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What is your favorite example of "devs thought of everything"? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
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[–] 7 points 2 months ago (1 child)

TDTTOE goes way back! I first heard the phrase when I discovered Nethack. My favorite example from that game is when you try to dip a potion into itself you get: "This is a potion bottle, not a Klein bottle!"

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 2 months ago

    Roguelikes are generally very good with the trope. In Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup, when you exhaust a manual's bonus to experience, you get a message "You finish reading your manual and throw it away". But if the manual you were finished with was dedicated to the skill of throwing weapons, you get this special message instead: "you finish reading your manual and masterfully toss it away."

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