My second Crawl win! (The first was with a Spriggan Enchanter of Okawaru back in February 2013, in version 0.11.)
(For those of you unfamiliar with Crawl*, I’m called a “Politician” because I’m very good at backstabbing. (Only in the literal sense, though.) For those of you unfamiliar with roguelikes in general, Crawl is not an easy game to win. There was a statistic on the dev-blog a little while ago that 98% of games played on the online servers end in a loss, and that’s lumping the games of uber-players in with everyone else.)
Now that I’ve finished my current Crawl game, I’m going to give Rogue a try. I’ll be using this browser emulator, which was making the rounds on Tumblr a while back. I was catching up on @Play today and found a link to this Rogue guide, but I won’t use it right away: I want to see how much of the game I can understand using only my (slightly rusty) fluency in Nethack (plus the occasional thing I remember from reading @Play).
*Which might be all of you. I know comparativelysuperlative and amaranththallium both speak a couple different dialects of Nethack, but I don’t know what else they speak.
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#Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup #roguelikes #obvious GIMP is obvious #(I play Crawl under a different username) #I’ve been in a roguelike mood the past few days #oh look an original post
[Why did Odo decide to take a male form? Did he just model after Mora, or is it how he most identified?]
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#Star Trek #DS9 #Odo #gender #personally I think that he was originally modelling after Mora and then got into the habit of it #I suspect me being strongly cis is due–at least in part–to a general tendency to form strong habits #and Odo has such a tendency #if he gets attached to things like patrol schedules or furniture placements that were originally mostly or entirely arbitrary #it makes sense that he would get attached to his originally-mostly-arbitrary gender
#the inside of my head on a bad brain day #the really nasty part is that thinking in terms of ‘mandatory’ and ‘permitted’ and ‘forbidden’ #rather than ‘right’ and ‘okay’ and ‘wrong’ #is itself forbidden #sometimes I think my home culture could stand to be a bit more *overtly* authoritarian #because supposed anti-authoritarianism #tends to be a euphemism for ‘one of our rules is to never admit that we have rules’ #’even to yourself’ #and that’s just cruel #(I suspect this post ties into the recent Sorting Hat post in some way) #there is probably some warning tag I should put on this but I am not sure what
Brinens and Things 