Talk:Lessons learned the hard way

Should we retain the info of who submitted what? - GreyKnight

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This page should be cleaned up some, so that it doesn't look like a 14 year old girl's blog post. Remove the contributors. Generalize the lessons so that they're applicable to a wider audience (ie, instead of "don't throw food at non-tame dragons", it should be "don't throw food at non-tame pets").

Some of these are just plain stupid, and they exist only to relate "famous" stories on/about NAO. Is this the NAO wiki or the NetHack wiki? Remove them, if they're not applicable to a wide audience.

I have a feeling that any changes I make will just get reverted, so I'll wait for some more discussion. --- 69.11.189.85 18:40, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

I am of the opinion that not every page has to be hard-and-fast encyclopedic information. The title of this page suggests that it is going to be entertaining first and informative second. I agree that it could stand a bit of cleanup "so that it doesn't look like a 14-year-old girl's blog post," but I don't think there's any problem with keeping some of them around just for our entertainment. After all, Nethack doesn't always take itself seriously; why should the wiki?

But this is a larger debate than just this page; I would appreciate an admin's input on this as well. --Mogri 19:56, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

"Ice box isn't good place to keep your potions in." - huh? I've searched the sources rather thoroughly, and I'm not seeing the reason behind this one. Perhaps in a variant, potions shatter if kept in an ice box (similar to being hit with a wand of cold), but I'm almost certain vanilla NetHack doesn't do this. --66.195.137.2 19:04, 20 February 2009 (UTC)

I feel stupid.

"You aren't invincible, when poly'd into an arch-lich. Chickatrice."

I'm sad now. >: That was my best game so far, too.