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The reasons why players might look down on savescumming or similar kinds of scumming vs. streakscumming strike me as very different. When players do things like savescum, a lot of times they're inhibiting themselves from becoming better at the game. Sure, when I finally won Nethack when I was a kid,...

Oh, good. You didn't want to win with that character anyway.

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Why not. Hopefully I won't lose interest this time.

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Qaz does make Vault:5 extra Fun thanks to the noise.

You also won't see the amazing results from its abilities until your invo is closer to max.

I'd worry about fighting and armor before training more invo for a while, though.

Nice +21 slaying :D Disaster area in Zig is a joke ! Hahaha yeah. And then add in Song of Slaying for the zigs... and... yep. Roflstomp. It really is. I mean, it takes enough piety that I didn't want to spam it on every floor, but all I needed was one or two casts... and then everything was pretty ...

I've wanted this for a while. Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.15.0-16-gce31824 (webtiles) character file. 10990901 Nemora the End of an Era (level 27, 192/199 HPs) Began as a Gargoyle Fighter on Sept 1, 2014. Was the Champion of Qazlal. Escaped with the Orb ... and 15 runes on Sept 5, 2014! The g...

I do want to add that on the HECj I've been playing, I used Fire Storm and cleared V:5 without more than a couple small hitches, but I did enough other stuff that I was XL 27 first, and I was using a combination of Fire Storm and Tornado. I did have to stair dance a little (that's normal), and there...

I usually like to do as much Crypt and Elf as I can before I venture into Vault:5. I haven't found myself in a position where I'd rather go do slime before it too, but it's something I'd consider as well if I were worried about things. But, basically, I like to set myself up with enough XP that Vaul...

I actually love Don't Starve. I played it extensively back in Beta. I've been meaning to get back to it now that it's been out for a while, but the mood hasn't struck me yet. It's as much a roguelike as, say, Dwarf Fortress is, in my opinion, but not everyone would agree with that.

Qazlal would be underwhelming for endgame when you're only at 9.1 Invo, yes. At 27 Invo, upheaval can take out most of the really nasty tormentors within a couple uses. And disaster area can obliterate large packs of enemies when you get surrounded. I'm sure getting Invo up into its 20s, at least, w...

Congrats!

I had some great success getting full invo with a MiFi of Qaz too- it's amazing how much damage those abilities can do. ...And not to mention how goddamn fun the combo is.

I know you're bent on making DEWz work, but if you want to experience the Fun of random mutations, I'd suggest trying some Demonspawn over eating purple chunks. The problem with your decision is the risk/reward factor. Yes, sometimes you'll get good sets of mutations like you did in that one game, b...

Unless something has changed since I heard it last, reflection is the worst shield brand. I wouldn't bother wasting your EA scrolls on it. If you're not planning on going for a 2H, I don't see much point in dumping more skill into M&F, especially when you could be using that to get more armor, o...

Trust me, having a strong Latajang is good for you. :) This might be even better for me. :) X - the +8 trident of the Octopus King (weapon) {venom, rElec rPois MR+} (You took it off a frost giant on level 2 of the Depths) It poisons the flesh of those it strikes. It insulates you from electricity. ...

I've lost a lot of DEs because I didn't have a good backup for when I run out of mana. I've cruised a long just fine for forever, and then all of a sudden... nope.

Trust me, having a strong Latajang is good for you.

Nicely done. I have yet to win with more than 3 and honestly doubt it will happen any time soon (even if I wasn't being distracted by xcom and other games.) Qazial seems like a tough god to get online early as you have to wait quite a bit before the good abilities are available. Then again once you...

Getting level 9 spells castable early is the only way you can be powerful enough to win as a caster.

I did! But as I went into there, I went for a strategy whose main goal was to abuse the fuck out of Qaz's abilities. While I didn't use the abilities as often as I would have, say, used Okawaru's Heroism (you can't use Qaz's abilities that much because they are piety sucks) they were frequent go-to'...

Congrats.. I'm trying Qazlal for the first time, but I'm not loving her, i'm finding the random cloud spawning to be a bit annoying because its not so quick to distinguish whats going on the screen for me. Were you with Qazlal the whole game? Nice to know a 15 rune win is doable with her (or him) I...

I imagine there are simply far fewer women than men who experience the kind of prolonged isolation necessary to seek out and then attempt to master a game like Crawl. So for you "not isolated" means "never, ever, any alone time"? "prolonged" This isn't any better than ...

Oh. Holy wow. I bet you could take V:5. I'd definitely do all those other things you mentioned first. And then if you want to take on Vaults, I would want more invocations first- when I did it on my MiFi, my Invocations was already almost maxed, so I blew everything up without too much trouble. Disa...

Might I suggest not responding to Zoopy's posts? I see a lot of white supremacy/MRA mentality in them, and I don't think engaging with that is going to be fruitful for this thread.

We're not considered real geeks. Because...why? I'm sure I'll get all kinds of shit for even daring to make this comparison, but being a geek wasn't cool twenty years ago. Look at the portrayal of geeks in movies, TV, and videogames (oh ha ha Otacon pissed his pants, get it, because nerds are pathe...

Anyway the real point is that the problem isn't all those "actual bigots" it's also the vastly greater number of reasonable normal people who refuse to believe that they could be part of the problem. It's not actually a dire moral failing to say something that reflects one or two of the m...

Congrats on the win! Did you find Qazlal's noise difficult in Tomb? Thank you! In moments, yes. T:3 wasn't bad (for Tomb), really, but T:2 was terrible. I got the old layout, and all the greater mummies came in at once from opposite sides of my LOS. A couple bad decisions later and I was worried I ...

