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I went without food.

I was an atheist.

I never hit with a wielded weapon.

I was a pacifist.

I was illiterate.

I never genocided any monsters.

I never polymorphed an object.

I never changed form.

I used no wishes.

If you had a wish, what would it be?

If I didn't have one already? A blessed amulet of reflection, it's an absolute must-have.

I've got a mirror I could let you have, if that would help !

spot;1296712 wrote: I went without food.

I was an atheist.

I never hit with a wielded weapon.

I was a pacifist.

I was illiterate.

I never genocided any monsters.

I never polymorphed an object.

I never changed form.

I used no wishes.


This sounds like an epitaph. If it is not for you, spot, then for whom?

along-for-the-ride;1296727 wrote: This sounds like an epitaph. If it is not for you, spot, then for whom?


It was mine when I ran Nethack earlier.

Back when all my children were under ten I gave them a few selected games to play. Chuckie Egg was one, Elite, and Nethack another. You can picture this bunch of around-six-year-olds getting to grips with arithmetic and physics playing the first two. They had a construction kit called The Incredible Machine as well.

Anyway, they got collectively good but they never managed to complete Nethack until last year Geoffrey announced that he'd Ascended. The others were agog. Finally one of them had managed it. Eleanor still runs up Chuckie Egg for fun and recently she's had another shot at Nethack. I like the notion that their games from back then still work just like new.

There's another some of them still run, now I remember - a set of signalling simulations that let them run a signal box on various steam-era stations, using the timetables that were in use at the time. Kings Cross 1954 is the best of those, Bath Green Park 1961 and Plymouth North Road 1955 are neat, you have to remember not to send heavy engines over the Tamar because Brunel's bridge couldn't take them. I keep a copy on my machine too, it's engrossing. The trick is not to hold up any arrivals or departures during each shift.

Just in time for Christmas! An update to NetHack has been released!

As a computer game, it's still one of the best I've ever played.