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Oh !@#$ moments
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Wednesday, 8th February 2017, 14:48by minstrel
This just happened so I though it might be fun to do a thread of oh !@#$ moments.
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Antaeus, Guardian of Cocytus comes into view. He is wielding the +14 obsidian axe {chop, +Fly SInv
*Curse}.
This may actually be a blessing in disguise, if mesmerize affects him. I'm wearing boots of running and have rElec and rC+++, so if that's true I can basically lead him around on a leash and ninja the rune even easier than normal.
Of course, I'm playing a ghoul with max unarmed, armor and dodging, so I just might be cocky enough to tell him to bring it.
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Antaeus hits you with the cursed +14 obsidian axe {chop, +Fly SInv *Curse}!!!
Yeah, ok, NOPE.
Re: Oh !@#$ moments
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Wednesday, 8th February 2017, 16:55by Airwolf
(Blowgun, dude, blowgun.)
Re: Oh !@#$ moments
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Wednesday, 8th February 2017, 23:44by duvessa
every second of my life
Re: Oh !@#$ moments
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Thursday, 9th February 2017, 21:20by Moose
You have a +3 broad axe of electrocution, and find a Hydra on L:2. Thinking you can out-damage his head-spawning, you take a few swings, and realize you aren't doing enough damage.
Sooo... you berserk, and with new confidence, continue your hydra decapitation-fest. But after a few more swings, and 18 heads, you realize that not only are you not doing enough damage, that your zerk is going to run out in a couple turns, and you're now at 20% HP.
Re: Oh !@#$ moments
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Friday, 10th February 2017, 05:06by lethediver
When im watching porn with my cpu connected to the living room TV so I can maximize my fap session and my parents start to unlock the front door
Re: Oh !@#$ moments
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Friday, 10th February 2017, 15:05by MainiacJoe
Moose wrote:You have a +3 broad axe of electrocution, and find a Hydra on L:2. Thinking you can out-damage his head-spawning, you take a few swings, and realize you aren't doing enough damage.
Sooo... you berserk, and with new confidence, continue your hydra decapitation-fest. But after a few more swings, and 18 heads, you realize that not only are you not doing enough damage, that your zerk is going to run out in a couple turns, and you're now at 20% HP.
One of my very first characters to make it to Lair was a Halfling melee dude with a sweet artifact short sword. It turned out that this was the last version in which short swords chopped hydra heads, but I had no idea what was happening and then I died.
Re: Oh !@#$ moments
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Friday, 10th February 2017, 16:46by stoneychips
Those moments when you just found about five neat, should be very useful items all bunched together...
And before you get a chance to train any one of them or even get used to the idea that you have them to use, you also get some of the nastiest stuff on that floor all clumped right together blasting the heck out of you.
Re: Oh !@#$ moments
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Saturday, 11th February 2017, 02:41by Claw
When you just started your run 10 minutes ago and auto-explore leads you right into 5 enemies WAY too strong for you to fight. They aren't asleep either, and there is no chance of getting away, as you have no means of teleportation, blinking, or fighting them! I THOUGHT I COULD TRUST YOU AUTO-EXPLORE!
Re: Oh !@#$ moments
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Saturday, 11th February 2017, 06:09by dracos369
lethediver wrote:When im watching porn with my cpu connected to the living room TV so I can maximize my fap session and my parents start to unlock the front door
Tell me it was at least something relatively mild, and not some furry lolicon futanari guro gangrape that would make them call an exorcist/psycologist
Re: Oh !@#$ moments
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Saturday, 11th February 2017, 21:12by stoneychips
Claw wrote:When you just started your run 10 minutes ago and auto-explore leads you right into 5 enemies WAY too strong for you to fight. They aren't asleep either, and there is no chance of getting away, as you have no means of teleportation, blinking, or fighting them! I THOUGHT I COULD TRUST YOU AUTO-EXPLORE!
For what it's worth, if you mean just started on D:1... I think that's more of a D:1 problem usually. Usually by D:3-5, you have some selection of scrolls and potions, and the odd clump of meanies won't be able to trap you quite as effectively so often.
Re: Oh !@#$ moments
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Sunday, 12th February 2017, 05:41by prozacelf
TIL: People spend 10 mins on d:1.
Re: Oh !@#$ moments
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Sunday, 12th February 2017, 12:35by Gozigzag
prozacelf wrote:TIL: People spend 10 mins on d:1.
dying over and over again.
Re: Oh !@#$ moments
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Sunday, 12th February 2017, 22:05by Shard1697
prozacelf wrote:TIL: People spend 10 mins on d:1.
that ain't that much
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DStCYJRhd0s
Re: Oh !@#$ moments
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Monday, 13th February 2017, 01:13by tabstorm
When I watch videos like this it really makes me think about how different discussion about DCSS development might be without online statistics and the idea of streaking existing.
Re: Oh !@#$ moments
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Monday, 13th February 2017, 12:55by Gozigzag
I have had worse... during the tourney, specially.
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2 | D:1 | You fall through a shaft!
The idea that new players should get used to mindlessly tab through the first x games until rng gives in being better than balancing difficulty amuses me. I have tried to get friends to play roguelikes(specially DCSS), but failed due to the hostile game start. You can tell them to pick a easy combo and do basic key presses but that doesnt look fun, or you can spend 5 minutes explaining hotkeys, how to cast spells and how to avoid danger just so you can watch them die 5 seconds later, to which all you can say is "rinse and repeat until you get tot the good part of the game!".
If the start of the game was so easy that the chances of dying was invisible at least you would have the idea of progression, instead of repetition.
Re: Oh !@#$ moments
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Monday, 13th February 2017, 23:05by MainiacJoe
A vampire just came through that door, I'll finish off this deep troll pack first.
[ LCS to the face, suddenly down to 20 HP left ]
Oh !@#$, that's Jory!
Re: Oh !@#$ moments
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Tuesday, 14th February 2017, 00:48by prozacelf
tabstorm wrote:When I watch videos like this it really makes me think about how different discussion about DCSS development might be without online statistics and the idea of streaking existing.
I watched over a minute of that video and realized that I will never have the patience to streak this game, if it requires that long to deal with any given decision.
Re: Oh !@#$ moments
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Tuesday, 14th February 2017, 05:34by VeryAngryFelid
prozacelf wrote:I watched over a minute of that video and realized that I will never have the patience to streak this game, if it requires that long to deal with any given decision.
It does not. Some guys like to spend time making decisions about 0.2% chance of dying vs 0.3% chance of dying.
Re: Oh !@#$ moments
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Tuesday, 14th February 2017, 09:23by Sprucery
I've got 3 streaks of three and 6 of two even though I've always played 'normally' (used autoexplore, taken stupid risks etc.). So streaks can happen by accident. Just don't pick CK if you want to streak :)
What I wondered about that video is why he didn't always rest to full MP before continuing exploring.
Re: Oh !@#$ moments
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Tuesday, 14th February 2017, 09:32by Sar
What is an "oh the player is standing between a potion and a grate with some gold behind it" moment?
Re: Oh !@#$ moments
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Tuesday, 14th February 2017, 19:58by minstrel
Sar wrote:What is an "oh the player is standing between a potion and a grate with some gold behind it" moment?
It's shorthand. The long version is "oh !@#$%^&*()".
Also known as an "oh the player is standing between a potion and a grate, some gold, a bread ration, a zot trap, Cerbov, an orb of fire, 15 bolts and a -5 arbalest" moment.