Hacker - Revision history

Joes: more races

2025-05-27T14:37:55Z

more races

Joes: race links, starting inv

2025-05-20T19:42:11Z

race links, starting inv

Joes: race, inv, quest

2024-03-16T14:52:59Z

race, inv, quest

Umbire the Phantom: lede...

2023-09-27T12:27:57Z

lede...

Umbire the Phantom: yeah getting proper sleepy - anyway, the double-minus stuff is covered in history so adjust lede and history accordingly

2023-09-27T12:11:56Z

yeah getting proper sleepy - anyway, the double-minus stuff is covered in history so adjust lede and history accordingly

Umbire the Phantom: pothole

2023-09-27T11:47:27Z

pothole

Umbire the Phantom: quick-n-dirty replace + var + cat

2023-09-27T11:41:03Z

quick-n-dirty replace + var + cat

Umbire the Phantom: Umbire the Phantom moved page Graduate to Hacker: role is renamed in most recent playable versions

2023-09-27T11:39:37Z

Umbire the Phantom moved page Graduate to Hacker: role is renamed in most recent playable versions

Umbire the Phantom: note

2022-10-05T08:15:02Z

note

Umbire the Phantom: de-SLEX like I did other pages

2022-10-05T00:52:39Z

de-SLEX like I did other pages

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 The '''Hacker''' is a [[role]] that appears in [[SlashTHEM]]. It is a more challenging version of the Geek role from [[NetHack-- 3.0.10]], an early version of [[SLASH'EM]], and is renamed to avoid confusion with the [[Geek]] role of [[NetHack: The Next Generation]].
-They are always neutral and can be [[human (starting race)|humans]], [[elf (starting race)|elves]], [[gnome (starting race)|gnomes]] or [[hobbit (starting race)|hobbits]].
+They are always neutral and can be [[human (starting race)|humans]], [[elf (starting race)|elves]], [[gnome (starting race)|gnomes]], [[hobbit (starting race)|hobbits]], [[incantifier (starting race)|incantifiers]] or [[doppelganger (starting race)|doppelgänger]].
 ==Skills==

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 The '''Hacker''' is a [[role]] that appears in [[SlashTHEM]]. It is a more challenging version of the Geek role from [[NetHack-- 3.0.10]], an early version of [[SLASH'EM]], and is renamed to avoid confusion with the [[Geek]] role of [[NetHack: The Next Generation]].
-They are always neutral and can be a human, elf, gnome, or hobbit.
+They are always neutral and can be [[human (starting race)|humans]], [[elf (starting race)|elves]], [[gnome (starting race)|gnomes]] or [[hobbit (starting race)|hobbits]].
 ==Skills==
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 <!-- no techs
   -->==Starting equipment==
-* +3 [[spoon]]
+* a +3 [[spoon]]
 * 5 [[candy bar]]s
-* An [[expensive camera]]
+* an [[expensive camera]]
-* A [[sack]]
+* a [[sack]]
 Additionally in SlashTHEM:
 * a pair of [[lenses]]
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 * some lunch money
-SlashTHEM replaces the spoon with a +3 [[sharpened pencil]] and the sack with an [[ugly backpack]].  It is significant to note that these are both items from the old Geek role in NetHack-- 3.0.10.  The pencil is a weak [[dagger]]-type weapon, but a useful tool that can [[engrave]] like an [[athame]].
+SlashTHEM replaces the spoon with a +1 [[sharpened pencil]] and the sack with an [[ugly backpack]].  It is significant to note that these are both items from the old Geek role in NetHack-- 3.0.10.  The pencil is a weak [[dagger]]-type weapon, but a useful tool that can [[engrave]] like an [[athame]].
 *NetHack-- 3.0.10 u_init.c line 239

