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		<title>Cathartes: /* List of all impossible states? */ reply</title>
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		<updated>2023-06-23T21:01:57Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;autocomment&quot;&gt;List of all impossible states?: &lt;/span&gt; reply&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;As someone who&amp;#039;s been playing for a tremendously long time but only run into one impossible ever (attacking with a destroyed cream pie), I&amp;#039;ve always been utterly fascinated by them, but attempting to root through the code for them as someone who doesn&amp;#039;t really read source code often is both difficult and often not terribly illuminating (as the impossible messages are often after conditions I cannot interpret). Does anyone happen to have a list of all of the impossible conditions? I&amp;#039;d love to read it.[[User:Fuzzyjammies|Fuzzyjammies]] ([[User talk:Fuzzyjammies|talk]]) 19:46, 23 June 2023 (UTC)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;As someone who&amp;#039;s been playing for a tremendously long time but only run into one impossible ever (attacking with a destroyed cream pie), I&amp;#039;ve always been utterly fascinated by them, but attempting to root through the code for them as someone who doesn&amp;#039;t really read source code often is both difficult and often not terribly illuminating (as the impossible messages are often after conditions I cannot interpret). Does anyone happen to have a list of all of the impossible conditions? I&amp;#039;d love to read it.[[User:Fuzzyjammies|Fuzzyjammies]] ([[User talk:Fuzzyjammies|talk]]) 19:46, 23 June 2023 (UTC)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; class=&quot;diff-side-deleted&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;:There are about 524 instances of &amp;lt;code&amp;gt;impossible(&amp;lt;/code&amp;gt; in the 3.6.7 source code (a bit less after accounting for comments), so I doubt anyone compiled a list of all of them.  You can find them yourself with [[grep]]: run &amp;lt;code&amp;gt;grep -n &#039;impossible(&#039; -r&amp;lt;/code&amp;gt; from the top level directory of the NetHack source distribution. [[User:Cathartes|Cathartes]] ([[User talk:Cathartes|talk]]) 21:01, 23 June 2023 (UTC)&lt;/ins&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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		<author><name>Cathartes</name></author>
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		<title>Fuzzyjammies: editing header</title>
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		<updated>2023-06-23T19:46:30Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;editing header&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;=&lt;/del&gt;==List of all impossible states?&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;=&lt;/del&gt;==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;==List of all impossible states?==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;As someone who&#039;s been playing for a tremendously long time but only run into one impossible ever (attacking with a destroyed cream pie), I&#039;ve always been utterly fascinated by them, but attempting to root through the code for them as someone who doesn&#039;t really read source code often is both difficult and often not terribly illuminating (as the impossible messages are often after conditions I cannot interpret). Does anyone happen to have a list of all of the impossible conditions? I&#039;d love to read it.[[User:Fuzzyjammies|Fuzzyjammies]] ([[User talk:Fuzzyjammies|talk]]) 19:&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;45&lt;/del&gt;, 23 June 2023 (UTC)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;As someone who&#039;s been playing for a tremendously long time but only run into one impossible ever (attacking with a destroyed cream pie), I&#039;ve always been utterly fascinated by them, but attempting to root through the code for them as someone who doesn&#039;t really read source code often is both difficult and often not terribly illuminating (as the impossible messages are often after conditions I cannot interpret). Does anyone happen to have a list of all of the impossible conditions? I&#039;d love to read it.[[User:Fuzzyjammies|Fuzzyjammies]] ([[User talk:Fuzzyjammies|talk]]) 19:&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;46&lt;/ins&gt;, 23 June 2023 (UTC)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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		<author><name>Fuzzyjammies</name></author>
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		<title>Fuzzyjammies: impossible list</title>
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		<updated>2023-06-23T19:46:03Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;impossible list&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;New page&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;===List of all impossible states?===&lt;br /&gt;
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As someone who&amp;#039;s been playing for a tremendously long time but only run into one impossible ever (attacking with a destroyed cream pie), I&amp;#039;ve always been utterly fascinated by them, but attempting to root through the code for them as someone who doesn&amp;#039;t really read source code often is both difficult and often not terribly illuminating (as the impossible messages are often after conditions I cannot interpret). Does anyone happen to have a list of all of the impossible conditions? I&amp;#039;d love to read it.[[User:Fuzzyjammies|Fuzzyjammies]] ([[User talk:Fuzzyjammies|talk]]) 19:45, 23 June 2023 (UTC)&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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