00:01 Wand of sleep? 00:02 [hdf-us] [nh362] eraserhead97 (Val Dwa Fem Law) completed Sokoban, on T:11086 00:05 <@carlarc> silver dragon 00:07 -!- tacco\unfoog has quit [Ping timeout: 250 seconds] 00:08 -!- tacco\unfoog has joined #hardfought 00:13 <@carlarc> oh my god the knight quest is horrible 00:13 <@carlarc> i can't see the quasits from all that water 00:13 <@luxidream> FIQhack? 00:13 <@carlarc> yes 00:13 <@luxidream> Yeah FH dragons are busted 00:13 <@luxidream> get used to it 00:14 <@carlarc> what's with them? 00:14 <@carlarc> what changed 00:14 <@luxidream> really high speed, explosive breath 00:14 <@carlarc> oh yeah i was caught up in that 00:14 <@carlarc> very very lucky i had cold resistance 00:14 <@luxidream> You want cold immunity from a ring or armor 00:14 <@carlarc> definitely 00:15 <@luxidream> They are speed 20 00:16 <@luxidream> If they see you are immune to breath attacks they will close for melee 00:16 <@luxidream> Otherwise, will try to kite you at range 00:16 <@luxidream> Very nasty 00:20 -!- raisse has joined #hardfought 00:23 [hdf-us] [fh] carl (carlarc) (Kni Dwa Fem Law) defeated Ixoth, on T:21169 00:23 <@carlarc> wow that was actually pretty easy 00:23 <@carlarc> jousting is pretty good 01:02 <@carlarc> !tell FIQ wielding a lance makes this pop up 01:02 Will do, @carlarc! 01:02 https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/400474774440247317/534975793546133514/unknown.png 01:18 Beholder broke itself 01:19 -!- ProzacElf_ has joined #hardfought 01:20 -!- ProzacElf has quit [Read error: Connection reset by peer] 01:20 -!- ProzacElf_ is now known as ProzacElf 01:24 -!- bug_sniper has joined #hardfought 01:44 [hdf-us] [sp] k2 (Wiz Dwa Mal Neu) retrieved the Mine's End luckstone, on T:17527 01:44 [hdf-us] [nh362] Grouchy (Bar Hum Mal Neu), 3196 points, T:3147, killed by a fire ant 01:45 <@carlarc> jesus christ getting gifts in fh is a pain 01:47 [hdf-us] [fh] carl (carlarc) (Kni Dwa Fem Law) received Dragonbane from Lugh, on T:25113 01:47 <@carlarc> finally 01:53 <@carlarc> wow i have three sources of reflection 01:53 <@carlarc> that's annoying 01:59 -!- LarienTelrunya has joined #hardfought 01:59 -!- mode/#hardfought [+v LarienTelrunya] by ChanServ 02:00 [hdf-us] [nh362] eraserhead97 (Val Dwa Fem Law) killed Medusa, on T:13327 02:10 [hdf-us] [fh] carl (carlarc) (Kni Dwa Fem Law) genocided cockatrices, on T:26574 02:25 [hdf-us] [nh362] leonard (Hea Gno Mal Neu), 1289 points, T:2558, killed by a human zombie 02:35 [hdf-us] [fh] Wilehmina (permagreen) (Val Dwa Fem Law), 23732 points, T:1649, killed by a jaguar 02:36 -!- theRaisse has joined #hardfought 02:38 -!- raisse is now known as Guest35119 02:38 -!- theRaisse is now known as raisse 02:39 -!- Guest35119 has quit [Ping timeout: 268 seconds] 03:21 -!- Gaelan has joined #hardfought 03:21 [hdf-us] [nh362] Gaelan (Kni Hum Mal Law), 778 points, T:2541, killed by a magic missile 03:22 A goblin. 03:22 With a blindness potion. 03:22 In a shop. 03:22 -!- Gaelan has quit [Client Quit] 03:24 Accomplice. 03:28 EPI: hostile monsters in shops zap wands of make invisible at the shopkeeper. 03:29 Wouldn't that make the shopkeeper angry if the player did that? 03:29 But guys shoot up the shopkeepers all the time and they don't care 03:31 Andrio, LarienTelrunya: Shopkeepers are monsters, are they not? They just have a different, cleverer strategy for killing the player than the rest. 03:31 you mean zapping wands which don't always work? 03:32 The player is decieved into believing the shopkeepe isn't hostile to them, and as so doesn't murder them instantly like they would any other monster. The shk bides his time for the opportunity to spring his trap. 03:32 Mm 03:33 If the horse doesn't kill him first 03:33 technically shopkeepers are monsters, yes :) 03:33 I'm telling you, it all makes sense 03:34 they rip off the player with jacked up prices because they're part of the Wizard of Yendor's master plan to defeat the player, that's why they also enforce Rodney's fuel tax :D 03:35 EPI: every once in a while (e.g. once every 10k turns), the player character has to pay tax, which is 10% of the player's current amount of gold (including in containers) plus the deepest dungeon level reached * 100 plus the experience level * 1000. 03:35 You should write in a branch or something about the evil shk conspiracy 03:36 (EPI continuation) And the player has to pay those taxes in Minetown, within 2000 turns after receiving the bill, or the game will spawn tax collectors, which are very high-level K-class monsters that get stronger the more of them you kill and which respawn infinitely until you pay your bills. :P 03:37 Bonus EPI: if you are in Minetown while the tax collectors are after your hide, all the watchmen will be hostile. Even if you go there to actually pay up. They will try to kill you as you try to make your way to the tax master's office where you can pay. :D 03:37 but what if you don't use any fuel? 03:37 and you walk around in the dark 03:41 well the fuel tax will of course be added on top of the bill if you use fuel (it should become due if you ever light any ignitable item, and if you do it in the shop, the shopkeeper will collect his share of tax on top of it :D) 03:41 basically, because it's an EPI, it's all about ripping off the player as much as possible, draining their money supply. 03:43 EPI: the player character starts out married, with their spouse supposedly being outside of the dungeon, and if the game goes on for long enough, that spouse will want a divorce and a NPC will visit you to tell you about that fact. If you refuse to pay alimony, the spouse will send hitmen (invisible high-level assassins with vorpal weapons) to kill you. :P 03:44 don't think being in the dungeon counts as a reason for divorce if you are the Chosen One and it has been known since birth that you would be sent off to the Dungeons of Doom. 03:44 even if you visit her every so often at the quest level? 03:45 since in nethack, unlike most roguelikes, your homeland actually does exist 03:48 yeah but you only ever visit a small area of that homeland 03:48 "You've changed. You're not the same person you were before you went off to hack ants and eat molds." 03:49 -!- phinxy has quit [Read error: No route to host] 03:49 "I've heard that you were having intercourse with succubi in those dungeons, you unfaithful bastard! Face the wrath of my rolling pin!" :P 03:50 attie: Clearly you're not the Chosen *One*, there are bones, after all, so all nethack runs are in a continuous universe. I think it's more like, the gods go "Welp, that guy failed, time to give divine inspiration the next guy, hope he does better" 03:50 And then I guess they just keep losing the amulet after a while after someone actually does ascend 03:51 the gods just have an eternal game of capture the flag by proxy going. 