simont | The annoyances of being ill

The annoyances of being ill

I barely slept at all last night due to a strange feverish feeling, so this morning I not only feel strange and feverish but am also three-quarters asleep. I keep deciding which room of my flat I want to go into, and then walking into a different one by mistake. I therefore decided going to work would be bound to do more harm than good, and hence didn't.

My current preference for passing a sick day would be to spend a fair amount of it playing NetHack. Today, even that is denied me, because my current NH saved game is looking really quite promising and I don't want to blow it by playing like a pudding while groggy. So I suppose it's the sofa for me. Oh well.

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Play on a different machine. Eg: mine via vpn, or assorted others ;) That way you can still play and it doesn't matter if you're a snoozebaboon.

That's a point, I suppose.

ceb is always on at me to play on chiark, come to think of it.

Mind you, suppose it starts going well by accident?

damerell apparently had this unexpectedly happen to him once, and it terminated in ascension. That wouldn't be so bad in itself, but if a second game starts getting good then I'll have to start trying to remember which things I've got in what; the second guy is liable to die to a giant eel because I've forgotten that it's the first who has a ring of free action, or some such. It's probably better if I lay off until I can resume my current game, and don't confuse myself by trying to have two on the go at once...

Alternatively, play under a different name using nethack -u Ill-Simon.

Ooh, I didn't know you could do that. That's worth knowing for the future, although I think most of my response to Verity still applies in this particular situation.

I wouldn't[1] have known how to do that, but it seems inevitable that one *could* do it[2].

Suggestion: are there silly variants of nethack that would be fun but sufficiently different not to be confused? You know, nethack -everymonsterisalion or one of the complete the game collecting everything things?

[1] Indeed, still don't, I didn't bother remembering the letter.
[2] At this point I realised what it must be :)