Apparently I've never ascended Caveman, Rogue or Ranger on Hardfought, so maybe I'll do those just for the hell of it. I think I have an unfinished Knight run in progress on 3.7 tho. might have to do that first.

Hum-Cha-Bar run. Very straightforward. Aligned Minetown altar into Cleaver for the whole run. 2 early wishes gave me Reflection and MR so I was never at risk. Accidentally converted myself on the altar in my quest after killing too many peacefuls which was funny, but didn't change anything. EZPZ

Goku and Pikachu are probably the only anime characters they know by name, so I gotta at least give partial credit.

Made it like 70% through a run with a chaotic barb but ran out of time. I’ll finish it later.

4th and final win for the year I think. I play too slow to get another one. Wish starved run. No lamps & 0:1 wand. 4 wands of death and 3 of polymorph let me get everything I needed though.
Run was super chill. Basically was never in danger. Ran snickersnee all game. Wish the tsurugi was better.

6 people from 3 different flights missed the connection by less than 20 minutes. Not holding the door on the last flight out when there’s already a jam at de-ice is crazy. Very frustrating turn of events.

Just pulled off the “I can kill this werewolf > first bite lycanthropy > all my armor explodes > die” true combo.
Idk why I’m having so much trouble getting a samurai run off the ground of all classes lol

One of the producers on Guilty Gear Strive said it was basically impossible to source player feedback on balance changes online because nobody had original opinions and would just parrot what the most popular content creators said and so they had to rely on data and I think about that every day.

Good guess, but it’s “The November Nethack Tournament”

Decided to do a Neutral Monk next. Had wack luck with artifacts, but found a bunch of late game wishes so I got the PYEC and EotA anyway. Running through all of midgame with giantslayer sucked tho. Also didn't find a uni horn til like floor 23. Bad luck with spellbooks too despite finding 30 spells.

Got shocked to death by a chest 15 minutes in, but the following run has ascended.
Silly run. Early armor chop was nice, but it didn't have too much. 1st sac cleaver, but a gnome with grimtooth on the same floor nuked artifact wishing chances.
No unicorns until Gehennom was a drag.
Easy run overall.

Gonna go for a tourist next.

EZPZ ascension. The scroll shop trivialized the early game and then an extra WoW was just icing on the cake.

Early HoOA let me wish for the MKoT but I lost in in the quest when my nemesis first hit stole it lol. The Helm still made the ascension run super easy tho.

Very straightforward run overall

Ooh round 3 going super well so far. Shaky start dealing with lycanthropy, bur already have MR and a +6 Excalibur. Early scroll shops are the best. -9 AC and a uni horn have me decently safe. Just gotta avoid getting one-dunked by poison or something stupid like that.

Ate a chickatrice thinking it was a pyrolisk. Run would have been free too. I’m so stupid lmao

Round 3. Knight 3.

Accidentally wielded my blindfold instead of wearing it before attacking a floating eye. 10/10 would play again.

Round 2. Another knight.

1987

The game was horrendously balanced but got some patches that drastically shifted things around.
At launch, because of the way damage worked, it was impossible to kill the ghostlop characters with pressure and they were also way better at quota because the linepull button hadn’t been implemented yet.