I typically play on public servers to avoid any save game temptations, or the reverse, removing terrifying bones infested with rogue pet vampires and cursed artifacts...
I'm disappointed that DJB didn't automate polypiling until he got what he wanted, rather than just rolling new characters until getting the desired combination of resources. At that point, I'd just say that save game editing and RNG grinding are comparable...
If you're reading this, DJB, thanks for all the awesome and weird tools! Perhaps you're not as widely attributed as you should be but I see your influences everywhere in modern unix.
(edited to change "fingerprints" to "influences" -- things like systemd or the later solaris init replacement are clearly a funhouse mirror re-imagning of daemontools and family -- but fingerprints implies that DJB touched these things which I'm pretty confident he didn't)
I'm disappointed that DJB didn't automate polypiling until he got what he wanted, rather than just rolling new characters until getting the desired combination of resources. At that point, I'd just say that save game editing and RNG grinding are comparable...
If you're reading this, DJB, thanks for all the awesome and weird tools! Perhaps you're not as widely attributed as you should be but I see your influences everywhere in modern unix.
(edited to change "fingerprints" to "influences" -- things like systemd or the later solaris init replacement are clearly a funhouse mirror re-imagning of daemontools and family -- but fingerprints implies that DJB touched these things which I'm pretty confident he didn't)