Gary in an IM, summarizing quite well what makes NetHack so cool:

"to me..the appeal of the game is that like...every other game in the word is built so that you you're meant to get to the end, beat it and win..while this game is like...uhhhhhhhno, fuck you"

Jen: why is it 85 degrees out?
Gary: the atmosphere and the sun combine together to trap heat next to the planet
Jen: but it snowed 8 inches last week
Gary: the atmosphere and the sun were drunk on tequila that week
Jen: LOL ah

Jen: I hated the wallpaper in my old room
Mark: why?
Jen: because it didnt have flowers on it...
Mark: the fungus/bloodspatter pattern is rather quaint :-)
Jen: it had weeds on crack on a paisley pattern
Mark: mmm paisley
Jen: it was the 70s when my parents picked it out
Jen: they were probably on drugs
Mark: and everyone was on drugs that decade
Mark: lol
Mark: beat me to it
Jen: lol
Mark: we rck :-)
Mark: rock
Jen: :-D
Mark: wonder twin powers, activate! FORM: A COMPLETE SENTENCE!!

So I [Jen] am reading The History of the Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire for my Political Science class. For those that don't know, this book is 700 pages long (and that's just the condensed version) and was written in the 1700s in that god-awful antiquated, flowery language. Due to my sheer hatred for this book, I tend to leave my reading assignments for the night before they're due, and somehow in that night read and summarize 150-200 pages of this crap.

Jen: *rewrites Roman history again*
Vic: AGAIN
Jen: lol. after tonight, I only have roughly 100 pages left to read & summarize.
Jen: I'm still trying to figure out how I'm getting A's and B's on these things..
Jen: my classmates must be doing AWFUL
Vic: How long were these Romans chugging along? Isn't it about time for the big meteor to hit the Yucatan Peninsula and make them all extinct
Vic: :P
Jen: i'm in 530 AD
Vic: blah
Jen: Goths are trying to take Rome from Belisarius
Jen: *pictures Goths dressed in the latest from Hot Topic marching through Italy*
Vic: Aren't they always.
Vic: LOL!
Jen: "and after Dark Raven slayed Belisarius, he wrote a poem about how the war, while necessary, made him want to slit his wrists."
Vic: ROFL

On our Winamp playlists:

Vic: *plays "like a virgin"*
Jen: lol
Jen: i'm playing "hell"
Vic: LOL!