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This is very funny.

I spent three months playing Moria, back when I was on vacation between my York degree and going to Toronto, living in greater Leatherhead with Colin, and generally being bored. I played it long enough that - with lots of helpful force-quits along the way, I admit - I killed the Balrog.

ZAngband is a much better game, qua game. There's much more variety to it. I like having a large world with lots of towns to wander around in. There are many unique characters in the game too - such as Grendel - characters you will only be able to kill once. There is also lots of unique armor. In this case, it's worth doing an ID even on things as unexiting as filthy rags - once in a blue moon, they'll be very powerful filthy rags.

Colin found Zangband, but I'm the one whose been playing it, off and on, over the past several months. We introduced Colin's middle brother to it to, a guy who previously had basically nothing to do with computers. He's now a regular zangband player too, and has made it quite far in his months of off-and-on again playing.

If you're worrying about vivas potentially interfering with conferences, I presume that means you're due to submit in the rather near future?