you can. 15:53 no, magic taming only 15:53 throwing food would probably anger it 15:53 Welp, at least it's not hostile 15:54 ... now 15:54 Do i want to murder a shopkeep 15:54 does he have useful services? if not, he's probably disposable 15:56 identify, huh 15:56 the cost for the enchant armor service depends on the enchantment value of the target item; getting a +0 to +1 or +2 is probably affordable, but higher enchantments are too expensive 16:03 That's quite a dlvl 16:03 I'll be afk for a while now because I have to do the dishes 16:03 yeah that purple room is probably a trouble zone, which spawns some rather dangerous monsters 16:04 nice, random +5 silver darts 16:07 Nooooo my tame silver golem is trying to take on the peaceful titan 16:09 [hdf-us] [nh361] hypnotist (Sam Hum Fem Law) killed Juiblex, on T:50290 16:09 <@Winsalot> jonadab: the only loot I care about is potions of gain level (and identify scrolls ofc). Otherwise I dont even really know what to wish for. 16:09 <@Winsalot> And I still have about 2 spare wishes 16:09 <@Winsalot> Guess magic markers are always good 16:11 Apparently slex allows horrid cheese 16:11 Petkeeping skill lets you take pets from a 3 radius range downstairs 16:11 This includes a whole army of acid spheres 16:11 <@Winsalot> Nice 16:11 That's awesome 16:11 Lymia: Thus saving you some moderately annoying shuffling, not _very_ cheese 16:12 <@Winsalot> Roleplay as an entire army 16:14 <@Winsalot> YANI: make double trouble castable spell- creates a tame copy of your character. For balance reasons make it not drop anything upon death and make items stolen from it vanish. Or maybe not. What's the worst that could happen? One more wand of wishing? 16:14 I think FIQHack does this 16:14 does what 16:14 ah 16:14 no 16:15 double trouble works like vanilla 16:15 but only Rodney can cast it 16:15 <@Winsalot> I think there should be double-trouble scrolls. Then it would allow me to roleplay as an army 😃 16:16 @Winsalot see splicehack's scroll of cloning 16:17 Scroll of cloning is the source of like 50% of my coding headaches. I keep finding new ways to cheese it. Turns out duplicating things is pretty good 16:20 Pinkbeast, up stair, cast acid sphere, like, 30 times in safety, bring down 24 acid spheres to blow things up, repeat. 16:20 [hdf-us] [spl] hothraxxa (Hea Gno Mal Neu) killed the Cyclops, on T:42104 16:20 [hdf-us] [nh361] Eleven (Pri Hum Fem Neu), 223966 points, T:30028, petrified by Medusa 16:20 [hdf-us] [spl] hothraxxa (Hea Gno Mal Neu) acquired the Bell of Opening, on T:42108 16:21 :O 16:22 man, giants are shitty jewellers. they all fall for the shiny glass 16:22 including this here cyclops feller 16:22 ooh silver javelin 16:23 "You see here a pair of plastic combat boots (180 zorkmids)." 16:23 * aosdict checks material price table 16:24 hm multiiplied by 2 16:24 "The draugr throws a cream pie!" I feel like I'm in skyrim 16:25 haha the plastic boots are water walking 16:25 perfect 16:26 Ooh I just got a program in disorder. I had an umber hulk pet who confused a priest, and the priest just vanished with a mon not there error. 16:26 Wait, now he's back 16:26 huh 16:26 Wait no my silver golem is warping in and out of existence what is even happening 16:29 what the heck 16:29 this is the fourth magic marker in this game 16:29 The tin opens like magic! It smells like Cyclops. 16:29 yum! 16:29 bah. gave me nothing 16:32 well one good thing to be said about Grimtooth, it sure does let me know when there are elves about 16:33 Woah, just got an easter egg for looting while confused. Never knew that existed. 