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- From: hsu_wh@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (William H Hsu)
- Newsgroups: rec.games.hack,rec.humor
- Subject: Computer Science Nethackerisms I
- Date: 22 Jan 1993 22:17:32 -0500
- Organization: Homewood Academic Computing, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md, USA
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-
- I wrote these over the course of the last two years -- clearly,
- studying CS every semester and playing Nethack over vacation tends to induce
- one to snap. :-) Enjoy. BTW, I use this as my .plan -- let me know if you
- find any of these signature-worthy.
-
- Disclaimer: some of these are inside jokes (relative to Computer
- Science and occasionally Johns Hopkins University).
-
- The CS textbook tasted terrible! --more-- Intrinsics:
- You finish eating the CS textbook. --more-- You are NP-complete.
- You feel very difficult. You aggravate undergrads.
- You are solution resistant.
- k. a cursed spellbook of Artificial Intelligence
- l. 2 cursed scrolls of graphsearch
- m. a blessed +1 Decstation named syzygy.cs.jhu.edu (weapon in hand)
-
- *|/////|====================-
- The stone giant hurls an Algorithms book! --more--
- You are hit by an Algorithms book! --more--
- You die...
- *|/////|====================-
- You look upon Knuth. --more--
- You turn to stone.
- *|/////|====================-
- The CS professor's gaze confuses you! --more--
- The CS professor hits. --more--
- You are getting more and more confused.
- *|/////|====================-
- You may wish for an object. What do you want? a blessed spellbook of Compilers
- You have summoned a Toy dragon! --more--
- The blast of C code hits you! --more--
- You die...
- *|/////|====================-
- There is a CS undergraduate corpse here; sacrifice it? y
- You have summoned a demon lord! --more--
- You are scared to death, and unable to move. --more--
- Dijkstra demands 65536 zorkmids for safe passage.
- *|/////|====================-
- You have found a scroll of genocide! --more--
- What monster do you want to genocide (type the name)? teaching assistant
- A voice booms out across the caverns: --more--
- "No, mortal, that will not be done!"
- *|/////|====================-
- The data compressor hits! --more--
- Your potions explode! --more--
- Your 13 rocks turn into 13 worthless pieces of white glass. --more--
- Your uncursed spellbook of Computational Geometry is compressed. --more--
- Your uncursed scroll of Discrete Hopfield Nets is compressed. --more--
- Your armor and weapons shrink to half their original size. --more--
- Fortunately, so do you.
- You feel like a small man.
-
- Name: William.ZIP the Hobbit
- d. an uncursed compressed spellbook of Computational Geometry
- e. an uncursed compressed scroll of Discrete Hopfield nets
- f. a blessed +3 baby gray dragon scale mail (being worn)
- g. a blessed +4 short sword named Excalibur (weapon in hand)
- What do you want to read? [de or ?*] d
- Hmm, it appears to be random runes.
- *|/////|====================-
- A trap door opens up under you! --more--
- You fall directly into the basement of Gilman. --more--
- Unfortunately, it is here that hell is located. --more--
- But the radon doesn't seem to harm you. --more--
- Hello, William, welcome again to Barnesandnoble's rare and exorbitantly priced
- bookstore! --more--
- Please drop your gold at the door.
- *|/////|====================-
- The post office lady hits! --more--
- You feel feverish.
- Barnesandnoble hits! --more--
- Your purse feels lighter.
- *|/////|====================-
- e. a cursed spellbook of data encryption
- What do you want to read? [e or ?*] e
- Oh, wow, look at all the pretty colors! --more--
- Your mind turns into a pretzel! --more--
- You turn into a blathering idiot. --more--
- You have become a CS graduate student. --more--
- You die...
- *|/////|====================-
- New for 1992
- *|/////|====================-
- d. an blessed self-extracting scroll of handwaving resistance
- What do you want to read? [d or ?*] d
- As you read, the runes on the page magically arrange themselves! --more--
- You feel skeptical!
- *|/////|====================-
- What do you wish to engrave with? [-abc or ?*] ?
- a. a blessed +4 Sun workstation named rhombus (weapon in hand)
- b. a blessed +2 high-speed modem named Forval
- c. an uncursed high-density 3.5" floppy disk
- What do you wish to engrave with? [-abc or ?*] b
- You write in the dust with a blessed +2 high-speed modem named Forval. --more--
- What do you want to write? Shannon
- The data decompressor lord appears afraid! --more--
- The grid bug appears afraid!
- *|/////|====================-
- What do you wish to engrave with? [-abc or ?*] c
- You write in the dust with an uncursed high-density 3.5" floppy disk. --more--
- What do you want to write? Penrose
- The emperor lich appears confused.
- *|/////|====================-
- k. a blindfold (being worn)
- l. an uncursed mirror
- o. an uncursed lock pick
- p. a Sound Blaster (10)
- Apply what? [klop or ?*] p
- You blow into the Sound Blaster. --more--
- A sonic blast is emitted! --more--
- You destroy the xorn!
- Apply what? [klop or ?*] l
- Which direction? .
- You have the feeling that powerful CS professors are all around you.
- *|/////|====================-
- f. a brown potion
- g. a potion of Gevalia Kaffe
- Drink what? [fg or ?*] f
- This makes you feel great! Call a brown potion: JOLT
- Drink what [g or ?*] g
- You feel a sudden urge to play chess. --more--
- The caffeine overdose wreaks havoc with your nervous system! --more--
- You hear the wailing of the Banshee...
- *|/////|====================-
- There is a LALR parser corpse here; tin it? y
- i. a blessed tin of LEX-YACCs
- Eat what [i or ?*] i
- The tin opens like magic! --more--
- It smells like LALR parsers. Eat it? y
- Your expressions become regular.
- *|/////|====================-
- Danforth hits! --more--
- Your economic future is uncertain... --more--
- The U.S. economy seems to be moving slower.
- You hit Danforth. --more--
- Your hands stop glowing blue. --more--
- Danforth is already confused.
- You destroy Danforth!
- ...
- i. a fortune cookie
- j. 3 food rations
- k. a potatoe
- l. a +3 SyQuest removable disk named Media Elite (88)
- m. a scroll titled "seulav ylimaf"
- Read what [m or ?*] m
- Thinking of Murphy Brown you forget all else.
- *|/////|====================-
- k. a tripe ration
- Eat what [k or ?*] k
- The tripe ration tasted like quails! --more--
- You finish eating the tripe ration.
- You vomit! --more--
- You are getting weak from hunger... --more-- d..
- You have attracted a Japanese dignitary! .@@<= Miyazawa
- Talk to whom? [l] ...
- Miyazawa asks whether you would like some more squid.
- Millie bites Miyazawa! --more--
- Miyazawa gets angry! --more-- %@.
- Miyazawa swings his katana at Millie. --more-- .@.<= George the
- Miyazawa destroys Millie! ... Lipreader
- You have a strange feeling in your thyroid gland, but then it passes.
- *|/////|====================-
- Talk to whom? [h] ...
- Dave mentions that he has dropped Numerical Analysis. @@.
- You hit Dave! --more-- ...
- Dave gets angry! --more--
- Dave hits! Dave hits! --more--
- You hear the howling of the CwnAnnwyn... --more--
- What do you wish to engrave with? [-abc or ?*] u
- You write in the dust with a blessed spellbook of PLT. --more--
- What do you want to write? Good luck in the rest of your courses, hahahaHAHAHA!
- Dave looks confused. --more--
- Dave wanders off, muttering about how much work he has to do.
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