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[Tarran]

I'm happy because I JUST BEAT NETHACK!

Bullshit.  No one has ever beat it and no one ever will.  The law of averages renders it humanly impossible.

You're just unhappy you haven't beaten it yet.

If anyone needs actual proof:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

[ein]

I beat it once loooooong ago on another computer from another era.
That computer had some great highscores on it.

[Retro]

Remembering other RPG's, the grind isn't too bad. It's only terrible at the beginning of an age, then when you get decent jaws you can wreck some good stuff. Then you get the fierce jaws type, and things die before your might.

Yeah, I'm doing okay in the amphibian era now. I maxed out everything to do with jumping and am just hopping on everyone for sumptuous meat.

[ILikePie]

I beat it once loooooong ago on another computer from another era.
That computer had some great highscores on it.

I usually die at floor 9. :-(

[ein]

I remember the first time I got the Amulet.
I was super happy and excited, so I didn't realise it was actually a fake.

[Tarran]

I remember the first time I got the Amulet.
I was super happy and excited, so I didn't realise it was actually a fake.

Oh god, that had to have utterly ruined you when you left the dungeon.

[Acanthus117]

I'm about to begin my ASCII adventure, which will hopefully last a bit longer than my other one!

[ein]

I remember the first time I got the Amulet.
I was super happy and excited, so I didn't realise it was actually a fake.

Oh god, that had to have utterly ruined you when you left the dungeon.

Yeah, it broke my addiction.
That lasted for about three days, then I went back.

[Retro]

Oh, good god, so THAT'S how you charge. Things just got a lot easier.

[cowofdoom78963]

While you may think you have won, but the only true way to win nethack is to stand on the final alter, amulet in hand. And then #quit the game.

[ToonyMan]

That's like destroying a gold wrench.

[Tarran]

While you may think you have won, but the only true way to win nethack is to stand on the final alter, amulet in hand. And then #quit the game.

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Why would you count that as winning?

[cowofdoom78963]

It shows that you are truly above the game.

[Tarran]

It shows that you are truly above the game.

To me it shows that you played the game just so you could quit it right when you're about to win and look like someone who's throwing away a golden opportunity, not that you're really above the game. If you're really above the game you would not even download it in the first place.

[cowofdoom78963]

"Winning" the game really means nothing. Sure you can show it off to your friends and get a few "good jobs" from people on a forum, but what have you really gained? If you decide to give that amulet or not you have used the same ammount of skill to get to the alter. Now you have to make the choice about what really matters to you, your pride, or your freedom.