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The brain surgeon astronaut tries to hit you with a scalpel, but you don't have enough gold to pay for the procedure! Your tumor grows! Your intracranial pressure increases! You die...

i wanna be a brain surgeon astronaut

Sticky flame is not loud, and it is very good. The downside is that you have to be adjacent, but after you put the sticky flame on the enemy, you can start retreating if needed. It's a chei character with medicore defenses. I'd prefer casting sticky flame and then attacking with the +11 cutlass whi...

I'd train a few more levels of Short Blades for that +11 cutlass and elec dagger (later, EV has priority right now). I realise you want to kill everyone from afar, but if you are doing that using loud spells you're bound to end up with no MP and monsters in sight sometimes.

mkraemer wrote:theoretically

...nerd trap sprung

Crawl doesn't use American English.

All right. The reaction tally is four negative, four neutral, and one positive. If this trend is indicative of the final tally, one must conclude the proposal in either form as dead. Nevertheless, it has been less than 24 hours since the OP was made, so whether or not the instant results provide an...

there is no fun at all available in the mutation game for most characters in extended. Some people might consider playing with a handicap (a bad mutation) and/or avoiding being mutated fun and challenging. While it isn't a fundamental problem with the idea, the current design rewards spoiler use to...

Amulet of vitality is much better than warding and gourmand. rCorr and rMut are situationally more useful, of course. If you are worried about sustenance loss from vitality's regeneration, it is quite small and only occurs when you aren't at full HP. Regeneration is particularily useful if you want ...

It seems like a reasonable assumption that most current online players started out offline, for however short a period. The most important point in the discussion about a player ghost/unique tutorial isn't tiles or offline though, it's players being new to the game. Despite the fact that offline and...

Offline console on a friend's computer, and it was the first time I had seen an ASCII game (besides text adventures) so the novelty of it was one of the reasons I started playing myself. Didn't know online existed until I went to ##crawl for advice. Have you voted? Offline console has 0 votes curre...

Offline console on a friend's computer, and it was the first time I had seen an ASCII game (besides text adventures) so the novelty of it was one of the reasons I started playing myself. Didn't know online existed until I went to ##crawl for advice.

Training a couple levels of poison will generally get spider form online faster than only training transmutations, so I'd do that. Get UC to a decent level (5ish) first though.

http://www.reddit.com/r/roguelikes/ is active, at least, though I don't know how good it is.

Lyrick wrote:
cerebovssquire wrote:I'm more sorry for buying books without any intention to read them.

FOR THE GLORY OF TROG

not really an option here in germany

What do you mean by major destruction not doing much? It's either the bolts, fireball, ranged sticky flame or orb of electricity. These are all as good, or better, than the conjurations you can expect as an average conjurer/elementalist by lair, which is a character type that doesn't have issues wit...

This doesn't even sound incredibly lucky. That's a good weapon and +5 protection is a great ring, but the resistance ring is mostly irrelevant and if you're following Makhleb, it's not like killing hydras (or anything in lair) was going to be a problem anyway.

I'm more sorry for buying books without any intention to read them.

Chei, Elyvilon, Xom: not following chei and xom is a good idea. Without knowing the exact reasons why you think Elyvilon is weird - she's definitely very strong, and if you are under the impression that pacification is always extremely important with Ely, it can also be simply a way to gain piety ag...

Elixir card is pretty good.

Also note that some gods are good for virtually any character (e.g. Makhleb, Fedhas, and Nemelex) and if you find an altar to one of these gods early on, following them will rarely be a bad choice. D:2 Makhleb is better than D:6 Vehumet even for a conjurations-focussed character, for instance.

Walking speed doesn't affect how stealthy you are. Stealth is checked for each step, not whenever a certain length of time passes. I don't remember having a problem stabbing fiends with needles the few times I have played a needlestabber, maybe more than 20 Throwing would be helpful. Regardless, usi...

Bloax wrote:Not trying to be in vaults with two runes after 10k turns would probably help, as would caring about dying.
oh and actually playing helps too

You really have to work on your "brag while making it seem like you're not bragging" game, man

I don't know to what extent this idea is implementable, so, ignoring possible technical issues: I don't see how "tactical" and "luck-based" are mutually exclusive. Having to account for one action's multiple possible outcomes in your decision-making and weighing up their respecti...

http://i.imgur.com/6jLXlSi.gif when i was about 12 the slightest bit of violent death, blood or gore in films or even cartoons would scare the shit out of me. it was so bad that completely harmless stuff like the rat poison scene in dumb & dumber would be on my mind for months. of course many o...

