davidk@dartvax.UUCP (David C. Kovar) (08/03/84)
A friend sent me this after a late night rogue session. I found it
amusing. If you do not, the bit bucket is that-a-way ---> .
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Ok David, Now I'm mad. We're talking a game that's in the bag.
I'm on level 17. Believe it or not my armor class was 17. I had
66 hit points. I had over 10,000 experience points. The only thing that
had hit me in the last three levels were tow medusas which I took out
with no magic necessary. I just walked up to them and wiped them out.
so, the system goes down. I save the game and lo what happens when I
try to start it up again. YOU GUESSED IT! The old see the characters
start printing on the screen bug. I HATE THE WHOLE WORLD! I don't really
think there are any bugs in the program. All the things that would
ordinarily be called bugs by normal programmers were put in by these
sadists on purpose to make it impossible to win. The program probably
monitors your armor class to see if it is too high. If it is...Well,
we'll find a nice little bug to destroy your game and your whole day.
Oh did I mention that I also had three scare monster scrolls and two
teleportion scrolls and that my high strength was 21. Someday I'll
get over this, but probably not in the near future.
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Maybe he has a point, maybe the bugs are features, maybe they are
SUPPOSED to be there!
"Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean that Rogue is not out to
get you .... "
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David C. Kovar
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"The difficult we did yesterday, the impossible we are doing now."