16:46 -!- raisse has quit [Ping timeout: 240 seconds] 16:48 -!- AntiGulp has quit [Quit: *poof*] 16:51 -!- rld has quit [Remote host closed the connection] 16:52 -!- raisse has joined #hardfought 16:52 -!- mode/#hardfought [+v raisse] by ChanServ 16:52 -!- rld has joined #hardfought 16:52 -!- mode/#hardfought [+v rld] by ChanServ 16:53 -!- rld has quit [Remote host closed the connection] 16:54 -!- rld has joined #hardfought 16:54 -!- mode/#hardfought [+v rld] by ChanServ 16:57 @Winsalot: Watch for named weapons in that room, though. 16:57 And consider identifying them. 16:57 They could be, potentially, significantly overenchanted. 16:57 <@Winsalot> Significantly is how much? 16:57 <@Winsalot> +9? 16:57 [hdf-us] [nh361] Rx (Hea Gno Mal Neu), 108 points, T:452, killed by boiling potions 16:57 <@Winsalot> +20? 16:58 <@Winsalot> cos I have two +7 swords at expert skill 16:58 <@Winsalot> and am really short on skill slots. Also want to invest into darts some 16:59 -!- Grasshopper has joined #hardfought 16:59 -!- mode/#hardfought [+v Grasshopper] by ChanServ 17:00 @Winsalot I'd have to look at the code for the exact formula, but could easily be past +9. 17:00 <@Winsalot> pretty cool 17:00 <@Winsalot> I will say my prayers to RNGesus to find overenchanted short sword 17:01 -!- raisse has quit [Ping timeout: 265 seconds] 17:01 -!- Grassy has quit [Ping timeout: 245 seconds] 17:08 What room is Winsalot in? 17:08 !who 17:08 Lymia: [hdf-us] Lymia [slex] krm26 [fh] SkydiveMike [nh361] Rx [nh361] hypnotist [nh361] Eleven [nh361] aosdict [xnh] 17:08 Lymia: [hdf-eu] winsalot [4k] 17:08 Lymia: [hdf-au] No current players 17:10 Lymia: He found a challenge room in Gehennom. 17:10 ah 17:10 [hdf-us] [nh361] Eleven (Pri Hum Fem Neu), 886 points, T:3025, killed by an imp 17:14 [hdf-us] [fh] Qi (krm26) (Arc Hum Fem Law), 26170 points, T:903, killed by a crossbow bolt 17:25 What does FIQHack's easy mode do? 17:36 PavelB: makes some things easier but then ramps up the difficulty at 20000 turns (unless FIQ has changed it in the meantime) 17:36 that said, I'm wondering... will FIQhack easy mode games count for junethack? 17:36 likely not 17:37 "a gold blue and green shield" 17:38 sounds... intricate :) 17:46 <@rikersan> scarab beetle? 17:49 they're regarded as explore mode games 17:50 [hdf-us] [xnh] aosdict (Rog Orc Fem Cha), 68133 points, T:17708, killed by a death ray 17:50 welp 17:50 one hit ko 17:59 <@Winsalot> Lol, one level above there is another one challenge room 18:05 [hdf-us] [nh361] hypnotist (Sam Hum Fem Law) killed Asmodeus, on T:52026 18:06 [hdf-us] [slex] Lymia (Mah Wis Fem Cha) killed Andrej, on T:37224 18:07 [hdf-us] [nh361] hypnotist (Sam Hum Fem Law) killed Baalzebub, on T:52110 18:07 [hdf-us] [nh361] hypnotist (Sam Hum Fem Law) killed Dispater, on T:52111 18:14 LarienTelrunya, the Mah quest is using lines from the Samurai (?) quest for scenes instead of unique ones 18:14 yes, I haven't written unique quest lines for every role 18:14 some new roles have their own dialogue, but mahou shoujo don't :( 18:21 hi 18:21 Hello K2, Welcome to #hardfought 18:31 jonadab: aoscav is coming along nicely, I'm trying first to recreate the mkmap code in python. For some reason it doesn't look quite right yet though. 18:33 It looks *mostly* right, but there are still way too many choke points. 18:40 -!- LarienTelrunya has quit [Quit: gonna get some sleep...] 