erynwells.me/content/blog/2022/04/nethack/index.md

---
title: Oh Dear, She Got Hooked on Nethack Again
date: 2022-04-24T17:36:33-07:00
description: In which I get hooked on that one roguelike (God help me)
categories: ["Games"]
tags: ["Nethack", "Roguelikes"]
---

A couple weeks ago, I connected to my VPS to check on something. There's [a
part](list-tmux-sessions) of [my dotfiles][zprofile] that runs during login
shell initialization that prints the currently running `tmux` sessions
associated with my account. I noticed I had a session running and attached to it
to see what it was.

In that session I found a [Nethack][nethack] game that I'd started back in
January and never finished. I finished the game, killed by a Woodland Elf, and,
well, the damage had been done.

It has been three weeks and I've had at least one game of Nethack going on my
VPS or my laptop nonstop since then. There's been at least one Safari window
packed with [NetHackWiki][nethackwiki] tabs too, including a pinned one for the
[Price Identification][priceid] page.

I may have gotten a little carried away a time or two.

{{< twitter erynofwales 1510763278691016705 >}}

I've gotten much better in that time. My scores have increased from the
1000-2000 range to my best game so far in which [I scored 9401
points][over9000]. Who's to say if I'll ever ascend, but I am having a lot of
fun with it.

It's even got me thinking about building roguelikes... (hmmm)

For fun and cause I'm a huge nerd, I put together a page on my site that will
auto-update with my latest scores each time I publish the site. Check out my
Nethack [logfile](/nethack) for that.

[zprofile]: https://github.com/erynofwales/dotfiles/blob/main/zprofile#L26
[list-tmux-sessions]: https://github.com/erynofwales/dotfiles/blob/main/zsh/func/list_tmux_sessions
[nethack]: https://www.nethack.org
[nethackwiki]: https://nethackwiki.com/wiki/Main_Page
[priceid]: https://nethackwiki.com/wiki/Price_identification
[over9000]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITWMoS2L1oo