03:51 whoever gains the amulet becomes the new moloch. 03:52 :O I like that theory 03:52 deep nethack lore exploration going on here 03:53 Only one chosen one allowed at any one time 03:53 per god 03:53 only allowed to designate as new chosen one anyone born after the last one died 03:55 chosen one has to be picked at birth, not allowed to wait and see which of them grows up extra strong/bright 03:56 wide-angle disintegration beam is your god ragequitting on you 03:58 when your god is being unhelpful, they're hoping you die quick because there's a really strong valkyrie pregnant over there and they have high hopes for her kid 04:00 Now, as we know when a hacker ascends, he achieves immortality 04:00 Say a hacker, call him "aozdict" or something, has ascended a few years ago 04:00 Maybe he got bored just watching the gods run their game of capture-the-flag, and proposes his own ideas to keep it interesting, say we call them ynethack or whatever 04:05 -!- pellsson has quit [Ping timeout: 246 seconds] 04:12 eternity does get a bit boring after a while. 04:12 -!- pellsson has joined #hardfought 04:13 LarienTelrunya, your variant has a chastity belt right? 04:14 bug_sniper: yes, but it doesn't actually prevent sex or pregnancy :D all it does is ward against the possibility of catching a STD 04:15 and what if you've had a gender change before you find your spouse again? 04:16 I guess there's its own challenges 04:17 *shrug* doesn't impede IRL couples either 04:17 (at least I have a trans friend who is still married to the woman she married when she was still passing as a man) 04:20 if a couple really loves each other, the partner's gender shouldn't matter :D 04:22 "shouldn't" and "really" makes that very no-true-scotsmany 05:16 -!- raisse has quit [Ping timeout: 268 seconds] 05:22 [hdf-us] [nh362] arnibald (Rog Hum Mal Cha) polymorphed his first object, on T:14168 05:24 -!- phinxy has joined #hardfought 05:30 -!- stennowork has quit [Read error: Connection reset by peer] 05:33 [hdf-us] [slshm] luxor (Val Dop Fem Neu), 303739 points, T:42736, choked on a quivering blob corpse 05:34 [hdf-us] [nh362] arnibald (Rog Hum Mal Cha) acquired the luckstone from Mines' End, on T:14794 05:42 -!- ProzacElf has quit [Ping timeout: 244 seconds] 05:50 -!- stennowork has joined #hardfought 05:58 -!- raisse has joined #hardfought 06:01 -!- elenmirie_ has joined #hardfought 06:24 [hdf-us] [slshm] luxor (Val Dop Fem Neu), 14799 points, T:6609, killed by a tiger 06:40 -!- raisse has quit [Read error: Connection reset by peer] 06:40 -!- raisse has joined #hardfought 06:40 [hdf-us] [nh362] arnibald (Rog Hum Mal Cha) had Ogresmasher bestowed upon him by Kos, on T:18397 06:59 -!- j has joined #hardfought 07:00 -!- j is now known as rebatela 07:31 [hdf-us] [nh362] rebatela (Mon Hum Mal Neu) eschewed atheism, by dropping a crude dagger on an altar, on T:3618 07:44 [hdf-us] [nh362] rebatela (Mon Hum Mal Neu) became literate by reading a scroll, on T:4760 07:51 [hdf-us] [nh362] rebatela (Mon Hum Mal Neu) made his first wish - "blessed eye of the aethiopica", on T:5004 08:02 [hdf-us] [un] hothraxxa (Hea Gno Fem Neu) killed the Watcher in the Water, on T:35961 08:10 [hdf-us] [nh362] rebatela (Mon Hum Mal Neu) acquired the luckstone from Mines' End, on T:6685 08:11 he kitten devours a fortune cookie. The kitten turns into an ogre mage! 08:11 *The 08:11 chameleons immitating kittens are more common than actual kittens in splice 08:14 regardless, it just wandered down the soko corridor and stayed there. Perfect behaviour for a pet. 08:15 Someone spilled potion of polymorph on the cookie 08:15 and got killed by the first monster it encountered. At least I don't have to figure out how to get it out of the corridor. 08:16 mm 08:17 heh, YASI/EPI: food can be spiked with potions, which makes the food do stuff depending on the kind of potion if you then eat it. In the EPI version, food could generate already spiked and you have to formally identify it if you want to know in advance whether that fortune cookie will polymorph you. :P 08:17 -!- theRaisse has joined #hardfought 08:17 -!- raisse has quit [Ping timeout: 252 seconds] 08:17 EPI: having potions thrown at you might spike food in your open inventory 08:21 without telling you that it happened, of course. :) 08:22 yeah. 08:22 Though in vanilla, the range of potions monsters throw at you is a bit tame for that 08:22 at worst, you'd get paralyzed, which is common anyway 08:23 -!- theRaisse has quit [Ping timeout: 250 seconds] 08:24 hi! 08:24 Hello K2, Welcome to #hardfought 08:26 ...and got a "silver bejeweled amulet", which obviously I can't wear because it's silver. 08:26 1st world infernal problems :P 08:26 Hello 08:26 Hello Andrio, Welcome to #hardfought 08:26 well I'm only doing soko early because I got orctown, so no point persisting there. 08:28 but I haven't been able to make any good starts stick, so maybe this will be the one. 08:29 so i rebuild our SANS from scratch 08:30 re-importing the last of the VM's now 08:30 i've got a 4TB one that's taking forever 08:31 the old setup had no read cache or dynamic spare 08:31 so many other things that was misconfigured... now it's good 08:31 s/was/were 08:34 -!- LarienTelrunya has quit [Quit: Page closed] 08:39 [hdf-us] [nh362] rebatela (Mon Hum Mal Neu), 18137 points, T:8944, killed by an energy vortex 08:39 -!- ProzacElf has joined #hardfought 08:41 -!- rebatela has quit [Quit: Konversation terminated!] 08:44 -!- ProzacElf has quit [Ping timeout: 268 seconds] 08:44 or maybe not 08:46 :( 09:01 how many different death messages did antigulp make? and I assume its random 09:01 that's pretty cool 09:03 [hdf-us] [nh362] Karnac (Pri Hum Mal Neu), 369 points, T:965, killed by a large dog, while frozen by a monster's gaze 09:03 [hdf-us] [nh362] Karnac (Pri Hum Mal Neu), 16 points, T:12, killed by a water demon 09:07 stick around, you'll eventually see them all 09:09 but not tonight. I'm off. g'night! 09:21 gnite Tangles 09:24 -!- asdf__ has joined #hardfought 09:25 -!- elenmirie_ has quit [Ping timeout: 258 seconds] 09:33 [hdf-us] [nh362] Xaleth (Val Dwa Fem Law) rejected atheism with a prayer, on T:3354 09:37 -!- Gaelan has joined #hardfought 09:40 [hdf-us] [nh362] Xaleth (Val Dwa Fem Law) acquired the luckstone from Mines' End, on T:3400 09:42 -!- Gaelan has quit [Client Quit] 09:45 -!- asdf__ has quit [Quit: Page closed] 09:55 -!- LarienTelrunya has joined #hardfought 09:55 -!