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Friday, 6 June, 2008
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K "Customs inspection. Occupation?"
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@ "Professional cynic."
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K "Oh really?
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Rating

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Average rating: Fair
Number of ratings: 18

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Wellan June 6, 2008 00:02
First comment: 27 November, 2007 247 comments written
Funny, but rated fair, because it's not really a NetHack joke...
Slowpoke June 6, 2008 00:06
First comment: 27 February, 2007 239 comments written
I'm not sure what this has to to with Nethack, really...
Slowpoke June 6, 2008 00:07
First comment: 27 February, 2007 239 comments written
Wow, I must type really slowly. :)
Antheridium June 6, 2008 01:11
First comment: 17 May, 2007 442 comments written
Yeah...
SomeoneElse June 6, 2008 03:19
First comment: 11 September, 2006 143 comments written
The point of this webcomic is to be about a game. Otherwise it'll be just like every other webcomic, except with no art. Mehh. Rated fair anyway.
Nameless Fairy June 6, 2008 09:21
First comment: 26 September, 2007 22 comments written
Oh dear Kos"I am not a coward!" he cried. "I'll dare Thieves' House
and fetch you Krovas' head and toss it with blood a-drip at
Vlana's feet. I swear that, witness me, Kos the god of
dooms, by the brown bones of Nalgron my father and by his
sword Graywand here at my side!"
[ Swords and Deviltry, by Fritz Leiber ]

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, it's Shoe with ASCII graphics.
Nameless June 6, 2008 12:07
First comment: 29 December, 2004 281 comments written
@ "YaThe arrow of choice of the samurai, ya are made of very
straight bamboo, and are tipped with hardened steel.

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really!"
Antheridium June 6, 2008 12:55
First comment: 17 May, 2007 442 comments written
Meh, I think we're being a little overly harsh. Occasionally these comics have to stray outside the boundaries of Nethack; otherwise we'd run out of fresh material. In fact, we've had comics that didn't have anything to do with Nethack before and 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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OK. So we ought to cut the guy a little slack; the only problem I can see with this one is that it does in fact feel a little too much like a drab newspaper comic. And yes, you're right, that's not what we come here for, and it feels out of place. But what DO we come here for, anyway?
SQLGuru June 6, 2008 13:36
First comment: 23 October, 2006 77 comments written
We come hear for 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 ]

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jokes, obviously. :)
gneek June 6, 2008 16:55
First comment: 18 January, 2008 159 comments written
It's not that bad.

You could easily kill the kopThe Kops are a brilliant concept. To take a gaggle of inept
policemen and display them over and over again in a series of
riotously funny physical punishments plays equally well to the
peanut gallery and the expensive box seats. People hate cops.
Even people who have never had anything to do with cops hate
them. Of course, we count on them to keep order and to protect
us when we need protecting, and we love them on television shows
in which they have nerves of steel and hearts of gold, but in
the abstract, as a nation, collectively we hate them. They are
too much like high school principals. We're very happy to see
their pants fall down, and they look good to us with pie on
their faces. The Keystone Kops turn up--and they get punished
for it, as they crash into each other, fall down, and suffer
indignity after indignity. Here is pure movie satisfaction.

The Kops are very skillfully presented. The comic originality
and timing in one of their chase scenes requires imagination
to think up, talent to execute, understanding of the medium,
and, of course, raw courage to perform. The Kops are madmen
presented as incompetents, and they're madmen rushing around
in modern machines. What's more, the machines they were operating
in their routines were newly invented and not yet experienced
by the average moviegoer. (In the early days of automobiles,
it was reported that there were only two cars registered in all
of Kansas City, and they ran into each other. There is both
poetry and philosophy in this fact, but most of all, there is
humor. Sennett got the humor.)
        [ Silent Stars, by Jeanine Basinger ]

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though...
Or should I say the kustoms inspektor?
@ June 6, 2008 18:48
First comment: 26 July, 2004 155 comments written
Oh no... almost a week of excellent comics. Still a funny joke, but with next to no NH parallels... meh... F
TJR June 6, 2008 19:43
First comment: 8 February, 2008 26 comments written
Only a Nethack bureaucrat would dare ask someone with a c corpse "Oh really?"
Blackened June 6, 2008 19:58
First comment: 14 May, 2008 31 comments written
Generally not a bad joke, and there surely 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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`not so nethack-related' strips before, but still... Rated F.
@ June 7, 2008 04:05
First comment: 26 July, 2004 155 comments written
The problem isn't that it wasn't nethack-related... some jokes outside NH are good... but a joke that could be done at any other webcomic and still regarded the same doesn't really go well here. Besides, it didn't feel at all like NH.
Ren June 23, 2008 16:40
First comment: 2 April, 2008 35 comments written
Rated Fair for not calling it Kustoms.
MadDawg2552 October 10, 2008 16:58
First comment: 6 October, 2008 69 comments written
#1: If the doorThrough me you pass into the city of woe:
Through me you pass into eternal pain:
Through me among the people lost for aye.
Justice the founder of my fabric mov'd:
To rear me was the task of power divine,
Supremest wisdom, and primeval love.
Before me things create were none, save things
Eternal, and eternal I endure.
All hope abandon ye who enter here.
        [ The Inferno, from The Divine Comedy of Dante
                Alighieri, translated by H.F. Cary ]

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is still in place, those boulders are useless as Dudley can't move at an angle anyway.

#2: If the doorThrough me you pass into the city of woe:
Through me you pass into eternal pain:
Through me among the people lost for aye.
Justice the founder of my fabric mov'd:
To rear me was the task of power divine,
Supremest wisdom, and primeval love.
Before me things create were none, save things
Eternal, and eternal I endure.
All hope abandon ye who enter here.
        [ The Inferno, from The Divine Comedy of Dante
                Alighieri, translated by H.F. Cary ]

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is gone, those boulders are useless as Dudley can just push them out of the way. Well... he can push the bottom one out of the way.

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