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 {{otheruses|the role known as the Geek in [[NetHack-- 3.0.10]]|the role in [[NetHack: The Next Generation]]|Geek}}
-{{todo|Role exists in [[SlashTHEM]] - retool accordingly}}
 The '''Hacker''' is a [[role]] that appears in [[SlashTHEM]]. It is a more challenging version of the Geek role from [[NetHack-- 3.0.10]], an early version of [[SLASH'EM]], and is renamed to avoid confusion with the [[Geek]] role of [[NetHack: The Next Generation]].
 ==Skills==
 NetHack-- 3.0.10 was based on [[NetHack 3.0.10]], which predated the [[skill]] system, so Geeks could use any weapons.
 {| class="prettytable"
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 * XL 1: [[Speed]]
 * XL 1: [[Sleep resistance]]
+<!-- no techs
-==Starting equipment==
+ -->==Starting equipment==
 * +3 [[spoon]]
 * 5 [[candy bar]]s
 * An [[expensive camera]]
 * A [[sack]]
 SlashTHEM replaces the spoon with a +3 [[sharpened pencil]] and the sack with an [[ugly backpack]].  It is significant to note that these are both items from the old Geek role in NetHack-- 3.0.10.  The pencil is a weak [[dagger]]-type weapon, but a useful tool that can [[engrave]] like an [[athame]].
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 ==Quest==
-The [[quest]] sees the Hacker fighting Student Leader for the Master Boot Disk, a neutral [[pack of floppies]] which confers [[reflection]] when carried, and can be [[invoke]]d for [[phasing]].
+The [[quest]] sees the Hacker fighting the [[Student Leader]] for the [[Master Boot Disk]], a neutral [[pack of floppies]] which confers [[reflection]] when carried, and can be [[invoke]]d for [[phasing]].
 ==Gods==
 * Lawful: Jobs
 * Neutral: Wozniak

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 {{todo|Role exists in [[SlashTHEM]] - retool accordingly}}
-The '''Hacker''' is a [[role]] that appears in [[SlashTHEM]]. It is a more challenging version of the Geek role from [[NetHack-- 3.0.10]], an early version of [[SLASH'EM]] (and not to be confused with the [[Geek]] role of [[NetHack: The Next Generation]]).
+The '''Hacker''' is a [[role]] that appears in [[SlashTHEM]]. It is a more challenging version of the Geek role from [[NetHack-- 3.0.10]], an early version of [[SLASH'EM]], and is renamed to avoid confusion with the [[Geek]] role of [[NetHack: The Next Generation]].
 ==Skills==

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 {{todo|Role exists in [[SlashTHEM]] - retool accordingly}}
-The '''Hacker''' is a [[role]] in the variant [[SlashTHEM]].
+The '''Hacker''' is a [[role]] that appears in [[SlashTHEM]]. It is a more challenging version of the Geek role from [[NetHack-- 3.0.10]], an early version of [[SLASH'EM]] (and not to be confused with the [[Geek]] role of [[NetHack: The Next Generation]]).
 ==Skills==
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 ==History==
-The Hacker seems to have its origins in the Geek role in [[NetHack-- 3.0.10]] (a precursor to [[SLASH'EM]]), not to be confused with the [[Geek]] role added in [[NetHack: The Next Generation]].  The Geek was one of nine new roles in NetHack--, in addition to the twelve in [[NetHack 3.0.10|the contemporary version of NetHack]].  The discussion thread in which the authors first announced NetHack-- suggests that some of the new roles were taken from a list proposing a role for every letter of the alphabet. See [https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rec.games.hack/jg8YtQX1M3Y/tbBlteXdYY8J here] for the relevant post.  The post hints that the Geek role, like its NhTNG counterpart, is a tribute to the [[NetHack]] [[player]].
+The Hacker is based directly on the Geek role in NetHack-- 3.0.10, which was one of nine new roles added to the variant. The discussion thread in which the authors first announced NetHack-- suggests that some of the new roles were taken from a list proposing a role for every letter of the alphabet. See [https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rec.games.hack/jg8YtQX1M3Y/tbBlteXdYY8J here] for the relevant post. The post hints that, like the one in NetHack: The Next Generation, this Geek is a tribute to the [[NetHack]] [[player]].
 After the release of [[NetHack 3.1.3]] in 1993, NetHack-- was updated to [[NetHack-- 3.1.3]] by porting some of the changes from NetHack-- 3.0.10 into a patch for the newest version. Due to some changes in the vanilla code, however, some content was removed to improve compatibility with NetHack. Most significantly, NetHack 3.1 had seen the addition of the [[Quest]] branch. To avoid the challenge of fitting full-length quests for the roles that had been added in NetHack-- 3.0.10 into the patch code, those roles were simply left out of the patch.

