Life's Work Ruined: Difference between revisions

== [[Real Life]] ==

* Subverted in [[Real Life]] with Sir Isaac Newton. In his early career he was not very good at getting himself published, he tended to just let the finished work pile up on his desk. One day his dog knocked over a candle and much of his life's work up to that point went up in flames. So he sat down and wrote it all out again. "Diamond! Thou little knowest the mischief thou hast done!".

* [http://nethackwiki.com/wiki/DeathOnAStick DeathOnAStick], who spent a year and a half on a single game of ''[[Nethack]]'', spending most of that time collecting rocks, transforming them into gems, putting them into [[Bag of Holding|bags]], and creating [[Monster Allies|pet giants]] to hold the bags full of gems. Then he accidentally drank a cursed potion of gain level, which moves you up a ''[[Stealth Pun|dungeon]]'' level, which put him past a [[Point of No Return]]. Without his gems.