- mode/#hardfought [+v LarienTelrunya] by ChanServ 09:57 PavelB: *removes fake mustache/nose/glasses* who is this "aozdict" and "ynethack" you speak of? 09:57 ;) 09:58 aosdict: were you going to make an object materials patch for vanilla? or was that just you thinking of things out loud 09:59 <{Demo}1> znethack 09:59 <{Demo}1> the final variant 10:00 wow I just saw that reddit post in #nethack. could you get any more dense 10:03 -!- Gaelan has joined #hardfought 10:13 which post 10:13 oh 10:13 THAT one 10:15 why are people even replying? dont you know not to feed the trolls? 10:15 obvious he/she/it wants the attention 10:16 what post was that? 10:16 oh if it was a troll who cares 10:16 never mind 10:16 :) 10:17 https://www.reddit.com/r/nethack/comments/agj0ol/is_there_a_way_to_tell_if_my_account_got_banned/ <--- because I know stenno really wants to know 10:17 well I did some research, and I now know the nao username of that person, and her previous reddit account (which seems to be disabled now), and also that she is a supporter of alt-right. If I were dtype or paxed, I'd not give in if she asks for an unban. 10:18 Didn't expect her to stoop so low though. 10:18 nothing stopping them from making a new account. unless they banned her IP 10:18 and there's ways around that too 10:19 I guess it was a matter of time until someone comes along and abuses the mail system :( 10:19 -!- pellsson has quit [Ping timeout: 268 seconds] 10:24 -!- noty has quit [Quit: WeeChat 2.2] 10:26 <{Demo}1> I mean it's kind of funny in a certain way 10:27 its funny in a 'you're an idiot' way 10:27 <{Demo}1> yeah 10:27 <{Demo}1> like I was expecting something a lot more boring 10:27 <@Tone> It sounds like their actions weren't very funny 10:27 [hdf-us] [nh362] Karnac (Pri Hum Mal Neu), 6009 points, T:3015, killed by a white unicorn 10:28 pretty sure that if she keeps posting on reddit she'll also fall back into her old (bad) posting habits there and annoy everyone 10:28 nope 10:28 played as 'feminist' bwahahaha 10:29 Edit the save to #name all their items "don't be an arsehole" and to guarantee death around the next corner. Unban account. Wait a bit. Reban account. 10:29 <{Demo}1> haha 10:30 <{Demo}1> that would be something I could see kerio doing 10:30 i have been pinged 10:33 now you've done it {Demo}1... 10:34 i thought he had to ping him three times 10:34 this is why we can't have nice things 10:35 <{Demo}1> ah fuck oops 10:41 LarienTelrunya: is the old reddit handle "ThatFeministGirl"? 10:41 -!- pellsson has joined #hardfought 10:41 aosdict: yep 10:41 yeah I remembered that 10:42 always knew that there was something wrong with her, but this is a new low (I watched the ttyrec of the nao player who got those messages and... wow... yeah instant ban with no possibility of appeals I'd say) 10:42 man the original swagginnz post now has less upvotes than the repost 10:42 what is this shit 10:42 reddit 10:43 -!- Gaelan has quit [Quit: My MacBook has gone to sleep. ZZZzzz…] 10:43 at some point i will just leave reddit for good 10:43 most of the communities are just circlejerks and noobs 10:43 the subreddit for my favorite band death grips is one of those circlejerks 10:44 death grips is a meme band but most of the memes posted are terrible 10:44 stennowork: join r/slashemextended then! we're also a circlejerk but at least we jerk off to a nethack variant! :P 10:44 sure why not 10:44 i assume it's relatively low-traffic anyway 10:44 yeah, 27 subscribers right now 10:45 <{Demo}1> I refuse to use reddit cause bad 10:45 but warning: "bundlebundlebundle" may appear randomly throughout my posts there :D 10:45 * stennowork is fine with bundling 10:45 <@luxidream> why is every subreddit eternal September 10:45 Because the whole internet is. 10:46 [hdf-us] [nh362] Karnac (Pri Hum Mal Neu) made his first wish - "blessed +2 gray dragon scale mail", on T:1014 10:46 seriously the programming related subreddits are a bunch of shit 10:46 * hothraxxa sends luxi a cd with 300 free hours 10:46 just because there are so many noobs on it 10:46 we appologize. 10:46 now, there is nothing wrong with it as such, but as soon as you delve deeper into language, your only choice basically is IRC :D 10:47 somehow all the pros hang around on freenode, which is nice 10:47 I've seen some good stuff in programming reddits. 10:47 Like the only good explanation of fronted tooling so far. 10:47 frontend 10:49 like, webpack + babel + react and stuff? 10:49 Yeah. 10:49 How it all comes together. 10:49 Which for a newb is quite inscrutable. 10:49 yes, the JS ecosystem is.. confusing 10:49 And most devs are totally unable to break free from their daze. 10:49 thats true 10:49 And explain things lucidly. 10:49 <@luxidream> I mean, the internet is capable of having more in-depth discussions. Just not reddit 10:50 Reddit is huge. 10:50 There are good parts too. 10:50 yeah, they are rather few and far apart. 10:50 But still better than random internet browsing. 10:52 for me ##javascript has been the most help - it depends a bit who is online at the moment of your question being asked of course 10:52 the inpermanence is probably the biggest problem with IRC support 10:52 Hm, might have try it sometimes. 10:52 I guess it's quite busy? 10:52 but like, ##javascript has ~1k members 10:52 yeah, often 10:53 #perl on Freenode is amazingly helpful though. 10:53 It full of really knowledgeable people. 10:53 oftentimes you will find regulars arguing about best practices and patterns/antipatters 10:53 If ##javascript is 50% of that, it would be worth joining. 10:53 Mandevil, one thing is to find a knowledgable person, then other thing is finding one that is also willing to explain it to you with patience :) 10:54 it's much more noob-friendly than, say, #html for example 10:55 the op of #html is quite trigger happy 10:55 Well, HTML isn't really something I'd have much trouble with. 10:55 there are a few basic rules that you have to know, and then you can look everything up easily 10:55 HTML is also fairly simple, compared to CSS. 10:56 coolest thing i learned there was:
<- invalid in HTML4, valid in HTML5 10:56 i guess yeah 10:56 Hm, really? 10:56 yeah because html5 doesn't have this block vs inline thing anymore 10:57 html5 has display : inline, block and inline-block 10:57 yes but that's css :) 10:57 Yes, but those are implicit display's for the elements. 10:57 div is implicitly block. 10:57 a is implicitly inline. 10:58 that is a recommendation from the CSS UA specs 10:58 it's not mentioned anywhere in the actual HTML5 spec 10:58 (however it was part of HTML4) 10:58 Like a compliant browser can have div inline by default? 10:58 Mandevil, actually, the `initial` value is for display is "inline" 10:59 for any element 10:59 Interesting. 10:59 as usual with whatwg specs, they are always super vague 10:59 But can I reasonably expect DIV to be block? 10:59 yes 10:59 so, why? 10:59 <{Demo}1> just use flexviews 10:59 <{Demo}1> for everything ever 11:00 Mandevil, why what? 11:00 Why can I expect DIV to default to display: inline. 11:00 I mean block 11:00 because in the CSS spec, they give a recommendation that UA (like browsers) should provide this default UA stylesheet, which says that DIV is display: block 11:01 lemme find it actually 11:01 Should... but not must. 11:01 yeah 11:01 Hey, I gotta go home. 11:01 oh ok 11:01 And this discussion doesn't belong here anyway. 11:02 <{Demo}1> hdf has no topic 11:02 See you later. 11:02 Mandevil, just here is the intro sentence in the rendering section: User agents are not required to present HTML documents in any particular way. However, this section provides a set of suggestions for rendering HTML documents that, if followed, are likely to lead to a user experience that closely resembles the experience intended by the documents' authors. 11:02 the typical whatwg/w3c vagueness :D 11:02 anyway, see you later o7 11:02 -!- Gaelan has joined #hardfought 11:02 stennowork: Lol! 11:04 -!- Gaelan has quit [Client Quit] 11:05 <{Demo}1> "K[two]: [no ping plz] so there's no misunderstanding - <#389212978030968832> will always be 'anything goes' as far as topics go" 11:05 Mandevil, to finish this: the 'display' value makes no statement about in which context a html element is valid 11:05 <{Demo}1> ah oh well the weird shit is supposed to say the channel name 11:06 Mandevil, however the html5 content category/permitted content does. maybe lets talk more about it later when you are back (and interested anyway) :D 11:17 -!- every has joined #hardfought 11:22 -!- every has quit [Remote host closed the connection] 11:27 -!- Gaelan has joined #hardfought 11:33 [hdf-us] [un] hothraxxa (Hea Gno Fem Neu) wished for "blessed historic fixed +5 oilskin cloak named prop. of the crisco kid", on T:36839 11:34 in the prop of the crisco kid.... 11:34 AaaAAA 11:34 aaahaaa 11:34 (var. King Crimson - In the court of the Crimson King) 11:35 it's the 21st century 11:35 SCHIZOID 11:36 such a great album 11:36 outstanding album 11:36 aye 11:36 with greg lake as singer! 11:36 your taste in music seems to be a generation behind your age 11:36 i see that as a good thing 11:36 i like a lot of music 11:37 i also listen to 2018 industrial/experimental hip hop :P 11:37 which tbh pretty much fits in with acid 11:37 shrug idk 11:39 oh crap another unnethack smoky potion wish 11:39 what to get, t-shirt? 11:39 silver saber? 11:40 100 +3 poisoned silver arrows? 11:40 a javelin 11:40 or maybe some nice plate mail 11:41 got a t-shirt and werebane 11:41 actually i think i'll get a nice crystal pick 11:41 world peace 11:41 oh nice 11:43 [hdf-us] [un] hothraxxa (Hea Gno Fem Neu) wished for "holy historic +3 crystal pick named !meth", on T:36845 11:44 <@Tone> stennowork: heh, I noticed the swagginz article was on the reddit frontpage as three different submissions the other day 11:44 yeah annoying 11:44 -!- theRaisse has joined #hardfought 11:45 <@Tone> Are there active mods there? Duplicates should probably be deleted, unless there's too much discussion already by the time it is noticed 11:45 <@luxidream> If I ever beat Adeon’s record, I guarantee you there will be people who will say “lul that isn’t WR beat 7 minutes!!!” 11:45 <@Tone> lol lux 11:46 yeah i saw that one of the admins actually posted in a duplicate post 11:46 skeeto 11:47 he linked to hackernews in the repost 11:47 <@Tone> Ah, yeah they responded pretty quickly a while back when a submission of mine was caught in the spam filter 11:47 hothraxxa: your prop of the crisco kid cloak made me think of The Frisco Kid 11:49 @Tone also ais523 is a mod I think, so if he's online you can ask him for stuff 11:49 he is not a reddit mod 11:49 <@Tone> @luxidream I'd suspect that you could probably ascend in well under an hour if you had a stuffed bones file, which feels equivalent enough to unlimited wishes 11:50 <@Tone> You wouldn't have the benefit of knowing the future or bot automation though 11:50 could just play a few explore mode games for fun i guess 11:50 yeah, still couldn't crack sub 7 minutes I think 11:51 <@luxidream> Assuming perfect bones stuffing probably less than 30 min 11:55 <@luxidream> Actually, would it be reasonable to make explore mode a config option in hdf? 11:57 I'm fairly sure you still get regular bones levels in explore mode, so that could be used to "purge" a variant of existing bones files with no real risk 11:58 <@luxidream> Does it work that way in NH4? 11:59 <@luxidream> Explore mode is allowed on server there 11:59 7 minutes is sooo long :( if we turned off rendering i bet you she would ascend in sub 10 seconds. 12:01 (not that there is anything to prove at this point, just trying to defend the lousy time ;)) 12:01 <@luxidream> I’m lucky to be at minetown in less than a minute 12:02 you are presumably human though :) 12:02 sub 1 min to minetown is crazy 12:06 <@luxidream> pellsson: question though, why was it necessary for a human to find the fountain that could be manipulated 12:14 -!- Gaelan has quit [Quit: My MacBook has gone to sleep. 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ZZZzzz…] 13:15 -!- Anerag has quit [Remote host closed the connection] 13:23 LarienTelrunya, K2: I responded on that reddit thread 13:24 dtype: hopefully banning her(?) closes that case, trolls like that are known to make new accounts to continue trolling 13:24 LarienTelrunya: hopefully this just ends it. Will see. 13:24 don't have these problems often 13:25 but yes, I banned the account 13:25 -!- Anerag has joined #hardfought 13:25 stennowork: ^^ 13:25 good dtype 13:25 just the account? no ip ban? 13:26 I didn't bother to go look for the IP. I don't log all session IPs I think, so would have to catch them online. 13:26 ah 13:26 we'll see what goes from here. hopefully doesn't come to IP banning 13:26 the racial slurs would be a perm ip ban here 13:26 but the particular insults and harassment being thrown were first order and didn't deserve a warning 13:27 yeah can confirm, I saw the ttyrec with the slurs and I'd have given an immediate ban with no possibility of appeals too 13:27 yeah from the description, we're past a warning 13:28 i've only ever had to perm ban someone once since hosting nethack 13:28 when i was running FPS type game servers, it was a couple every month or more 13:28 I actually waited for the second person to report it 13:29 but after the second for the same user, with same type of first order unacceptable, pulled the trigger 13:29 yup 13:29 the person also didn't register with a valid email address, so not as if I could send a warning anyway 13:30 dunno if they still exist or not... way back in the day (original counterstrike, quakeworld, quake2, etc) there was an online clan called myg0t. their sole purpose for existience was to cheat and grief players on as many servers as possible 13:31 they would target servers with pro-active admins and communities and try to take over a server and chase everyone away. i had a run in with them like that a couple times 13:34 -!