Thoughts of Petra...
I have to admit that having my girlfriend named as one of the Seven Wonders of the World is pretty cool. And she has been there, too. She's pretty cool herself.
I have to admit a secret delight that I've turned Petra into a complete and total Nethack addict. I introduced her to it at Mut Mee to her moanings of how she hated computer games and how complicated it was; just days later, she could be seen entering a Nethack fugue that left her seriously unresponsive to her surrounding physical environment.
The idea of having a girlfriend just as into games I like fulfills a whole lot of high school fantasies. Although I also have to admit feeling a slight blow to that high school manhood by discovering how much better a player she is than I am. She's really taken the time to learn the game and constantly work through her inventories to make sure she has that All Important Wand at the right time. She also has the best knack of getting her pets to do just what she wants them to, which just makes me furious; although I know pets can be useful in the game, I can starve to death before my dog steals something out of a shop while Petra's pets loot the entire store and bring everything right to her. Although I have to admit to an abiding but somewhat medieval Nethcak view of pets back from the days of playing the game's predecessor Hack, where we would frequently name our pets "Wandtester" and "Food Ration". They had different uses back then, and maybe my pets in Nethack always sense that about me.
I have to admit a secret delight that I've turned Petra into a complete and total Nethack addict. I introduced her to it at Mut Mee to her moanings of how she hated computer games and how complicated it was; just days later, she could be seen entering a Nethack fugue that left her seriously unresponsive to her surrounding physical environment.
The idea of having a girlfriend just as into games I like fulfills a whole lot of high school fantasies. Although I also have to admit feeling a slight blow to that high school manhood by discovering how much better a player she is than I am. She's really taken the time to learn the game and constantly work through her inventories to make sure she has that All Important Wand at the right time. She also has the best knack of getting her pets to do just what she wants them to, which just makes me furious; although I know pets can be useful in the game, I can starve to death before my dog steals something out of a shop while Petra's pets loot the entire store and bring everything right to her. Although I have to admit to an abiding but somewhat medieval Nethcak view of pets back from the days of playing the game's predecessor Hack, where we would frequently name our pets "Wandtester" and "Food Ration". They had different uses back then, and maybe my pets in Nethack always sense that about me.