They're like humans except they suck at everything aside from stats, and maybe their HP and MP pool if memory serves. This and godlessness makes a pretty big difference in how they play. I think Hu vs. Dg are more different than some other races you could compare (HO vs Mi and Mf vs HE, for instanc...

Uh, don't needles check HD and not MR, thus making ?vulnerability useless? It's been some time since I've played a needlestabber, so I'm not sure at all (it wasn't a problem needlestabbing cerebov without the ?vuln, anyway).

Bloax wrote:you can't date your hand what is wrong with you

I think language was actually invented because some smartass, millennia ago, wanted to make this joke for the first time

That guide is outdated and just bad in some places. I would not pain brand a spear especially since it would be giving up the necronomicon. As the author... I am sure the guide is bad in some places. If I rewrote it today: - I wouldn't say that you should get melee only once you find a high-end wea...

Spoiler: show

Sar wrote:
duvessa wrote:minmay: benedict cumberbatch

Spoiler: show

unzips

Getting to swamp in only a couple of weeks doesn't sound bad at all.

Arrhythmia wrote:The greater the object, the less the pleasure and the greater the pain it is possible to obtain from this. I do it for stretching and derive pleasure if it possible.

I think there's a life lesson for all of us in here

Hirsch I wrote:i would live for months with 161 dollars and 55 cents.
I would even eat meat once in a week!

I currently have about 30 euros, two cans of disgusting ravioli, and a bottle of cheap scotch. On second thought, I too would get pretty damn excited about 161 dollars and 55 cents right now.

ZipZipskins wrote:damn if I had a nickel for every "caster"

i wouldn't get too excited about 161 dollars and 55 cents

We discussed inception in fucking philosophy class as some kind of Descartes replacement and nooned seemed to think this was strange. Yeah, we were 15-16, but come on, you can read 15 pages of Descartes and have some idea of what is going on and instead we watch 2+ hours of this. I can certainly th...

Back in my day it was The Matrix. We were given the option between The Matrix and Inception. High school philosophy was a complete trainwreck. R.E. here in Germany is either Catholicism or Protestantism, so you have a lot of atheists/Muslims/Christians of other denominations who don't want to go to...

Oh man Inception... It's not that it was a bad movie, but everyone was like "Oh man that's like the deepest movie I ever seen" Pretty much any show or book that gets called "smart" or "clever" makes me feel the same way. We discussed inception in fucking philosophy cla...

Baldu3 wrote:
Hurkyl wrote:It's actually the spider floors that are giving me the most trouble, due to ghost moths. Oh, I suppose a silent spectre would be problematic too, but haven't seen one on this character.

Invisibility makes ghost moths unable to drain you and wands/rods snipe spectres.

Delayed Fireball works too.

dual wielding

Cultural Marxist Social Justice crusaders I can't speak for anyone else but I'm not a "cultural" marxist She is awful at Minecraft. Yet she has over 200k subscribers, and has been accepted to both the Forgecraft and Mindcrack servers. There are a least a million men with far more talent s...

Watery Grave is great flavour, but yeah probably a little overpowered. Watery Grave could be adjusted if it turns out to be too strong (e.g. via not guaranteeing one drowned soul per kill, giving a piety cost per spawned and not up front, limiting total number of drowned souls) if it is overpowered...

Well, compared to wands of fire/cold/draining they are bad. They're useful in some situations (e.g. if you wand to save some fire/cold/draining charges while firing on a hydra or comparable monster, and of course early on in the game they are very good).

Why do you think calling something "fustibalus" will reduce confusion? The weapon type of all other weapons is obvious just by their name, and where this isn't the case (rods) you see in e.g. dungeon crawling advice that this creates confusion somethimes. Also, in the very article you quot...

They're great for when you're standing on staircases and the ogre isn't adjacent yet.

If you are a stabber, invisibility allows you to kill the majority of the game with complete impunity. If anything, the spell is too strong, and this applies even more to invisibility rings. It's not amazing for non-stabbers but I don't think that's part of the spell's intended function.

Notwithstanding whether the study is right or wrong, we might be in a simulacra generated by a supercomputer that is altering reality such that the study's rightness or wrongness is a function of the computer's modifications rather than reality qua reality. We ought to consider that possibility bef...

When the fuck did you "discuss the substantive merits of the claim", all you did was post said claim and then make a shitty joke about patriarchy

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