- stennowork has quit [Quit: Leaving] 13:43 <@carlarc> poor grey-elf 13:43 https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/400474774440247317/535167331853402112/unknown.png 13:46 luxidream: Not per se necessary, but otherwise pellsson would have to have written a bot to explore the first few dungeon levels (in a fair game, as a Tourist) to look for one. 13:51 K2: Judging by (ugh) reddit, myg0t is effectively dead 13:51 i should hope so 13:51 otherwise 20+ would be an amazing run for such a 'clan' 13:51 20+ yrs 13:53 Eh, SA Goons (who, for the avoidance of doubt, I am not suggesting are similar) are coming up on their 20th birthday :-) 13:53 heh 13:54 i didn't even know the salvation army had goons 13:54 their bell ringing is just brutal 13:54 i guess they hit you with their tubas 13:55 I hear salvation army is pretty shit 13:55 They're pretty near the bottom in terms of what percent of your donation actually goes anywhere 13:57 [hdf-us] [nh362] Karnac (Pri Hum Mal Neu), 839 points, T:1772, killed by a gnome 13:57 wtf? what's this about nastygrams? 13:57 somebody sending nastygram mails? 13:57 in nh 14:13 [hdf-us] [un] Delraven (Arc Hum Mal Law), 1839 points, T:2688, killed by a killer bee 14:14 [hdf-us] [nh362] Karnac (Pri Hum Mal Neu), 974 points, T:1790, killed by a dwarf 14:15 i was told that the salvation army is some sort of fundamentalist christian organization which are very aggressive against lgbt 14:15 oh yeah 14:15 that 14:15 Honestly it feels like every charity is crap 14:16 i am sure that there are bona fide charities 14:19 but fuck the fundamentalists 14:19 My smile.amazon.com and Humble Bundle are set to Child's Play 14:19 or as illuminatus! puts it, DEATH TO ALL FANATICS 14:21 -!- theRaisse has quit [Ping timeout: 244 seconds] 14:24 Croesus wields a cursed crude dagger! The crude dagger welds itself to Croesus' hand! 14:24 * hothraxxa snickers 14:25 <@carlarc> how does that even happen 14:25 <@carlarc> doesn't he generate with a sword 14:25 a two-handed sword 14:25 [hdf-us] [un] hothraxxa (Hea Gno Fem Neu) killed Croesus, on T:39792 14:30 -!- Mandevil has quit [Quit: leaving] 14:34 * aosdict starts xnh debug game, cursed silver magic lamp right next to stairs 14:35 -!- Gaelan has joined #hardfought 14:39 <@carlarc> !tell FIQ apparently dipping a potion of acid into water makes it both explode and corrupt the save 14:39 No worries, @carlarc, I've got this! 14:39 good old acid bugs ^_^ 14:39 [hdf-us] [nh362] Karnac (Pri Hum Mal Neu), 0 points, T:46, killed by a water moccasin, while reading a book 14:41 <@luxidream> aosdict: YANI - Special full-screen message for Vlad if the player is wielding a bullwhip 14:49 > full-screen 14:49 Shame nethack only supports one font size 14:49 wat 14:49 NetHack supports any font size my terminal does 14:49 ^ 14:49 Only one font size *at a time* 14:50 And it's probably not very large 14:51 ... it's as large as I want it to be 14:51 -!- ProzacElf has joined #hardfought 14:52 But if it's big enough for a short message to take up your full screen you're probably not having a fun time playing nethack 14:52 the screen scales with it :P 14:52 it's still 80x24 14:52 Well, yes, I'm not going to make the font size bigger than I want to use. I'm not quite sure I see what you're getting at. 14:53 <@luxidream> I meant the demon intros that xnh has right now 14:53 <@luxidream> those are full screen aren’t they? 14:53 ...They don't take up a full screen though? 14:54 ah, whatever 14:55 -!- theRaisse has joined #hardfought 14:58 [hdf-us] [nh362] Bartlem (Pri Hum Fem Cha), 14724 points, T:9870, killed by an energy vortex 14:59 -!- Mandevil has joined #hardfought 15:00 [hdf-us] [un] hothraxxa (Hea Gno Fem Neu) genocided master mind flayers dungeon wide on T:40344 15:04 [hdf-us] [nh362] eraserhead97 (Val Dwa Fem Law) wished for "blessed scrolls of charging", on T:16046 15:17 @luxidream Vlad already has an appearance message. What does having a bullwhip have to do with it? 15:20 -!- Gaelan has quit [Quit: My MacBook has gone to sleep. ZZZzzz…] 15:21 <@luxidream> Castlevania 15:22 [hdf-us] [nh362] gunnervi (Val Dwa Fem Law) wished for "blessed figurine of an archon", on T:37202 15:23 I know there's some meme related to dracula's dialogue in castlevania but I can't find it 15:24 [hdf-us] [nh362] Karnac (Pri Hum Mal Neu) made his first wish - "blessed rustproof +2 Mjollnir", on T:3082 15:26 -!- Gaelan has joined #hardfought 15:28 -!- raisse has joined #hardfought 15:29 -!- theRaisse has quit [Ping timeout: 268 seconds] 15:32 -!- Gaelan has quit [Quit: My MacBook has gone to sleep. ZZZzzz…] 15:34 [hdf-us] [nh362] Karnac (Pri Hum Mal Neu) rejected atheism by offering a hill orc corpse on an altar of Moloch, on T:4200 15:45 [hdf-us] [nh362] Karnac (Pri Hum Mal Neu) performed his first genocide (class c), on T:4945 15:52 is patr deliberately trying to get me and antigulp to stop pulling from vanilla? forcing enum numbers for "searchability" when none of them are ever used as numeric constants just makes it annoying for anyone trying to add values to that enum 15:53 <{Demo}1> refactoring is progress 15:55 -!- Gaelan has joined #hardfought 15:56 [hdf-us] [nh362] Karnac (Pri Hum Mal Neu) had Cleaver bestowed upon him by Brigit, on T:6058 15:58 yeah, have to renumber all the screen_symbols and that's "progress", sure. 16:04 -!- Gaelan has quit [Quit: My MacBook has gone to sleep. ZZZzzz…] 16:05 -!- Gaelan has joined #hardfought 16:08 [hdf-us] [fh] carl (carlarc) (Kni Dwa Fem Law) defeated Croesus, on T:33298 16:08 -!- raisse has quit [Ping timeout: 246 seconds] 16:09 -!- Gaelan has quit [Client Quit] 16:15 [hdf-us] [sp] k2 (Wiz Dwa Mal Neu) killed the Dark One, on T:28184 16:15 [hdf-us] [sp] k2 (Wiz Dwa Mal Neu) picked up the Bell of Opening, on T:28185 16:15 that's right 16:15 i picked up that bell like a boss 16:15 * K2 flexes 16:16 -!