18:40 Huh, apparently the lack of use of a backup buffer in pass_one is... quite significant. 18:45 [hdf-us] [slex] Lymia (Mah Wis Fem Cha) killed the invisible Pettler, on T:39564 18:49 [hdf-us] [nh361] hypnotist (Sam Hum Fem Law) killed Orcus, on T:53999 19:01 that took so many resources ._. 19:15 [hdf-us] [spl] antigulp (Bar Inf Fem Cha), 32402 points, T:9602, killed by an Elvenking 19:20 [hdf-us] [slex] Lymia (Mah Wis Fem Cha), 960399 points, T:41059, burned by a pool of lava by a cola eel 19:20 ff 19:27 !who 19:27 PavelB: [hdf-us] mighty [fh] krm26 [fh] 19:27 PavelB: [hdf-eu] No current players 19:27 PavelB: [hdf-au] No current players 19:28 -!- stenno has quit [Ping timeout: 256 seconds] 19:46 !who 19:46 K2: [hdf-us] mighty [fh] krm26 [fh] 19:46 K2: [hdf-eu] No current players 19:46 K2: [hdf-au] No current players 19:47 -!- greqrg has joined #hardfought 20:11 [hdf-us] [xnh] aosdict (Hea Hum Mal Neu), 216 points, T:373, killed by a small mimic 20:20 hm, hobbits' mithril elven chain mails seem slightly OP 20:20 7 AC 20:24 hterm is now working for AU server 20:24 ewet 20:24 wewt 20:30 * aosdict feels like "ewet" involves sheep sacrifice 20:30 [hdf-us] [spl] hothraxxa (Hea Gno Mal Neu) wished for "blessed greased fixed historic lit +5 helm of brilliance named brain", on T:43016 20:31 I am now 24 20:32 Happy birthday 20:32 thanks 20:33 if I had a wish right now I'd use it on you 20:33 I want to make a joke about old people right now but 24 isn't actually very old :P 20:33 aosdict: ewet is when someone throws a water balloon at you via the internet. 20:34 Eh, 24 is more than half my age. 20:35 * jonadab is 22.83 million minutes old. 20:35 Or 1132 fortnights. 20:35 FIQ: Did you get cake? 20:37 In[1]:= Quantity[22.83*10^6, "minute"]~UnitConvert~"year" 20:37 Interpreting unit .... 20:37 Out[1]= 43.4361 years 20:40 [hdf-us] [fh] Qi (krm26) (Tou Hum Fem Neu), 44514 points, T:5682, killed by a lynx 20:45  20:47 ^ 20:47 happy birthday FIQ! 20:48 Hmm... That's my pet gray ooze about to step on a rolling boulder trap. 20:49 I am 2.72e+52 planck time units old (approx) 20:50 Tangles: a pet gray ooze ;) unstoppable 20:50 side topic - I have just discovered KiTTY and PuTTYTabManager 20:50 * Tangles gives FIQ a cake with 7 candles, a nice book, and... 20:51 ...something loud and silver. 20:51 puttytray isnt developed anymore, i need something current 20:51 heh 20:52 [hdf-us] [xnh] aosdict (Rog Orc Fem Cha), 373 points, T:1208, killed by a small mimic 20:52 stupid shopkeeper 20:55 they are very cunning 20:55 Grasshopper: Message from K2 at 2018-05-23 11:10 EDT: try ssh nethack@au.hardfought.org when you play next, ping it, see if that's any better for you :P 20:55 and deceitful (why else do they allow mimics into their shops?) 20:56 Where do you think shopkeepers get their goods? From dead, unobservant, hapless adventurers 20:57 !tell K2 I'll try HDF-au 20:57 Will do, Grasshopper! 21:02 !tell K2 average pings today HDF-US:288ms; HDF-EU:262ms; HDF-AS:321ms 21:02 Will do, Grasshopper! 21:02 wow 21:02 K2: Message from Grasshopper at 2018-05-23 20:57 EDT: I'll try HDF-au 21:02 K2: Message from Grasshopper at 2018-05-23 21:02 EDT: average pings today HDF-US:288ms; HDF-EU:262ms; HDF-AS:321ms 21:03 where are you right now Grasshopper? 21:07 Thailand 21:07 K2 ^ 21:08 but relaying through Hong Kong 21:10 [hdf-us] [spl] hothraxxa (Hea Gno Mal Neu) entered Gehennom, on T:43235 21:10 ah 21:16 !tell antigulp killing a worm that walks doesn't produce death maggots 21:16 Will do, hothraxxa! 