I just wanted to say that I'm not restarting every run: Out of my first three runs, I was killed on the first two, while I was still figuring out how things worked. I got very badly cursed on my third run, after an extended famine right out of the gate, before I could get any real resiliency. The curses snowballed pretty quickly into an unwinnable game. On the fourth run, I was very careful to manage hunger and weapons, and--with a bit of luck--sailed through to the end.