- Gaelan has joined #hardfought 16:17 * aosdict admires K2's pose 16:17 how do you pose coolly with a bell 16:17 hahah 16:17 well, it's like this... 16:18 it's a very important photoshoot, we need to get the next Dungeons of Doom tourism magazine to press 16:19 [hdf-us] [nh362] Karnac (Pri Hum Mal Neu) completed Sokoban, on T:8792 16:19 i'll shave me back then 16:19 since you say its THAT important 16:20 i'm kidding! I dont have trimmers... 16:20 oh hey this bag in the dark one's lair was a BoH 16:21 double yay 16:28 -!- Gaelan has quit [Quit: My MacBook has gone to sleep. ZZZzzz…] 16:38 hi 16:38 Hello Porkman, Welcome to #hardfought 16:38 do you know what this is? 16:38 You miss Baalphegor. You miss Baalphegor. Some unseen virtue is drawn from you. 16:38 The virtue is sucked into the open mouth of Baalphegor. 16:38 he just heals himself every time i take him down below about half 16:38 <@Tone> Dumbbell of Opening 16:39 <@Tone> What variant is that Porkman? 16:40 dnh 16:40 well, ndnh 16:40 <@Tone> ah, sounds like a question for Demo 16:42 [hdf-us] [nh362] gunnervi (Val Dwa Fem Law) killed Baalzebub, on T:40595 16:45 [hdf-us] [nh362] gunnervi (Val Dwa Fem Law) killed Yeenoghu, on T:40707 16:53 -!- Gaelan has joined #hardfought 16:56 -!- Gaelan has quit [Client Quit] 17:00 rld, he didn't know :op 17:07 <@luxidream> rld isn’t a person 17:11 [hdf-us] [nh362] gunnervi (Val Dwa Fem Law) killed Juiblex, on T:41443 17:15 -!- LarienTelrunya has quit [Quit: good night!] 17:23 -!- Gaelan has joined #hardfought 17:28 [hdf-us] [nh362] eraserhead97 (Val Dwa Fem Law) entered Gehennom, on T:18639 17:48 [hdf-us] [nh362] gunnervi (Val Dwa Fem Law) destroyed the invisible Vlad the Impaler, on T:43337 17:49 [hdf-us] [nh362] gunnervi (Val Dwa Fem Law) acquired the Candelabrum of Invocation, on T:43339 18:12 [hdf-us] [nh362] eraserhead97 (Val Dwa Fem Law) killed Lord Surtur, on T:20273 18:13 [hdf-us] [nh362] eraserhead97 (Val Dwa Fem Law) acquired the Bell of Opening, on T:20288 18:17 <@carlarc> has anyone noticed that knights sometimes get potion messages renamed to carafe? 18:17 <@carlarc> there's not a single mention of it in the wiki, so that's kinda interesting 18:18 [hdf-us] [fh] carl (carlarc) (Kni Dwa Fem Law) genocided class 'T', on T:34484 18:20 -!- ProzacElf_ has joined #hardfought 18:22 -!- ProzacElf has quit [Ping timeout: 258 seconds] 18:24 <@Tmasher> Thrown potions have random appearances (carafe, bottle, etc.) 18:24 <@luxidream> const char *bottlenames[] = { "bottle", "phial", "flagon", "carafe", "flask", "jar", "vial" }; 18:25 <@luxidream> just another case of "unlikely things happen in nethack" 18:28 <{Demo}1> phial vs vial 18:28 <{Demo}1> i never know 18:33 [hdf-us] [slex] sflicht (Jed Asg Mal Neu), 6343 points, T:2859, quit 18:36 <@carlarc> oh i'm dumb 18:36 <@carlarc> i always seem to notice only carafe when i'm a knight 18:39 [hdf-us] [nh362] eraserhead97 (Val Dwa Fem Law) polymorphed her first object, on T:21003 18:50 potions come in jars? 18:52 -!- greqrg has joined #hardfought 18:53 -!- oh6 has quit [Quit: Page closed] 18:55 -!- oh6 has joined #hardfought 18:58 aosdict: Given the weight, I'd be tempted to say they come in flagons. Oh, wait, that's on the list too. 19:03 [hdf-us] [fh] carl (carlarc) (Kni Dwa Fem Law) received Frost Brand from Lugh, on T:39424 19:07 <@carlarc> how do i kill all these goddamn peaceful gremlins 19:07 https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/400474774440247317/535248651275206656/unknown.png 19:08 -!- noty has joined #hardfought 19:09 [hdf-us] [fh] carl (carlarc) (Kni Dwa Fem Law) defeated Medusa, on T:39771 19:09 I had that happen on medusa once. Boy howdy did it wreck my reputation with my deity! 19:10 If they're friendly just ignore them. 19:11 negative alignment is entertaining but probably best avoided 19:12 actually if you're lawful why are the gremlins peaceful? 19:12 [hdf-us] [nh362] eraserhead97 (Val Dwa Fem Law) killed the invisible Asmodeus, on T:22680 19:13 In not-NH4, the obvious answer to peaceful gremlins is get a pet. 19:13 do peaceful monsters respect elbereth in fh? 19:13 I mean, does it scare them 19:14 <@carlarc> no idea oh6 19:14 I don't think FH changes that from vanilla, AFAIK? 19:14 <@carlarc> there was one when i first went down and then after i attacked it once it suddenly turned peaceful 19:14 <@carlarc> also playing knight is a fucking pain in the ass 19:15 <@carlarc> there's no prompt for attacking honor code-guarded monsters so i can never have a positive alignment, because FH erases yours every time you reduce something 19:15 <@carlarc> very very annoying 19:17 @carlarc: play Fourk :-) 19:18 (Fourk expects you to *actually* pay attention to your alignment.) 19:18 [hdf-us] [nh362] eraserhead97 (Val Dwa Fem Law) killed Juiblex, on T:22955 19:21 <@carlarc> do chaotic knights still have to follow honor code? 19:22 <@carlarc> legitimately thinking of putting on a helm of opposite alignment, at least until i find a helm of brilliance 19:26 -!- Porkman has quit [Read error: Connection reset by peer] 19:27 -!- Porkman has joined #hardfought 19:28 [hdf-us] [nh362] eraserhead97 (Val Dwa Fem Law) killed the invisible Baalzebub, on T:23384 19:28 for gremlins wear conflict if you've got it 19:29 Ooh, conflict, yes, that would work nicely. 19:29 <@carlarc> good idea 19:39 [hdf-us] [fh] carl (carlarc) (Kni Dwa Fem Law) wished for "blessed tinning kit", on T:40843 19:39 <@carlarc> oh what 19:39 <@carlarc> oh my god 19:40 <@carlarc> that was the only charge 19:40 <@carlarc> amazing 19:41 so one-eyed sam didn't have a single magic marker, damn her eye 19:46 [hdf-us] [nh362] Luxidream (Val Dwa Fem Law) had Excalibur thrown at her by some watery tart, on T:4086 19:49 @carlarc there should be a warning? 19:49 FIQ: Message from @carlarc at 2019-01-16 01:02 EST: wielding a lance makes this pop up 19:49 FIQ: Message from @carlarc at 2019-01-16 14:39 EST: apparently dipping a potion of acid into water makes it both explode and corrupt the save 19:49 is it broken? 19:50 <@carlarc> i haven't been getting any messages before attacking a fleeing/paralyzed enemy 19:50 what is your movement setting? 19:50 <@carlarc> ? 19:50 oh, honor code as in Knight 19:50 <@carlarc> yeah 19:50 I thought you meant attacking while standing on E 19:51 jonadab: not saying playing 4k is a bad idea 19:51 but 4k is an awful choice if you want better alignment management 19:51 [hdf-us] [nh362] Luxidream (Val Dwa Fem Law) changed form for the first time, becoming a black naga, on T:5612 19:51 as the reason for choosing a variant to play 19:57 [hdf-us] [nh362] Luxidream (Val Dwa Fem Law), 34628 points, T:7028, petrified by a cockatrice 19:59 !tell K2 pushed update: warn for Knight honor code violations 19:59 I'm on it, FIQ. 20:00 -!