21:25 testing games on au 21:27 K2 dying successfully? 21:27 [hdf-us] [spl] hothraxxa (Hea Gno Mal Neu) killed Juiblex, on T:43414 21:27 always 21:29 ooo, long run there 21:33 bwahaha 21:35 Is ChiefGreyBush K2's sock? 21:35 -!- tacco| has quit [] 21:36 hah 21:36 not bad 21:36 Soo... yes? 21:37 no 21:37 So someone is just dying repeatedly on every variant 21:38 its me 21:38 its a test account 21:38 That's what "sock" means 21:38 (Or sockpuppet) 21:38 what? 21:39 chiefgreybush = sock in whatever language? 21:39 -!- ProzacElf_ has joined #hardfought 21:39 If you have a secondary account, that account is considered a "sockpuppet" account. 21:40 Which is commonly shortened to sock 21:40 lol someone is populating empty xlogfiles :) 21:41 ah 21:41 never ever heard of that before PavelB 21:42 me being military/combat arms, if you ask someone if they have a sock, its usually referring to a deployment type masturbation aid 21:42 -!- ProzacElf has quit [Ping timeout: 248 seconds] 21:44 I can see how that could get weird 21:45 yup 21:45 and they were typically given a name 21:45 hence the confusion 21:46 I'm never going to look at Kermit the Frog the same way again 21:47 mission accomplished 21:48 phew! 21:48 :P 21:48 I'm not washing your socks. Ever. 21:48 -!- ProzacElf_ is now known as ProzacElf 21:49 hahahah 21:49 :D 21:49 ok so... 21:50 hdf-au is working just fine then, right? 21:51 seems to be 21:52 is AU closer for you PavelB? 21:52 I'm getting about the same pings actually 21:53 120 vs 110 21:57 very respectable, where are you to get such good pings? 21:57 Seattle 21:58 Counter strike on 100 ping: Basically fine. Nethack on 100 ping: Extremely noticeable and annoying lag. 21:58 right, so just a leap over the Pacific 21:58 PavelB, I rarely have less than 220ms pings 21:59 I play nethack locally so I don't get lag 22:00 but strangely that seems to work with my "not-holding-the-key-down" style of play 22:00 I'll just have to bear with it during junethack 22:00 -!- elenmirie has quit [Ping timeout: 260 seconds] 22:00 PavelB, you suffer for your art 22:02 K2 How do we get a server instance in Bangkok? Though I'd probably be the only one using it :D 22:02 dammit, revgeno'd silver dragons. 4 dragons, no scales hrumph 22:03 Does hardfought participate as its own clan during junethack? 22:03 <[Demo]> no 22:03 <[Demo]> hardfought is new 22:03 <[Demo]> the server is a little bit older than a year 22:04 Will it this year? 22:04 <[Demo]> people tend to stick with older clans 22:04 <[Demo]> there will be a hardfought clan I'm sure 22:04 <[Demo]> no one will call it that 22:04 hardfought is too involved with development and tourney development to make its own clan 22:04 <[Demo]> or think of it that way 22:04 [hdf-us] [un] ranlhach2 (Con Orc Mal Cha) killed Durin's Bane, on T:35712 22:04 I want to join a clan since I won't be able to achieve anything solo 22:04 there are old clans and new ones, bit of both 22:05 I'm pretty bad 22:05 <[Demo]> but all the newer regulars without a regular clan will join together with some existing clan I'm sure 22:05 <[Demo]> you should join slexy robber nymhets 22:05 Grasshopper: AWS can launch instances in Seoul, Mumbai, Singapore, and Tokyo. One of those might be better for you. 22:07 Tangles, Singapore (or maybe Seoul) likely the best I think, for me personally anyway. 22:09 [Demo]: That's a peculiar name :P 22:12 -!- Grasshopper has quit [Ping timeout: 260 seconds] 22:22 -!