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-{{todo|Role exists in [[SlashTHEM]] - retool accordingly, perhaps merge [[Geek]] into it and user that for the "actual" SlashTHEM Geek based on the Hacker of NHTNG}}
+{{todo|Role exists in [[SlashTHEM]] - retool accordingly}}
 The '''Hacker''' is a [[role]] in the variant [[SlashTHEM]].
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 There is some evidence that the developer(s) of [[SLASH]] may have wanted to bring back some of the roles, including the Geek, as the DAT folder for [[SLASH 6]] contains unused maps for quest levels for this and other roles that are not actually present in the version.  The quest leader would have been "Stallman" (possibly [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Stallman this one]), the nemesis a [[&|{{white|&}}]] named "Gates", and the quest artifact a [[credit card]] called the Magic Calculator.  The code for the maps indicates that the quest would feature numerous [[x|{{white|x}}]], [[;|{{white|;}}]], [[spider|{{white|s}}]], and [[Snake|{{white|S}}]].
-The Geek role, along with the other eight new roles in NetHack-- 3.0.10, made its reappearance in SlashTHEM, and was renamed the Hacker in order to likely avoid confusion with [[Geek|the better-known Nh-TNG role]]. The connection between the old Geek role and the new Hacker role is more clear in SlashTHEM, which gives the Hacker the Geek's paraphernalia, a [[sharpened pencil]] and an [[ugly backpack]].
+The Geek role, along with the other eight new roles in NetHack-- 3.0.10, made its reappearance in SlashTHEM, and was renamed the Hacker in order to likely avoid confusion with the better-known role from NetHack: The Next Generation. The connection between the old Geek role and the new Hacker role is more clear in SlashTHEM, which gives the Hacker the Geek's paraphernalia, a [[sharpened pencil]] and an [[ugly backpack]].
 ==References==

