Would’ve gotten something done tonight, but I’ve been playing a lot of NetHack at work on my breaks (god bless whoever first thought to port it to Windows CE) and I took it upon myself to find not only Nethack for Windows, which isn’t exactly tough, but a 3D version of NetHack. My logic being that while the game is fun regardless (though I find it hard to play in the original ASCII), I have a fairly powerful computer and I may as well find a version that’s nice to look at, and possibly adds some functionality. And of course I didn’t. I did find Slash’EM, which has some interesting new features and such, and the GTK+ version supports the large isometric tileset, but damned if it wouldn’t be cool to see NetHack in full 3D will all the DirecX 9 bells and whistles.

Also, as with everything even remotely connected with GTK+, every different window in GTK Slash’EM has it’s own taskbar item, and they’re constantly stealing focus from each other. So I’m basically torn between the extra options and iso graphics, and the well-written program. Though the inclusion of an “Undead Killer” job helps Slash’EM a lot. I’m naming the next one “Buffy” in the hopes that she won’t be killed by a fucking kitten. (Ever been hit by a train of pissed off mobs in an MMO? Imagine the last one is a fucking kitten. There’s just no living that shit down.)