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Re: Rotten Food Rations

damer...@chiark.greenend.org.uk (David Damerell) — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 13:48:44 UT

Quoting Janis Papanagnou <Janis_Papanag...@hotmail.com> :
Corpses are one thing - foodrats and other non-corpses (ie, don't always
become tainted with time) are another.
eat.c line 1986 onwards:
if(otmp == victual.piece) {
/* If they weren't able to choke, they don't suddenly become able to

Re: Found (not wished) magic lamp with no oil - what the?

janis_papanag...@hotmail.com (Janis Papanagnou) — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 11:59:46 UT

Yes, that's a bad habit with companies as well; they close all ports
but for web access. But since they run their networks they rule what
folks is allowed to do and what not. The accessibility of available
news servers, OTOH, seem not to be a problem from my perspective.
The web browser is a very limited engine, you buy inherent restrictions

Re: Found (not wished) magic lamp with no oil - what the?

jean-yves.moyen+n...@ens-lyon.org (Jym) — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 11:25:56 UT

See RFC 1855, also know as netiquette.
[link]

Re: Found (not wished) magic lamp with no oil - what the?

soywei...@gmail.com (Soyweiser) — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 11:17:28 UT

On Aug 20, 4:39 am, David Damerell <damer...@chiark.greenend.org. uk>
wrote:
This helps? I'll do that then. I don't really know all the proper
groupsiquette rules, that is what I wanted to know. I really didn't
want to start a holy war against/for groups.

Re: Rotten Food Rations

janis_papanag...@hotmail.com (Janis Papanagnou) — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 08:58:30 UT

I *think* that I ate a corpse where the rotten condition triggered
and had that condition triggered again when eating the remains, yes.
(But memory is a strange beast.) And I couldn't identify code that
shows different; so references are welcome.
eat.c:
1307 if (!tp && mnum != PM_LIZARD && mnum != PM_LICHEN &&

Re: YAAP - easy ascension, as advertised

rekruta...@gazeta.pl — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 08:09:07 UT

You are right, i was typing too fast, of course i was playing dwarf. I
should spend more time editing my YAAP, but i really wanted to post it
as
soon as possible, i hope this is understandable :-) It's my second
ascension and I still got really excited by this. Most surprising is,
that
i found this particular game to be easy. For years of playing this

Re: Rotten Food Rations

damer...@chiark.greenend.org.uk (David Damerell) — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 03:17:59 UT

Quoting David Damerell <damer...@chiark.greenend.org. uk>:
Excuse the followup-to-own-article, but; as far as I can make out, this
applies only if you resume eating the last piece of food you ate. This is
annoying because I had in mind a cunning tactic involving saving
half-nibbled pieces of food for the endgame where you _really_ don't want

Re: Rotten Food Rations

damer...@chiark.greenend.org.uk (David Damerell) — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 03:07:41 UT

Quoting Janis Papanagnou <Janis_Papanag...@hotmail.com> :
Think back - has it _ever_ happened to you? One in 49 food items would
mean it would come up in a typical ascension, and very many times in
one's playing history. There'd be a bogus player belief that if the first
bite was rotten the subsequent bites were more/less likely to be.

Re: +25 rubber hose named Rodneybane

damer...@chiark.greenend.org.uk (David Damerell) — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 03:00:22 UT

Quoting Ray Dillinger <b...@sonic.net>:
Persistence on the part of a farmer or extinctionist can readily create
such items.
Player-monsters on the Astral Plane get special gear; they can get armour
with an enchantment up to +7, and weapons up to +8.

Re: Found (not wished) magic lamp with no oil - what the?

damer...@chiark.greenend.org.uk (David Damerell) — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 02:39:36 UT

Quoting Soyweiser <soywei...@gmail.com>:
Then trim the bloody quoted text, willya?

Re: Taking a dump

animalma...@petersbackyard.org (AnimalMagic) — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 02:00:39 UT

You most certainly can select / copy / paste /etc with an XP or Vista
"command line VDM".
You can also hit print screen, and paste it into MS Paint, then crop and
save, then use OCR on it! :-]

[OT] Re: Found (not wished) magic lamp with no oil - what the?

jtfjd...@hotmail.com.invalid (Jukka Lahtinen) — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 16:00:11 UT

There are some independent news servers you can use regardless of your
ISP. I am sure SOMEBODY (but not me) could give a list..
If a browser were the only way to reach newsgroups, I probably wouldn't
bother.
No need necessarlily to install a reader anywhere yourself if you have ssh
access to somewhere where a reader is installed..

Re: Taking a dump

dfrey...@yahoo.com (Doug Freyburger) — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 16:06:21 UT

Or right-click select-all then right-click copy. You can then paste
into notepad and cut out the parts you don't want. Sometimes this
is a bit quicker.

Re: Now where'd I get a grenade?

carlhnel...@gmail.com (Carl) — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 15:47:10 UT

[snip]
The possibilities include:
someone threw one at you,
the egg was identified by a spell, or
you saw one hatch earlier.
Maybe there are other ways too.

Re: Taking a dump

meagen.im...@yahoo.com — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 14:15:18 UT

Ah, that did it! thanks! YAAP time.
Meagen