- Gaelan has quit [Read error: Connection reset by peer] 20:00 <@carlarc> thanks 20:01 @carlarc Lance is not a weapon unless riding 20:03 [hdf-us] [nh362] Luxidream (Val Dwa Fem Law), 1855 points, T:2010, killed by an orc-captain 20:13 [hdf-us] [nh362] Luxidream (Val Dwa Fem Law) had Excalibur thrown at her by some watery tart, on T:3429 20:21 -!- Gaelan has joined #hardfought 20:22 [hdf-us] [nh362] Luxidream (Val Dwa Fem Law) completed Sokoban, on T:6006 20:24 [hdf-us] [fh] carl (carlarc) (Kni Dwa Fem Law) genocided class 'L', on T:42502 20:31 [hdf-us] [nh362] Luxidream (Val Dwa Fem Law) killed Medusa, on T:8295 20:32 [hdf-us] [nh362] Luxidream (Val Dwa Fem Law) averted death, on T:8994 20:34 <@carlarc> any particularly good way to find touchstones? 20:35 well they're easily detected once found, but there's no particular place they are biased to generate 20:35 except arc bones, and I guess the mines have a better than average chance because they generate random * 20:35 or tool shops in xnethack 20:36 Also they're not very useful. 20:36 [hdf-us] [nh362] Luxidream (Val Dwa Fem Law) made her first wish - "2 blessed scrolls of charging", on T:10069 20:36 [hdf-us] [nh362] Luxidream (Val Dwa Fem Law) wished for "2 cursed greased scrolls of genocide", on T:10070 20:36 [hdf-us] [nh362] Luxidream (Val Dwa Fem Law) wished for "blessed ring of conflict", on T:10070 20:38 [hdf-us] [nh362] Luxidream (Val Dwa Fem Law) entered Gehennom, on T:10233 20:38 [hdf-us] [nh362] Luxidream (Val Dwa Fem Law), 81174 points, T:10238, killed by an ogre king 20:39 <@Xaleth> Three wishes in a row... 20:39 By no means do you *need* a touchstone but for 10 weight... 20:39 <@carlarc> tragic 20:39 <@luxidream> wasn't enough 20:39 <@luxidream> got shit 0:1 wand 20:40 rip 20:40 PavelB: I'll pick one up if it's there, sure 20:43 <@luxidream> eh, time wasn't amazing anyway 20:44 [hdf-us] [nh362] Karnac (Pri Hum Mal Neu), 73071 points, T:11450, killed by a wraith 20:45 <@luxidream> also, 3 wishes in a row isn't amazing if you consider it's from the castle wand 😛 20:46 [hdf-us] [nh362] Luxidream (Val Dwa Fem Law) made her first wish - "blessed greased +3 silver dragon scale mail", on T:2058 20:49 [hdf-us] [nh362] Luxidream (Val Dwa Fem Law) had Excalibur thrown at her by some watery tart, on T:3121 20:49 -!- ProzacElf__ has joined #hardfought 20:50 @luxidream at least it wasn't a huge ogre thief 20:51 [hdf-us] [nh362] Luxidream (Val Dwa Fem Law), 2755 points, T:4038, quit 20:51 <@luxidream> welp 20:51 <@luxidream> nymph stole excalibur, then stepped on a polytrap and became a master lich 20:52 YANI: An artifact wand of striking called Dagon (after the dota item, not the mesopotamian god) which gets more powerful each time you charge it, with reduced chance of charge explosion 20:52 -!- ProzacElf_ has quit [Ping timeout: 246 seconds] 20:54 sounds incredibly unbalanced. I love it! 20:54 I take issue with the name because of dnethack conflicts 20:55 Oh does dnethack already have an item called that 20:55 a demon lord 20:55 Oh the mesopotamian god 20:55 a rather deadly demon lord if demo is to be believed 20:56 I felt it would be cool to have an artifact wand 20:57 bouquet: I felt it would be balanced by the fact that it will, in fact, eventually explode 20:57 that's fair. 20:57 <@luxidream> we didn't really need more clutter in the unaligned artifact pool though 20:57 <{Demo}1> hes not anywhere near as deadly as some others 20:57 [hdf-us] [fh] carl (carlarc) (Kni Dwa Fem Law) let a vampire lady genocide class '@', on T:43413 20:58 <{Demo}1> hes just not a good fellow to meelee 20:58 <@carlarc> that was spooky 20:58 Rip @carlarc 20:59 <@carlarc> luckily she wasn't permitted to genocide roles 20:59 <@carlarc> no more nurses though 20:59 [hdf-us] [nh362] Luxidream (Val Dwa Fem Law), 2672 points, T:2317, quit 20:59 !whereis carlarc 20:59 PavelB: [hdf-us] carlarc [fh]: (Kni Dwa Fem Law) T:43414 Gehennom level: 26 20:59 @carlarc can I ask how you're alive rn 21:00 https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/400474774440247317/535277151306645515/unknown.png 21:00 I see 21:01 Yeah, artifact wands are cool in principle 21:01 I'm thinking of blowing a wish on the Orb of Detection for backup MR for my Un cavelady. I'm quite a ways away from the quest still. Any better suggestions for a lawful cavelady? 21:01 @luxidream increasing the artifact pool size is probably a good thing? since it makes it harder to sacrifice forever but you know eventually you're guaranteed to get what you want 21:02 <@carlarc> magic mirror of merlin 21:02 <@carlarc> MR without 150 massive bulks 21:02 oh right! Forgot about that. 21:02 <@luxidream> I fail to see where adding more bad artifacts helps the player get what they want 21:03 <@luxidream> you wouldn't want this wand early in the game, it's as good as a normal wand of striking 21:03 it doesn't help the player get what they want. it means the player has to work with what the game provides them rather than sacfesting for grayswandir every game 21:03 and I'm considering this not in the context of the artifact wand suggestion, but independently 21:04 [hdf-us] [un] bouquet (Cav Hum Fem Law) wished for "blessed Magic Mirror of Merlin", on T:17010 21:04 @luxidream looking at the dagon icon it's pretty demonic looking so it's probably chaotic https://usercontent.irccloud-cdn.com/file/mfC6h82y/image.png 21:07 <@luxidream> I don't really think the artifact solution is to add goat artifacts that don't do anything to prevent players from farming forever 21:08 -!- tacco\unfoog has quit [] 21:08 <@luxidream> players don't have to waste tens of hours for grayswandir, this is why crowning actually gives you a weapon 21:09 Without changing sacrifice rules, it won't prevent you from farming forever, but it would make it unlikely enough that it's no longer worth it to continue farming vs using the artifacts you already got 21:09 <@luxidream> If you want players to work with what they have make getting an artifact weapon at least be better than not getting one at all 21:09 ... how can not getting one at all be better in any case than getting one? 21:11 like, even trollsbane > nothing 21:11 <@luxidream> if you get trollsbane it just interferes with your artiwishing and future sacrifice chances. improves your survivability by about zero 21:14 <@luxidream> it's also unfeasible to farm forever during the early game 21:15 <@luxidream> by increasing the artifact pool, you hurt early players who are trying to get something better than their starting weapon, while frustrating players who feel the need to grind even more for their precious grayswandir 21:16 <{Demo}1> hurt the harmers 21:18 [hdf-us] [nh362] Luxidream (Val Dwa Fem Law), 2417 points, T:4984, killed by an imp, while frozen by a monster's gaze 21:27 [hdf-us] [nh362] KaiHerd (Wiz Hum Fem Cha), 1876 points, T:3853, killed by a white unicorn 21:28 -!