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It seems there's a curse to Angband and all its variants: there's no indepth wiki.
The few info/spoiler/helpful tips i got for Sil is usually from either dedicated threads (Sil had some people talking about it here in one of the Angband threads of old), but they're rare unfortunately..

Lot of that is because most of the *band varients have their source/data just kinda' sitting there, out in the open and mostly human readable.

Sil's case with the prying it looks like there's just a chance to destroy your weapon when you try to pry out the shinies? Can't tell if you get a another chance/can try again with a different weapon or not if you fail an attempt, though. The exact mechanic's in the code but I am not nearly coherent enough to try to parse it in more detail than that.

maybe it was the dastardly noops scovel the whole time

I mean, the best poster is Toady One. This is not a difficult choice to make, either

Generally not huge hordes, but dodge stuff while autofiring a slate of weapons, yeah. It was AoS based instead of arena survival, but still. Both tanks and (navel) battleships (the latter was most common, when I was playing) were the main ones, the earliest incarnation I can remember seeing was with space battleships and a pretty large battlefield (SC2 arcade stuff had some of that more fleshed out).

The specific combination of arena survival + huge hordes + multiple upgrading autofire weapons I think genuinely originated with magic survival. Everything except the multiple part of the weapons saw expression in flash games (there was a fairly famous one that had you swinging a sword around, iirc), the multiple upgrading autofire weapons came out in WC3 days... maybe even earlier, I think some of the very late stage Starcraft custom maps might have fiddled with it, too.

Anyway, general point is the pedigree and general design definitely predates MS or VS, they just managed to hit a particularly well liked combination of it. The whole "autofiring reverse bullet hell" thing was legitimately fairly new design, but earlier stuff had very much gotten very close to it. MS/VS just incremented design in a way that hit a really sweet spot and provided a lot of inspiration for other games.

Who needs a sig thread when you keep the same few things in your sig forever.

*fistbump*

frumple's sigtext has remained inviolate for longer than most people on this forum have had an account

kitten (<6 months old) just literally scared the shit out of a visiting dog about 10x its size

... kitty is maybe not the smartest thing in the world but...

I was "Treated like a right-winger?" and "Forced to defend positions I don't believe in?" regarding None's accusation that I'm Peddling '"masks are authoritarian tyranny' bullshit"

That... wasn't an accusation, you literally called republican intransigent regarding pandemic response, specifically the mask mandate, fighting Authoritarianism.

Quote from: hector13 on October 21, 2022, 08:49:48 pm

Yep.

In Wisconsin they objected to how the Democratic governor was dealing with the pandemic when it became a big deal in 2020, particularly over mask mandates and how the state health secretary (or whatever it was called) extended the first one since they claimed they didn’t have the power to do that so took them to court… rather than organize a vote in the Republican-controlled state senate to vote it down.

So apparently fighting Authoritarianism is a Bad Thing. Except when the Republicans do it. Got it.

If that's not what you were intending to communicate, you made some remarkably poor word choices, because the words you chose were peddling exactly what was claimed.

Considering maybe starting using this forum again. Some stuff happened in my life recently and I would like to return to this place from time to time. It's been so, so many years, though... ah well, it should be fine. Hello again, everyone.

... years? I coulda' swore you were still posting occasionally just a year ago or something. The avatar was changed relatively recently compared to your join date, at least.

though in fairness i don't think i usually notice people left until they come back and my mind goes "wait, they weren't posting?" so uh