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Wednesday, 8 October, 2008 by Nameless
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@ "Welcome to the grand opening of IzchakThe shopkeeper of the lighting shop in the town level of the
gnomish mines is a tribute to Izchak Miller, a founding member
of the NetHack development team and a personal friend of a large
number of us. Izchak contributed greatly to the game, coding a
large amount of the shopkeep logic (hence the nature of the tribute)
as well as a good part of the alignment system, the prayer code and
the rewrite of "hell" in the 3.1 release. Izchak was a professor
of Philosophy, who taught at many respected institutions, including
MIT and Stanford, and who also worked, for a period of time, at
Xerox PARC. Izchak was the first "librarian" of the NetHack project,
and was a founding member of the DevTeam, joining in 1986 while he
was working at the University of Pennsylvania (hence our former
mailing list address). Until the 3.1.3 release, Izchak carefully
kept all of the code synchronized and arbitrated disputes between
members of the development teams. Izchak Miller passed away at the
age of 58, in the early morning hours of April 1, 1994 from
complications due to cancer. We then dedicated NetHack 3.2 in his
memory.
                [ Mike Stephenson, for the NetHack DevTeam ]

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.'s Inn." 
Your feet are frozen
to the bed!         
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@ "Oh dear 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. the bedbugbears!" 
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d "... so it plays the jingle automatically? Fascinating." 
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@ "One. This is why I'm glad Dogley is a ... yeah."
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You're not supposed to get it, it's an inn-joke.

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Antheridium October 8, 2008 00:06
First comment: 17 May, 2007 442 comments written
Whatever.
Wellan October 8, 2008 01:16
First comment: 27 November, 2007 247 comments written
Eh. I sort of got it. Kinda.
@ October 8, 2008 03:02
First comment: 26 July, 2004 155 comments written
What?
Quint Sakugarne October 8, 2008 06:43
First comment: 1 January, 2008 233 comments written
E'd because, despite not getting it, the pun amuses me greatly.

Also, E'd for Elbereth... Even as they stepped over the threshold a single clear
voice rose in song.

        A Elbereth Gilthoniel,
        silivren penna miriel
        o menel aglar elenath!
        Na-chaered palan-diriel
        o galadhremmin ennorath,
        Fanuilos, le linnathon
        nef aear, si nef aearon!

Frodo halted for a moment, looking back. Elrond was in his
chair and the fire was on his face like summer-light upon the
trees. Near him sat the Lady Arwen. [...]
He stood still enchanted, while the sweet syllables of the
elvish song fell like clear jewels of blended word and melody.
"It is a song to Elbereth," said Bilbo. "They will sing that,
and other songs of the Blessed Realm, many times tonight.
Come on!"
[ The Fellowship of the Ring, by J.R.R. Tolkien ]

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., which is what I'd scrawl into the ground under a strange emotional mix of amusement and fear after reading this comic.
  October 8, 2008 08:34
First comment: 1 April, 2004 431 comments written
E for excellent puns
TJR October 8, 2008 13:44
First comment: 8 February, 2008 26 comments written
This comic is like maths: Hard, and you somehow have a hunch there is something to it. But it will take days of research to make it explicit.
Slowpoke October 8, 2008 18:00
First comment: 27 February, 2007 239 comments written
Sorry, until I get it, it's a P.
Quint Sakugarne October 8, 2008 20:18
First comment: 1 January, 2008 233 comments written
Slowpoke: You're not supposed to get it; it's an inn-joke.
TK October 8, 2008 21:50
First comment: 11 August, 2007 69 comments written
I think the joke is entirely contained in the caption-thingy...

And it's not half bad!
Slowpoke October 8, 2008 22:47
First comment: 27 February, 2007 239 comments written
One can read my comment, followed by Quint's, in a never-ending loop.

I get the caption thingy of course. Few liked my Seinfeld comic a while back, which was a similar theme ("jokes that don't work in NetHack"), so I guess I should be more forgiving.
Antheridium October 8, 2008 22:55
First comment: 17 May, 2007 442 comments written
I know I'm supposed to look at the caption. I just don't want to.
psly4mne October 8, 2008 23:33
First comment: 3 October, 2008 2 comments written
Huh?
Simon Richard Clarkstone October 12, 2008 00:38
First comment: 6 February, 2005 18 comments written
An in(n)-joke amongst whom? I don't get it either.
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