- Gaelan has quit [Quit: My MacBook has gone to sleep. ZZZzzz…] 21:29 @luxidream chances are, then, that increasing the artifact pool doesn't help anything if the sacrificing for artifacts system must remain the same. 21:30 <{Demo}1> remove artifacts 21:30 <{Demo}1> you dont need them 21:30 * aosdict zaps a wand of JPEG decompression at nethack 21:36 -!- tsadok has joined #hardfought 21:36 <@luxidream> I don't think every artifact has to be amazing, but cutting out banes for decent artifact weapons that are balanced around vanilla but not as strong as the brands/grayswandir would reduce grinding without breaking the game 21:38 blaspheme! 21:38 K2: Message from FIQ at 2019-01-16 19:59 EST: pushed update: warn for Knight honor code violations 21:38 dont touch my ogresmasher 21:41 -!- thorben has joined #hardfought 21:42 -!- Adeon_ has joined #hardfought 21:42 FIQhack updated (all servers) 21:45 -!- Gaelan has joined #hardfought 21:46 -!- benthor has quit [*.net *.split] 21:46 -!- eady has quit [*.net *.split] 21:46 -!- Adeon has quit [*.net *.split] 22:09 @luxidream What are your thoughts on providing non-quest non-weapon artifacts that are giftable? 22:10 Hopefully players would force themselves out of the mindset of saccing for something to hit monsters with. (The guarantee of getting weapons from saccing is probably a factor in why the melee game is so heavily focused on in vanilla.) 22:13 <@Tone> Does that increment the gift counter for chances of receiving a gift? 22:13 yes, it would be a gift. Weapons aren't special under this system. 22:14 Ditto for wishing. If you wish for one, it's obviously an artifact wish. 22:14 it would defeat the whole point if it didn't increment the gift counter 22:15 I got on this line of thinking by saying "if we nix all banes, how are they best replaced?" 22:15 <@Tone> Oh they would still be artifacts 22:15 <@luxidream> what kind of effects would you have in mind? 22:16 <@Tone> I was imagining the non-magic leather armors and other garbage I see livelogged at times 22:17 what I had in mind were the sort of artifacts I have on my YANI page 22:17 granted, a lot of those are weapons, so looking at the non-weapon ones. 22:19 <@carlarc> what about making some artifact spellbooks? 22:19 <@luxidream> scrivener is insane wow 22:19 <@luxidream> that would be crazy helpful 22:20 <@Tone> What if even the banes had a +dx damage modifier to all monsters? 22:21 @carlarc if you have any ideas I'll put them in the YANI archive 22:21 <@carlarc> hmm 22:21 <@Tone> Each one should be examined individually, but even if some of them had +d6 or so, it would be a nice find but not overpowered 22:22 <@luxidream> silver shoes and green thumb would both be good honestly 22:22 I should probably collect the artifact ideas on the main archive into their own section 22:23 <@Tone> YANI: Artifact spellbook: Magic marker writing always succeeds, has no read counter. Perhaps a higher ink penalty. Or maybe it starts blank and can only ever be written on once and never goes blank again. 22:24 <@luxidream> captain's hook needs an attack bonus or 0-turn autoswap to be useful 22:24 <@luxidream> *0-turn weapon swap 22:24 @Tone so basically you have one spell for the rest of the game? 22:25 -!- eraserhead97 has joined #hardfought 22:25 one spell of your choice to never forget I mean 22:26 that would intersect... interestingly with the artifact code, it would presumably be a blank book as its base type but when you write it it would become something else 22:26 <@Tone> aosdict: No the spell could be forgotten, although a forever-spell would be an interesting concept too. 22:27 <@Tone> The benefit would be that you can't fail writing a spell onto it 22:27 well, forgotten, yes, but always relearnable as long as you have the book 22:27 <@Tone> ah, yes I suppose that would be a side affect 22:27 <@Tone> or maybe it turns to dust instead of turning blank again 22:27 making it blankable would be OP obviously, get any spell as long as you have the marker 22:28 -!- MisteryMyra has joined #hardfought 22:28 <@Tone> being able to re-read it forever does seem like a nice side-effect though 22:29 <@Tone> Maybe it starts with a spell in it, and could be blanked only if unread 22:29 <@Tone> so if you don't like the starting spell you could put something else into it if you have a marker 22:30 Yeah, this would interact *really* weirdly with the artifact code 22:30 <@Tone> hehe 22:30 -!- MiseryMyra has quit [Ping timeout: 260 seconds] 22:33 I have a YANI in the archive consisting of an empty string and credited to me and mtf 22:33 <@Tone> YANI: Spellbooks that can be wielded to increase power regen, reduce spell power costs, or increase spellcasting chances. 22:33 <@Tone> only works if you aren't blind 22:34 -!- greqrg has quit [Quit: Leaving] 22:35 <@carlarc> jesus christ i accidentally pasted something i was going to copy here 22:35 luxidream might remember his "Akashic Records" artifact idea 22:35 <@carlarc> almost died, that is annoying 22:36 <@luxidream> oh yeah, I think it would have given the player monster detection, and applied for probing 22:37 <@luxidream> also would allow the player to predict the future for a while, as its invoke 22:37 <@carlarc> how would that work 22:38 <@luxidream> player would always hit, enemies roll at disadvantage 22:39 <@luxidream> oh I found it 22:40 <@luxidream> it's that, except if the player would be killed, they would avoid all attacks that round, ending the effect 22:42 <@luxidream> honestly it's not a real spellbook YANI though. it's just a spellbook for flavor 22:43 <@luxidream> hmm 22:43 it would actually square nicely with your other idea for encyclopedias, using that as a base item 22:44 <{Demo}1> make a spell of spelling 22:44 <{Demo}1> where it asks u a word and u have to spell it right 22:44 @tone why can't you invoke spellbooks while blind? They do it all the time on tv 22:45 You cast spelling. For what do you wish? the staff of aseulcpatius It seems like you are trying to wish for The Staff of Aesculapius. Wish for that? [yn] 22:46 -!- Adeon_ is now known as Adeon 23:13 [hdf-us] [nh362] eraserhead97 (Val Dwa Fem Law) killed Orcus, on T:25876 23:14 I'm OK with this, as long as I have to spell Jubilex 23:38 [hdf-us] [sp] k2 (Wiz Dwa Mal Neu) had a ring mail bestowed upon him by Thoth, on T:29113 23:39 [hdf-us] [nh362] eraserhead97 (Val Dwa Fem Law) destroyed Vlad the Impaler, on T:27113 23:39 [hdf-us] [nh362] eraserhead97 (Val Dwa Fem Law) acquired the Candelabrum of Invocation, on T:27115 23:59 -!- eraserhead97 has quit [Quit: Page closed]