best irc channel

I've never seen a channel like this. While you know big huge channels like kde and gentoo and such probably always have a conversation or help question/answer going on, I'm amazed because this is a text based game not in the mold of Zork :) #nethack on irc.freenode.net has to be the best irc channel ever. nethack is such a consuming game, if you want to be good you have to suffer literally hundreds and hundreds of deaths, after giving it your best shot for minutes or hours. Yet, this channel, everytime I log on, there is always a conversation going on. It doesn't matter what time of day it is, it's always hopping. I am ashamed that I never have delved into this game really, I've had a few couple-week spurts (usually with some graphical derivative) but always pulled out because I recognized I have to make time to do everything else but play a game :) It always revigorates my faith in humanity to log onto irc, and this channel, and to discover cool people talking about a cool game. I'm serious, this channel has never let me down. It's always hopping :)

I still don't have time to play nethack. Maybe someday :) Well, I guess I'll try a game now, but don't expect me to last too long :)