Hacking the Net

Nethack is a good analogy of life. Lots of people try to seek the impossible and just when they think they are doing well, they are brutally murdered, while helpless. It also tells you that the moon matters. For instance today I had my best character ever (a dwarven Valkyrie) and I went about half way past minetown and then back up. In Minetown there was a chickatrice (baby cockatrice). I didn't want to meele it so it took forever to kill it with a single thrown dagger. But I killed it and got cocky. I went back up the the Dungeon of Doom and started to look for the oracle. On level 8 I opened a door and was mobbed by Wargs. I killed them all and without realising it I also killed a cockatrice and escaped unharmed. That made me even more cocky. Then later on that level i met another cockatrice. I killed it but it stoned me. Since it was the new moon and I didn't have a lizard corpse the cockatrice had a 100% chance of killing me when it hissed. I was stoned. It sucked. Ecspecialy since the oracle was most likely on that level or the one under me. Now I have shared my grief.