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 {{todo|Role exists in [[SlashTHEM]] - retool accordingly, perhaps merge [[Geek]] into it and user that for the "actual" SlashTHEM Geek based on the Hacker of NHTNG}}
-The '''Graduate''' is a [[role]] in the variant [[SlashTHEM]].
+The '''Hacker''' is a [[role]] in the variant [[SlashTHEM]].
 It may be seen as a more challenging version of the [[Geek]] role from [[NetHack-- 3.0.10]], an early version of [[SLASH'EM]] ([[NetHack-- 3.0.10]]); the role was dropped from the code at the time the [[quest]] branch was ported into that variant. It was later revived, renamed and given a quest in SlashTHEM.
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 NetHack-- 3.0.10 was based on [[NetHack 3.0.10]], which predated the [[skill]] system, so Geeks could use any weapons.
-SLASHTHEM adjusts and further restricts the Graduate's skill selection:
+SLASHTHEM adjusts and further restricts the Hacker's skill selection:
 {| class="prettytable"
-! colspan="2" style="font-size:larger" | Graduate skills
+! colspan="2" style="font-size:larger" | Hacker skills
 |-
 ! Max !! Skills
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 |}
-The Graduate's [[special spell]] is cure hallucination.  Spell success is determined by [[wisdom]].
+The Hacker's [[special spell]] is cure hallucination.  Spell success is determined by [[wisdom]].
 *SLASHTHEM u_init.c line 1670 in v. 0.8
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 ==Quest==
-The [[quest]] sees the Graduate fighting Student Leader for the Master Boot Disk, a neutral [[pack of floppies]] which confers [[reflection]] when carried, and can be [[invoke]]d for [[phasing]].
+The [[quest]] sees the Hacker fighting Student Leader for the Master Boot Disk, a neutral [[pack of floppies]] which confers [[reflection]] when carried, and can be [[invoke]]d for [[phasing]].
 ==Gods==
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 ==History==
-The Graduate seems to have its origins in the Geek role in [[NetHack-- 3.0.10]] (a precursor to [[SLASH'EM]]), not to be confused with the [[Geek]] role added in [[NetHack: The Next Generation]].  The Geek was one of nine new roles in NetHack--, in addition to the twelve in [[NetHack 3.0.10|the contemporary version of NetHack]].  The discussion thread in which the authors first announced NetHack-- suggests that some of the new roles were taken from a list proposing a role for every letter of the alphabet. See [https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rec.games.hack/jg8YtQX1M3Y/tbBlteXdYY8J here] for the relevant post.  The post hints that the Geek role, like its NhTNG counterpart, is a tribute to the [[NetHack]] [[player]].
+The Hacker seems to have its origins in the Geek role in [[NetHack-- 3.0.10]] (a precursor to [[SLASH'EM]]), not to be confused with the [[Geek]] role added in [[NetHack: The Next Generation]].  The Geek was one of nine new roles in NetHack--, in addition to the twelve in [[NetHack 3.0.10|the contemporary version of NetHack]].  The discussion thread in which the authors first announced NetHack-- suggests that some of the new roles were taken from a list proposing a role for every letter of the alphabet. See [https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rec.games.hack/jg8YtQX1M3Y/tbBlteXdYY8J here] for the relevant post.  The post hints that the Geek role, like its NhTNG counterpart, is a tribute to the [[NetHack]] [[player]].
 After the release of [[NetHack 3.1.3]] in 1993, NetHack-- was updated to [[NetHack-- 3.1.3]] by porting some of the changes from NetHack-- 3.0.10 into a patch for the newest version. Due to some changes in the vanilla code, however, some content was removed to improve compatibility with NetHack. Most significantly, NetHack 3.1 had seen the addition of the [[Quest]] branch. To avoid the challenge of fitting full-length quests for the roles that had been added in NetHack-- 3.0.10 into the patch code, those roles were simply left out of the patch.
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 There is some evidence that the developer(s) of [[SLASH]] may have wanted to bring back some of the roles, including the Geek, as the DAT folder for [[SLASH 6]] contains unused maps for quest levels for this and other roles that are not actually present in the version.  The quest leader would have been "Stallman" (possibly [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Stallman this one]), the nemesis a [[&|{{white|&}}]] named "Gates", and the quest artifact a [[credit card]] called the Magic Calculator.  The code for the maps indicates that the quest would feature numerous [[x|{{white|x}}]], [[;|{{white|;}}]], [[spider|{{white|s}}]], and [[Snake|{{white|S}}]].
-The Geek role, along with the other eight new roles in NetHack-- 3.0.10, made its reappearance in SlashTHEM, and was renamed the Graduate in order to likely avoid confusion with [[Geek|the better-known Nh-TNG role]]. The connection between the old Geek role and the new Graduate role is more clear in SlashTHEM, which gives the Graduate the Geek's paraphernalia, a [[sharpened pencil]] and an [[ugly backpack]].
+The Geek role, along with the other eight new roles in NetHack-- 3.0.10, made its reappearance in SlashTHEM, and was renamed the Hacker in order to likely avoid confusion with [[Geek|the better-known Nh-TNG role]]. The connection between the old Geek role and the new Hacker role is more clear in SlashTHEM, which gives the Hacker the Geek's paraphernalia, a [[sharpened pencil]] and an [[ugly backpack]].
-There does not appear to be any connection between the Graduate role and the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Graduate 1967 American film] of the same name.
+There does not appear to be any connection between the Hacker role and the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Graduate 1967 American film] of the same name.
 ==References==
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 * NetHack-- 3.0.10 attrib.c line 62
 * NetHack-- 3.0.10 u_init.c line 239
+{{variant-343}}
-[[Category:SlashTHEM]]
+[[Category:SlashTHEM roles]]

