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Tuesday, 30 January, 2007 by Rpresser
                    
                    
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@ "Oh no, look at 'em all ..."
It hits! It hits! It
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@ "gdb thisroom"
                    
                    
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@ "There, that's better."
If only it were that easy.


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Fathead January 30, 2007 00:51
First comment: 1 April, 2006 1136 comments written
Right, what's gdb stand for, eh?
Grunt January 30, 2007 01:26
First comment: 25 July, 2006 36 comments written
gdb is the GNU Debugger. He of course just debugged the room. :D
Alcari January 30, 2007 02:08
First comment: 11 September, 2006 93 comments written
woohoo, I actually got the pun the time around :)

though a refence to gdb would have been usefull to those who don't use gnu.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gdb
Alcari January 30, 2007 02:14
First comment: 11 September, 2006 93 comments written
still, they're only gridbugs, it's not like they're lifethreatening monsters like Newts.
rpresser January 30, 2007 03:49
First comment: 6 October, 2005 51 comments written
Sigh. I made the corridor too long and it screwed up the next line of the dungeon. Lesson learned.
E January 30, 2007 06:55
First comment: 2 September, 2004 34 comments written
Why not use soldierThe soldiers of Yendor are well-trained in the art of war,
many trained by the Wizard himself. Some say the soldiers
are explorers who were unfortunate enough to be captured,
and put under the Wizard's spell. Those who have survived
encounters with soldiers say they travel together in platoons,
and are fierce fighters. Because of the load of their combat
gear, however, one can usually run away from them, and doing
so is considered a wise thing.

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ants? And.. "it hits"? Did Dudley turn off verbose?
Nameless January 30, 2007 09:16
First comment: 29 December, 2004 281 comments written
It's funny... does it matter?
A January 30, 2007 09:18
First comment: 24 October, 2006 70 comments written
Good idea for "story", but as E said above: "it hits" is wrong as Dudley can see the monsters.
Roger Barnett January 30, 2007 16:24
First comment: 7 April, 2006 143 comments written
That is a vile and terrible pun. I approve wholeheartedly :-)
rpresser February 4, 2007 07:30
First comment: 6 October, 2005 51 comments written
I used "it hits" instead of "the grid bugThese electronically based creatures are not native to this
universe. They appear to come from a world whose laws of
motion are radically different from ours.

Tron looked to his mate and pilot. "I'm going to check on
the beam connection, Yori. You two can keep a watch out for
grid bugs." Tron paced forward along the slender catwalk
that still seemed awfully insubstantial to Flynn, though he
knew it to be amazingly sturdy. He gazed after Tron, asking
himself what in the world a grid bug was, and hoping that the
beam connection -- to which he'd given no thought whatsoever
until this moment -- was healthy and sound."
[ Tron, novel by Brian Daley, story by Steven Lisberger ]

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hits" in order to cramIf you want to know what cram is, I can only say that I don't
know the recipe; but it is biscuitish, keeps good indefinitely,
is supposed to be sustaining, and is certainly not entertaining,
being in fact very uninteresting except as a chewing
exercise. It was made by the Lake-men for long journeys.
        [ The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien ]

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three hits into the same panel. Didn't stop to think that he can see them.
Didn't use soldierThe soldiers of Yendor are well-trained in the art of war,
many trained by the Wizard himself. Some say the soldiers
are explorers who were unfortunate enough to be captured,
and put under the Wizard's spell. Those who have survived
encounters with soldiers say they travel together in platoons,
and are fierce fighters. Because of the load of their combat
gear, however, one can usually run away from them, and doing
so is considered a wise thing.

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ants because although they are bugs they don't have the word "bug" in their name. You're right though, a mixture of several kinds of bugs would have been more interesting.
Grognor April 22, 2007 08:44
First comment: 4 April, 2007 1161 comments written
The problem is that grid bugs are no more bugs than bugbears.

Also, I think it could have been better if NetHack 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 ]

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somehow intertwined within it. Panel 2 could have said "Cast gdb" instead of "gdb thisroom".

Good.
1338h4x May 12, 2007 04:15
First comment: 19 September, 2006 102 comments written
Grid bugs are bugs. Try looking at their tile mode sprite.
@ January 8, 2008 02:12
First comment: 26 July, 2004 155 comments written
grid bugs don't hit, they bite

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