the only plus side really is you're guaranteed an altar without a priest
― Mordy, Tuesday, 31 July 2018 22:02 (five years ago) link
Have a new laptop, just downloaded the new(est) Nethack and had no idea. Thanks guys!
No shopkeepers: this doesn't feel right. At all.
― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 31 July 2018 22:04 (five years ago) link
https://cohost.org/morayati/post/838182-there-s-also-code-in
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Friday, 13 January 2023 19:16 (one year ago) link
That made me want to go look at the Nethack code on Github again. It's always a bit fun, because everything's quite explicit, not hidden behind layers of abstraction like it tends to be in enterprise software.I still haven't really tried to get into this game, but the detail of this comment in the code really appeals to me:
* 3.7: New moon is no longer overridden by carrying a * lizard corpse. Having the moon's impact on terrestrial * activity be affected by carrying a dead critter felt * silly. * * That behavior dated to when there were no corpse objects * yet; "dead lizard" was a distinct item. With a lizard * corpse, hero can eat it to survive petrification and * probably retain a partly eaten corpse for future use. * * Maintaining foodless conduct during a new moon might * become a little harder. Clearing out cockatrice nests * could become quite a bit harder.
― Øystein, Wednesday, 18 January 2023 07:06 (one year ago) link