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Title    SN eBBQ ... So To Speak (And Watch NCommander Play Nethack )
Date    Wednesday April 01 2015, @03:39AM
Author    NCommander
Topic   
from the would-you-like-your-possessions-identified? dept.
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=15/04/01/0212256

Happy April 1st Everyone.

As you can see, the staff are already making changes for this annual tradition, with paulej72 and mrcoolbp being responsible for the site being in green today. I was planning my own fun feature to add to the site, but was unable to finish it fully in time. (For the curious, here is an experimental version of it.) Unfortunately, we are not yet ready to deploy the next site update.

So, I decided that perhaps today would be a good day to sit down and have a social event. Since we're going with a "retro" theme today, I thought "What would be more appropriate than to sit back, take questions from the community, and play NetHack?"! I'll be playing on nethack.alt.org (NAO) which allows you to watch games in progress over telnet. I will also be streaming live on Twitch, fielding questions from chat, and answering them live. For those averse to new media, you can simply connect to NAO via telnet, and choose to watch my game. I'll note, for completeness' sake, I'm not a complete newbie at nethack — I have, in fact, managed to ascend once with the amulet. Perhaps if luck is with us, I might manage it again on camera.

I hope to play as a 24-hour event, from 0:00 to 23:59 EST, though that might change depending on how I'm feeling. I plan to setup a Skype session so members of the staff can join in and perhaps field a question or two. If anyone wants to live update for me (watch the stream and keep notes on what I've done) or something similar, drop me a Private Message on either the SoylentNews IRC channel or on Freenode (I'll be in #nethack while I'm streaming).

If you ever wanted an opportunity to yell at me to my face, well, here's your chance. Tomorrow the site theme will be back to normal, though for those who prefer it, the vt100 theme will remain available to logged-in users should they choose to use it.

Note: If someone wants another way to host the audio and wants to setup a server for us, just let us know and we'll try to hook up the audio. Ping NCommander in IRC if possible, or just mention it in the twitch chat, or via telnet.

Note to streamers: For those watching via Twitch, there is a 20-30 stream delay, so if I don't immediately respond, assume that's the reason.

Links

  1. "experimental version" - gopher://dev.soylentnews.org/
  2. "NetHack" - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetHack
  3. "nethack.alt.org" - http://nethack.alt.org/
  4. "Twitch" - http://www.twitch.tv/ncommander
  5. "IRC channel" - https://soylentnews.org/chat.soylentnews.org

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