I'm sure it happened because of the name generator, but that doesn't make it any less amusing!

Okay, so Aule DEWz #133 (who, on trunk, still has not been executed), found a Crystal Arbalest in the Minotaur's loot stash. Here's the actual ID: 75595 | Temple | Identified the +7 arbalest of Aule's Execution {freeze, rN+} (You found it in a labyrinth) I literally laughed out loud, when I realize...

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dck wrote:the speciesism in this place is disgusting.

So you weren't a fan of the Pheldagrif?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLekkdsNg1I

Anyway the real point is that the problem isn't all those "actual bigots" it's also the vastly greater number of reasonable normal people who refuse to believe that they could be part of the problem. It's not actually a dire moral failing to say something that reflects one or two of the m...

Congratulations! I remember back when I had my first 15 runer online, during the 0.10 tournament iirc. It felt great! I've actually never won a 15 runer again since then. The game has changed quite a bit, tbh. The Abyss and the Depths as well as Vaults are now quite terrifying, especially the Depth...

Having a character that was so strong in the endgame really makes me appreciate how true it is when the really good players say the early game is the hardest part. Early game, let's say D:1 - D:3, isn't harder than V:5, Coc:7 etc. The point is that in early dungeon you often have no way to get out ...

Well, thank you. :) I was certainly very pleased with how this character went, especially since I didn't feel like the game really handed me a lot of nice things. I'd felt like I'd had better luck with my last MiFI of Qazlal, but I choked on the Hells. It's always nice getting confirmation that you'...

Thanks! I just realized I posted the wrong log. Haha, whoops. It's the right one now. I did run into one, but since I'd never done Zigs before, I thought it was just a demon floor. That makes more sense. I think it was about level 13 or 14 or so, so it wasn't too horrible... but it was still pretty ...

I'd gotten a 15 runer before (a MiHu of TSO, if memory serves me correctly) back in .12, but I wasn't playing online then. I've wanted to do it again since I started playing again, but it hadn't quite come together until this one. Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.15-a0-2213-gb17132f (webtiles) cha...

I do love using the ball, but it takes a lot of prep-work to make it worthwhile. (Clarity, high evocations, probably sustain abilities) There's also a couple major things to consider when using it. 1) You shouldn't use it when the possibility of having your mana drained to 0 would screw you. 2) Alwa...

Not the occasional nerdy chick, which sadly, is a rare sight. We're not rare. On the internet, frequently we're not obvious. We're assumed male. Sometimes, we might not correct people because we want to belong. Or it makes us safer. Because we wanted to be treated the same. Because we don't want to...

Go look up some of the studies done on the gaming community. They're out there. If you really want to learn about it... then do it! Technically, I am making no claims, so the burden of proof is on you. But even with that, I honestly don't really care about learning about it, because I don't have in...

dck wrote:well no it's going to be shit compared to a +7 freezy dwhip with 5 slaying

Haha good to know. Thanks.

I just found Shillelagh while clearing out Zot:4 on my latest MiFi of Qazlal. Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.15-a0-2198-g7f377d1 (webtiles) character file. Nemora the End of an Era (Minotaur Fighter) Turns: 83849, Time: 07:58:32 HP 246/246 AC 40 Str 26 XL: 27 MP 43/43 EV 26 Int 10 God: Qazlal [*...

*curl in a ball and cry* why are you being agressive towards me I'm so peaceful Edit: a friend of mine just said women dont play so much videogames because we can get sex when we want, so we dont need to flee from reality. life's more fun wen you can get multiple orgasms. *patpat* There there. It's...

You wanted non-anecdotal examples. I mentioned one. *shrug* Well, actually, it's mostly because mentioning Anita Sarkeesian and her video series in most videogame forums ends up turning into a total clusterfuck. But actually addressing this, as a statistician, I seriously question her work. She may...

Let's be honest, the only people who are capable of adequately answering why more women don't play Crawl is the women who don't play Crawl. Men who play Crawl and women who play Crawl are not fit to answer this, for what should be obvious reasons. my gf just said: "it is boring, hard, and I ha...

nilsbloodaxe wrote:
Sar wrote:
somebody wrote:Anita Sarkeesian

oh boy, here we go

Yeah, I think this is like Godwin's law now. I think it's time to bail on this thread.

You wanted non-anecdotal examples.

I mentioned one.

*shrug*

As anecdotal as my rebuttal might be, if you're curious to learn how widespread this stuff is, I'd suggest venturing out to Google. The website http://fatuglyorslutty.com/ has been around for a while. Anita Sarkeesian's videos detail sexism in video games- and the responses to her are rather telling...

This issue has been considered by Wikipedia when they were trying to get more women to participate in editing. Their main finding was that most women show a strong preference for collaborative or 'helping' leisure activities, and editing Wikipedia (or playing video games) didn't fit the bill. Yeah,...

This issue has been considered by Wikipedia when they were trying to get more women to participate in editing. Their main finding was that most women show a strong preference for collaborative or 'helping' leisure activities, and editing Wikipedia (or playing video games) didn't fit the bill. Yeah,...

Ooof. That's rough. I agree with Blink- don't get demoralized! You can still win even with a heavily mutated character. Keep at it! ANd congrats for getting that far! Now get there again! ;) It should be easier now that you've managed to get that far once. Here's a few things I noticed while parsing...

I'm female.

*shrugs*

I've been playing roguelikes since I was 8. Started on Nethack, later played ADOM, Dwarf Fortress, Dungeons of Dredmore, DCSS, and Tales of Maj'Eyal.

We're around.

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