"I got hooked on Nethack" post

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+title: "Oh Dear, She Got Hooked on Nethack (Again)"
+date: 2022-04-24T17:36:33-07:00
+draft: false
+tags: ["Nethack", "Video Games"]
+---
+
+A couple weeks ago, I connected to my VPS to check on something. Theres [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 and my laptop. There's been at least one Safari window packed with
+[NetHackWiki][nethackwiki] tabs, including a pinned one for the [Price
+Identification][priceid] page.
+
+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'm having a lot of fun
+with it for now.
+
+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