- Grasshopper has joined #hardfought 22:22 -!- mode/#hardfought [+v Grasshopper] by ChanServ 22:25 [hdf-us] [un] ranlhach2 (Con Orc Mal Cha) killed Medusa, on T:37592 22:43 -!- bug_sniper has joined #hardfought 22:45 -!- greqrg has quit [Quit: Disconnected] 22:46 -!- bug_sniper_ has joined #hardfought 22:49 -!- bug_sniper has quit [Ping timeout: 245 seconds] 22:58 hi 22:58 Hello bouquet, Welcome to #hardfought 23:32 I have no inclination to ever start a hardfought team or clan 23:32 i like being in teamsplat 23:33 Grasshopper: probably no to Bangkok ;) 23:46 -!- bug_sniper_ has quit [Read error: Connection reset by peer] 23:49 K2 best place local to me would be Singapore probably... but I guess it is all $$$ and time 23:49 it didnt take us too long to put up another server honestly 23:49 however I can blame lag as a big factor in why my last ascension last year was just a few seconds too late to count (time ticked over to July in the last few seconds) 23:49 AWS has its perks 23:50 initially I thought I'd made in in time, but alas no cigar for me 23:50 juggling 3 servers all with over a dozen variants... gonna stick with 3 for a lil while ;) 23:51 fair enough, pretty daunting although I guess each server "mirrors" the others in terms of setup etc 23:51 mostly 23:52 there are some differences 23:52 given your location, you should have a much better ping to sydney 23:52 There's only me using HDF in SEA so maybe we need more users here to justify it 23:52 K2 surprising, isn't it? 23:53 time to shop for another isp ;) 23:53 It is all about how many "hops" and routing etc 23:53 logistically, if i were to setup another server, japan makes a lot of sense 23:53 K2 yeah with current ISP I have to use VPN to access freenode consistently 23:54 or use the web irc on hardfought? 23:54 except that Japan is 3x the distance from me compared to Singapore/HK 23:54 K2 web IRC or not, Freenode knows my IP 23:55 no 23:55 web irc uses my ip here 23:55 as the ISP allocates IP addresses randomly from a pool, each time I login I get a new IP address that some fool has been operating an open proxy server from previously 23:55 you're using the hdf website as your host 23:56 and then connect to freenode via it 23:56 and the DBdrone thing just says "HA! You must be that dodgy open proxy dude from before" so block me 23:56 try it 23:56 K2 I've tried the HDF webIRC before and it knows 23:56 there is no spoon 23:56 indeed 23:56 looking at a map of the world 23:57 if you look at where sydney and london are 23:57 half way point between the two is roughly... iran 23:57 Singapore is good as many internet "cables" come in there 23:57 or pakistan 23:57 K2: dubai 23:57 heh 23:57 It's all about where the major access points are 23:57 my commander would love to hear that 23:58 Japan might be a good place to set up a server if hardfought was hosting nethack brass and getting some attention from japanese players 23:58 running a server in the middle east 23:58 K2 Your commander sounds wise 23:58 yeah singapore is a major hub 23:58 and dubai would be as well 23:58 Japan actually gets pretty good pings to US serves 23:58 AFAIK nobody in the hdf community is really connected to japan, except maybe stenno 23:58 servers 23:59 I know a guy who played from Japan and his pings were always pretty good (compared to mine) 23:59 south korea would probably be better than japan conenction wise 23:59 played NH that is 23:59 Japan/S.Korea/Singapore probably all good really