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 The '''Graduate''' is a [[role]] in the variant [[SlashTHEM]]. It may be seen as a more challenging version of the [[Geek]] role from [[NetHack: The Next Generation]].
-The Graduate is based on an even earlier "Geek" role which appeared in an early version of [[SLASH'EM]] ([[NetHack-- 3.0.10]]) but was dropped from the code at the time the [[quest]] branch was ported into that variant.  The role was later revived, renamed, and given a quest in Slash'EM Extended.
+The Graduate is based on an even earlier "Geek" role which appeared in an early version of [[SLASH'EM]] ([[NetHack-- 3.0.10]]) but was dropped from the code at the time the [[quest]] branch was ported into that variant.  The role was later revived, renamed, and given a quest in SlashTHEM.
 ==Skills==
 NetHack-- 3.0.10 was based on [[NetHack 3.0.10]], which predated the [[skill]] system, so Geeks could use any weapons.
 SLASHTHEM adjusts and further restricts the Graduate's skill selection:
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 The Graduate's [[special spell]] is cure hallucination.  Spell success is determined by [[wisdom]].
 *SLASHTHEM u_init.c line 1670 in v. 0.8
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 *NetHack-- 3.0.10 u_init.c line 239
 *SLASHTHEM u_init.c line 335 in v. 0.8
 ==Rank titles==
 SLASHTHEM has a different set of rank titles:
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 * XL 26-29: Senior Developer
 * XL 30: Kernel Maintainer
 SLASHTHEM role.c line 682
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 The Graduate seems to have its origins in the Geek role in [[NetHack-- 3.0.10]] (a precursor to [[SLASH'EM]]), not to be confused with the [[Geek]] role added in [[NetHack: The Next Generation]].  The Geek was one of nine new roles in NetHack--, in addition to the twelve in [[NetHack 3.0.10|the contemporary version of NetHack]].  The discussion thread in which the authors first announced NetHack-- suggests that some of the new roles were taken from a list proposing a role for every letter of the alphabet. See [https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rec.games.hack/jg8YtQX1M3Y/tbBlteXdYY8J here] for the relevant post.  The post hints that the Geek role, like its NhTNG counterpart, is a tribute to the [[NetHack]] [[player]].
-After the release of [[NetHack 3.1.3]] in 1993, NetHack-- was updated to [[NetHack-- 3.1.3]] by porting some of the changes from NetHack-- 3.0.10 into a patch for the newest version.  Due to some changes in the vanilla code, however, some content was removed to improve compatibility with NetHack.  Most significantly, NetHack 3.1 had seen the addition of the [[Quest]] branch.  To avoid the challenge of fitting full-length quests for the roles that had been added in NetHack-- 3.0.10 into the patch code, those roles were simply left out of the patch.
+After the release of [[NetHack 3.1.3]] in 1993, NetHack-- was updated to [[NetHack-- 3.1.3]] by porting some of the changes from NetHack-- 3.0.10 into a patch for the newest version. Due to some changes in the vanilla code, however, some content was removed to improve compatibility with NetHack. Most significantly, NetHack 3.1 had seen the addition of the [[Quest]] branch. To avoid the challenge of fitting full-length quests for the roles that had been added in NetHack-- 3.0.10 into the patch code, those roles were simply left out of the patch.
 There is some evidence that the developer(s) of [[SLASH]] may have wanted to bring back some of the roles, including the Geek, as the DAT folder for [[SLASH 6]] contains unused maps for quest levels for this and other roles that are not actually present in the version.  The quest leader would have been "Stallman" (possibly [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Stallman this one]), the nemesis a [[&|{{white|&}}]] named "Gates", and the quest artifact a [[credit card]] called the Magic Calculator.  The code for the maps indicates that the quest would feature numerous [[x|{{white|x}}]], [[;|{{white|;}}]], [[spider|{{white|s}}]], and [[Snake|{{white|S}}]].
-The Geek role, along with the other eight new roles in NetHack-- 3.0.10, made its reappearance in the variant Slash'EM Extended, renamed the Graduate, probably to avoid confusion with [[Geek|the better-known Nh-TNG role]]. The connection between the old Geek role and the new Graduate role is more clear in SlashTHEM, which gives the Graduate the Geek's paraphernalia, a [[sharpened pencil]] and an [[ugly backpack]].
+The Geek role, along with the other eight new roles in NetHack-- 3.0.10, made its reappearance in SlashTHEM, and was renamed the Graduate in order to likely avoid confusion with [[Geek|the better-known Nh-TNG role]]. The connection between the old Geek role and the new Graduate role is more clear in SlashTHEM, which gives the Graduate the Geek's paraphernalia, a [[sharpened pencil]] and an [[ugly backpack]].
 There does not appear to be any connection between the Graduate role and the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Graduate 1967 American film] of the same name.