Yet Another Funny Message
Yet Another Funny Message (YAFM) is any funny message you might receive during the game.
Intentional funny messages usually come up in rare circumstances and are good instances of The DevTeam Thinks Of Everything. Some examples:
- The water elemental is boiling!
- A water elemental was hit by fire damage.
- Oh look, what a pretty fire in your hands.
- You read a scroll of fire while confused and fire resistant.
- It seems even darker in here than before.
- You created magical darkness from a cursed scroll of light, while swallowed by a monster.
When multiple unrelated messages combine into a funny phrase, it is a YAFMC (Yet Another Funny Message Combination):
- You are standing at the gate to Gehennom. Unspeakable cruelty and harm lurk down there. Are you sure you want to enter? So be it. You fall down the stairs.
- You drop an uncursed cockatrice corpse. It explodes!
- You begin praying to Amaterasu Omikami. You are surrounded by a shimmering light. "Come here often?"
The term YAFM is often used interchangeably with the similar terms YAFMC (Yet Another Funny Message Combination), YASM (Yet Another Silly Message), and YAFP (Yet Another Funny Prompt). The funny message combination refers to a sequence of messages that is funny. Such sequences are often paused with the --More-- prompt. Funny prompt is a prompt where the available inventory letters together form a word or another odd combination.
The origin of all of these terms is probably rec.games.roguelike.nethack.
| An example of an unintentional funny message |
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| The Amulet of Yendor cannot be confined in such trappings. "Burrrrp!" |
External links
- The Yet Another Stupid Death Online also has some YAFMs
- rec.games.roguelike.nethack: Shawn Moore: NetHack prompt words (YAFP)
