Dudley's dungeon -- Wednesday, 10 January, 2007

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Average rating: Good
Number of ratings: 18

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G	January 10, 2007 03:19
First comment: 5 October, 2005	82 comments written
Odd! Neither my husband or I had voted on Dudley's today, but before I voted there was one mediocre and two excellent. I voted good and now there is one good and two excellent. Whose vote did I replace?!
Kernigh	January 10, 2007 05:45
First comment: 6 April, 2005	349 comments written
Random Number GodGoddesses and Gods operate in ones, threesomes, or whole pantheons of nine or more (see Religion). Most of them claim to have made the world, and this is indeed a likely claim in the case of threesomes or pantheons: Fantasyland does have the air of having been made by a committee. But all Goddesses and Gods, whether they say they made the world or not, have very detailed short-term plans for it which they are determined to carry out. Consequently they tend to push people into the required actions by the use of coincidence or Prophecy, or just by narrowing down your available choices of what to do next: if a deity is pushing you, things will go miserably badly until there is only one choice left to you. [ The Tough Guide to Fantasyland, by Diana Wynne Jones ] Copyright (c) 1994, 1995, 1996 by the NetHack Development Team Copyright (c) 1994 by Boudewijn Wayers NetHack may be freely redistributed. See license for details. decreed that when some readers of this webcomic elect to use single letters as their names while rating, there being exactly 52 such names, then when there are at least 10 such readers, then the chance of collision is greater than the probability of !rn2(2). There is an acknowledged collision when two different readers of this webcomic used the same name "D". I observe that today we have one good vote and two excellent votes. I propose that above poster "G" employed a birthday attack to replace the mediocre vote with a good vote: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_attack I suggest that the use of one-letter names is overly prone to collisions from birthday attack. As an alternative, I mulled the use of the Mersenne Twister of period (int) pow( 2, 19937 ) - 1 to rename everyone to random and unique strings. An easier workaround may be to learn Chinese: http://www.nicolaas.net/dudley/index.php?f=20040510 As of now, I act not to rename myself, but I elect to vote excellent, and observe that my vote replaces not any of the three earlier votes.
nordenjolt@gmail.com	January 10, 2007 07:44
First comment: 3 February, 2005	7 comments written
The comic is good, but Kernighs comment is excellent. How do I rate a comment?
Alcari	January 10, 2007 07:45
First comment: 11 September, 2006	93 comments written
for those to lazy: Newton's Third Law states that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.
Ristipisto-Risto	January 10, 2007 09:47
First comment: 25 January, 2006	52 comments written
Cool. Took me a while to catch it, tho'.
A	January 10, 2007 12:08
First comment: 24 October, 2006	70 comments written
hm, time to change name maybe... Anyway I vote Excellent
Luos	January 10, 2007 15:45
First comment: 13 November, 2005	29 comments written
I don't really like it... Anyway: while by trying to go S, the @ goes NE? It doesn't seem to be an "opposite" reaction...
Dav	January 10, 2007 16:07
First comment: 26 June, 2004	147 comments written
I think Newton's 3rd law is attacking him because he's violating physics.
Eemeli	January 10, 2007 16:12
First comment: 2 March, 2005	143 comments written
Luos: the VampireThe Oxford English Dictionary is quite unequivocal: _vampire_ - "a preternatural being of a malignant nature (in the original and usual form of the belief, a reanimated corpse), supposed to seek nourishment, or do harm, by sucking the blood of sleeping persons. ..." Copyright (c) 1994, 1995, 1996 by the NetHack Development Team Copyright (c) 1994 by Boudewijn Wayers NetHack may be freely redistributed. See license for details. apparently acts as a solid wall, bouncing Dudley to the right (clever use of a V). I'll have to vote mediocre because the comic hasn't seen Newton's third law. (It'd be quite hard for Dudley to throwblow... enough air to the south to get north himself and the VampireThe Oxford English Dictionary is quite unequivocal: _vampire_ - "a preternatural being of a malignant nature (in the original and usual form of the belief, a reanimated corpse), supposed to seek nourishment, or do harm, by sucking the blood of sleeping persons. ..." Copyright (c) 1994, 1995, 1996 by the NetHack Development Team Copyright (c) 1994 by Boudewijn Wayers NetHack may be freely redistributed. See license for details. would have to move a square northwest.)
Roger Barnett	January 10, 2007 16:49
First comment: 7 April, 2006	143 comments written
I can just hear the voice of Scotty now... "Ye canna change the laws of physics!"
Mikoangelo	January 10, 2007 16:54
First comment: 19 October, 2005	82 comments written
I kinda suspected about the vampireThe Oxford English Dictionary is quite unequivocal: _vampire_ - "a preternatural being of a malignant nature (in the original and usual form of the belief, a reanimated corpse), supposed to seek nourishment, or do harm, by sucking the blood of sleeping persons. ..." Copyright (c) 1994, 1995, 1996 by the NetHack Development Team Copyright (c) 1994 by Boudewijn Wayers NetHack may be freely redistributed. See license for details. aspect, but I think it's just a bit too vague to let you be sure. And I think it should just have moved to the west.
Fathead	January 12, 2007 03:01
First comment: 1 April, 2006	1136 comments written
Smart, but not funny.
Grognor	April 21, 2007 23:40
First comment: 4 April, 2007	1161 comments written
Very funny indeed.

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