Dudley's dungeon -- Wednesday, 5 November, 2008

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Average rating: Fair
Number of ratings: 13

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Slowpoke	November 5, 2008 00:53
First comment: 27 February, 2007	239 comments written
Great, a sequel to a comic that depended on knowing a NH tournament deity, connected only by a name. Thank goodness for Google. :)
Wellan	November 5, 2008 00:59
First comment: 27 November, 2007	247 comments written
I must say that this is going to confuse the heck out of anyone who didn't read yesterday's comic. Nevertheless, it's funny. "Mind the size of a planet, and you ask me to engrave "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."?"
fef	November 5, 2008 01:43
First comment: 5 November, 2008	1 comments written
Eveb vetter!
Slowpoke	November 5, 2008 07:00
First comment: 27 February, 2007	239 comments written
I apologize for this off-topic comment, but in lightStrange creatures formed from energy rather than matter, lights are given to self-destructive behavior when battling foes. 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. of the election tonight I would like to recommend the following link to over a year ago: http://www.nicolaas.net/dudley/index.php?f=20070601 While not a stellar comic, it still was a bit ahead of a certain curve. I particularly like, in retrospect, the comment, "Being in Britain, this comic meant nothing to me."
TJR	November 5, 2008 15:33
First comment: 8 February, 2008	26 comments written
please make future comics intellegible.
motty	November 5, 2008 17:14
First comment: 22 November, 2006	9 comments written
Brain the size of a planet. Dammit.
eue	November 5, 2008 19:03
First comment: 17 October, 2008	7 comments written
If it wasn't for "mind" instead of "brain", I would rate it E.
Nameless Fairy	November 5, 2008 23:26
First comment: 26 September, 2007	22 comments written
This is why you can't make a reference the sole content of your joke, people.
Quint Sakugarne	November 6, 2008 20:50
First comment: 1 January, 2008	233 comments written
I don't get it. Not rated because I don't get it.
Slowpoke	November 7, 2008 00:40
First comment: 27 February, 2007	239 comments written
Quint, do a google search on "Mind the size of a planet" (or, replace Mind with Brain as has been pointed out here), combine what you find with a glance at the previous day's Dudley comic, and see what you come up with. More fun than just being told, I hope. BTW, I was worried the queue was empty when I saw Dion had posted a comic, and now it's looking true. :( (Newt(kinds of) small animal, like a lizard, which spends most of its time in the water. [ Oxford's Student's Dictionary of Current English ] "Fillet of a fenny snake, In the cauldron boil and bake; Eye of newt and toe of frog, Wool of bat and tongue of dog, Adder's fork and blind-worm's sting, Lizard's leg and howlet's wing, For a charm of powerful trouble, Like a hell-broth boil and bubble." [ Macbeth, by William Shakespeare ] 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. tool?)
Quint Sakugarne	November 7, 2008 08:30
First comment: 1 January, 2008	233 comments written
OHHHHH. Mediocre. Needs more joke and less obscure reference. But then again, references are always subjective.
Worthy one	November 7, 2008 09:11
First comment: 7 November, 2008	1 comments written
You aren't worthy nethackers if you don't know HHGTTG.
T-Jack	November 7, 2008 15:30
First comment: 16 March, 2008	52 comments written
I completely agree with The Worthy One. I actually thought yesterday's comic was a H2G2 reference. Until I read the discussion, that is.
Nameless Fairy	November 7, 2008 23:04
First comment: 26 September, 2007	22 comments written
One could argue that a worthy Nethacker must be familiar with, let's say, Dune. Would it then be funny to make a strip that goes, "Here is a situation from Dune, but with @'s"?
Quint Sakugarne	November 7, 2008 23:19
First comment: 1 January, 2008	233 comments written
I've seen the movie. Didn't much like it. Though I really need to catch up on my fiction reading. However, my apologies, HHGTTG is not at the top of my list. On the other hand, I could also argue that Nethackers ought to know other freeware games such as Cave Story and La-Mulana. Doesn't necessarily mean that they'll make good comics either.
Quint Sakugarne	November 7, 2008 23:23
First comment: 1 January, 2008	233 comments written
By the way, I feel bad about criticizing Dion's own comic. Dion, you're a really awesome person for making this site and inspiring us to make comics and hosting them. Nethack really deserves a webcomic, especially given its huge, diverse, and long-time following, and you're the one to do it. As nerdy and as insanely difficult as it is, Nethack is still one of the best games ever. That said, though, your style of humor doesn't seem to appeal that well to me, for some reason. Seems that some people disagree with me, especially about your early comics, but I rarely see them these days and they're usually less-than-overwhelmingly-funny requests for new strips. Then again, I admit I should get cracking on my now year-old file of Dudley's Dungeon strip ideas.
Antheridium	November 9, 2008 17:36
First comment: 17 May, 2007	442 comments written
The only characteristics that define a 'worthy nethacker' are that he's clever and nerdy. Although it is helpful to know where your towelThe Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy has a few things to say on the subject of towels. A towel, it says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have. Partly it has great practical value. You can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded beaches of Santraginus V, inhaling the heady sea vapors; you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine so redly on the desert world of Kakrafoon; use it to sail a miniraft down down the slow heavy River Moth; wet it for use in hand-to-hand combat; wrap it round your head to ward off noxious fumes or avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (a mind-bogglingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can't see it, it can't see you - daft as a brush, but very very ravenous); you can wave your towel in emergencies as a distress signal, and of course dry yourself off with it if it still seems to be clean enough. [ The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams ] 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. is. And yeah, keep up the good work, Dion. I think we're all grateful that you created and still maintain this; at least, I like to think we are.
Tonya "knows where the towel is" Hawkes	November 9, 2008 18:06
First comment: 9 November, 2008	1 comments written
Antheridium, I think you missed an 's'. > she's clever and nerdy.
@	November 11, 2008 03:50
First comment: 26 July, 2004	155 comments written
I CAN HAZ NEW COMIX PLZ???
eue	November 11, 2008 11:10
First comment: 17 October, 2008	7 comments written
What's this? Six days without comics? What's going on?
T-Jack	November 11, 2008 14:43
First comment: 16 March, 2008	52 comments written
Oh man, that can mean only two things: something big, or nothing at all.
TJR	November 11, 2008 15:14
First comment: 8 February, 2008	26 comments written
That probably means time to contribute. I whish my own active sense of humor wereIn 1573, the Parliament of Dole published a decree, permitting the inhabitants of the Franche-Comte to pursue and kill a were-wolf or loup-garou, which infested that province, "notwithstanding the existing laws concerning the chase." The people were empowered to "assemble with javelins, halberds, pikes, arquebuses and clubs, to hunt and pursue the said were-wolf in all places where they could find it, and to take, burn, and kill it, without incurring any fine or other penalty." The hunt seems to have been successful, if we may judge from the fact that the same tribunal in the following year condemned to be burned a man named Giles Garnier, who ran on all fours in the forest and fields and devoured little children, "even on Friday." The poor lycanthrope, it appears, had as slight respect for ecclesiastical feasts as the French pig, which was not restrained by any feeling of piety from eating infants on a fast day. [ The History of Vampires, by Dudley Wright ] 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. good enough.

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