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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: What's going on in your fort?
« on: August 20, 2020, 04:28:05 am »
(edited highlights, but chronologically in order)

Fairly normal fort, set in the hills on the outskirts of dwarven civilisation, near a few frendly goblins, and just in range for the warring elves to send the odd ambush perfect for training the military. So I thought I'd set up my first library. We've just survived a loyalty cascafe caused by the former mayor being unable to finish a strange mood. Maybe education could help prevent future pointless infighting?

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Sodel Unibthîkut, Goblin Scholar frozen ghoul is visiting.
Wow, that's really interesting! Surely the peaceful nature of academia can help my dwarves to understand how to get along with people of different opinions, temperatures, races and livingness?

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Mörul Imushital, Fisherdwarf is throwing a tantrum!
Ah, the civil war has cast a long shadow. Some, sadly, can't let go of their anger. Nothing that our guardsdwarves can't keep under control...

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Bookcase toppled by Mörul Imushital, Fisherdwarf.
Bookcase toppled by Mörul Imushital, Fisherdwarf.
Bookcase toppled eh? Well he must be in the Library...

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The fisherdwarf misses the goblin scholar frozen ghoul!
Guards? Guards!!!

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The fisherdwarf punches the goblin scholar frozen ghoul in the right lower leg with his right hand, bruising the muscle through the (alpaca wool robe)!
The fisherdwarf punches the goblin scholar frozen ghoul in the left lower arm with his right hand, bruising the muscle through the (reindeer leather cloak)!
The fisherdwarf punches the goblin scholar frozen ghoul in the left hand with his right hand, bruising the muscle through the (pig leather left mitten)!
The force bends the left wrist!
The fisherdwarf punches the goblin scholar frozen ghoul in the right lower arm with his right hand, bruising the skin through the (reindeer leather cloak)!
Maybe he'll just laugh it off?

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The goblin scholar frozen ghoul stands up.
The bone doctor attacks the goblin scholar frozen ghoul but He jumps away!
The militia commander misses the goblin scholar frozen ghoul!
The goblin scholar frozen ghoul grabs the militia commander by the left lower arm with his right lower arm!
The stray keet misses the goblin scholar frozen ghoul!
The goblin scholar frozen ghoul punches the militia commander in the left foot with his left hand, but the attack is deflected by the militia commander's ≡iron high boot≡!
The militia commander misses the goblin scholar frozen ghoul!
Alternatively, he'll just strike out and attack our general. At least he's armoured!

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Bookcase toppled by Mörul Imushital, Fisherdwarf.
Meanwhile, Mörul continues his crusade against education. I guess he really doesn't like books?

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The stray keet snatches at the goblin scholar frozen ghoul in the right lower leg with her first toe, right foot, bruising the skin through the (alpaca wool robe)!
The buck rabbit scratches the goblin scholar frozen ghoul in the left hand, bruising the skin through the (pig leather left mitten)!
The stray keet snatches at the goblin scholar frozen ghoul in the left upper arm with her first toe, left foot, bruising the skin through the (reindeer leather cloak)!
The stray water buffalo calf misses the goblin scholar frozen ghoul!
The buck rabbit misses the goblin scholar frozen ghoul!
The animals decide to pile in. I'm not sure why there's a water buffalo in the library, but so long as it's being quiet, it isn't breaking the rules

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The goblin scholar frozen ghoul punches the buck rabbit in the right front paw with his left hand, but the attack glances away!
Rabbit Jackie Chan decides to showboat his kung fu skills.

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The goblin scholar frozen ghoul punches the buck rabbit in the right rear leg with his left hand and the injured part is smashed into the body, an unrecognizable mass!
An artery has been opened by the attack!
The buck rabbit gives in to pain.
Tulon Kizbizkilrud, Buck Rabbit (Tame) has been found dead.
...with predictable results

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The goblin scholar frozen ghoul grabs the soap maker by the head with his right upper arm!
The soap maker misses the goblin scholar frozen ghoul!
The goblin scholar frozen ghoul punches the soap maker in the left lower arm with his right hand, bruising the muscle through the (giant cave spider silk cloak)!
The force pulls the left elbow, tearing apart the muscle and tearing apart the muscle!
The goblin scholar frozen ghoul throws the soap maker by the head with The goblin scholar frozen ghoul's right upper arm!
The soap maker slams into an obstacle!
The scholar turns his attention back to the two-legged residents, despatching the weaker ones with brutal force.

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The axedwarf punches the goblin scholar frozen ghoul in the right hand with her right hand, bruising the muscle through the (pig leather right mitten)!
More of the military shows up and decides that using weapons is just not good manners.

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Urist Thukkanzas, Soap Maker: I've been wounded.  No, that's not annoying.
Mörul Imushital, Fisherdwarf: Gruesome wounds!  Ahhhhhhh!  No!
Tirist Kodustuth, Gem Setter: I've been injured badly.  This leaves me so shaken.
The fight is surrounded by the screams and shouts of the wounded.

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The goblin scholar frozen ghoul punches the stray lamb in the right front hoof with his left hand and the severed part sails off in an arc!
The goblin scholar frozen ghoul punches the stray lamb in the head with his left hand and the injured part collapses!
An artery has been opened by the attack!
The stray lamb has been knocked unconscious!
The Stray Lamb (Tame) has been found dead.
The goblin scholar frozen ghoul punches the stray keet in the head with his left hand and the injured part explodes into gore!
An artery has been opened by the attack!
The Stray Keet (Tame) has been found dead.
The goblin scholar frozen ghoul punches the dog in the head with his left hand and the injured part collapses into a lump of gore!
An artery has been opened by the attack!
Urist Nishedëm, Dog (Tame) has been found dead.
More animal casualties of this pointless bipedal conflict. Still, if you're going to go, "head punched off by a white walker" is a lot cooler than "turned into meat and minced together with acorns"

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The goblin scholar frozen ghoul punches the peasant in the head with his right hand, bruising the muscle through the x≡goose leather hood≡x!
The force pulls the neck, tearing apart the fat and bruising the muscle and tearing apart the upper spine's nervous tissue!
A tendon in the upper spine has been torn!
The peasant falls over.
'Tis but a flesh wound...

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Mörul Imushital, Fisherdwarf: I toppled something over.  I'm so regretful.
Mistêm Zonvutok, Peasant has been found dead.
They say it's better to regret things you did than regret what you didn't do, but I think Mörul might disagree

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The dwarf stonecrafter necromancer gestures!
The dwarf axedwarf cold ghoul shudders and begins to move!
The dwarf cold ghoul shudders and begins to move!
The dwarf farmer cold ghoul shudders and begins to move!
The dwarf cold ghoul shudders and begins to move!
The dwarf weaponsmith cold ghoul shudders and begins to move!
The dwarf stonecrafter necromancer gestures!
Reindeer bull skeleton shudders and begins to move!
Tulon Kizbizkilrud's corpse shudders and begins to move!
Vucar Cattenkifed has become a Dwarf cold ghoul.
A passing necromancer thinks that what this fight needs is more undead! I'm not sure that's such a great idea...

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The peasant punches reindeer bull skeleton in the upper body with his right hand, but the attack glances away!
Reindeer bull skeleton kicks the gelder in the right hand with his right rear hoof, bruising the fat through the (cave spider silk right mitten)!
The dwarf cold ghoul misses the goblin scholar frozen ghoul!
The goblin scholar frozen ghoul attacks the dwarf cold ghoul but He jumps away!
The axedwarf hacks the axedwarf in the upper body with her (iron battle axe), but the attack is deflected by the axedwarf's ≡iron breastplate≡!
The bookbinder bites reindeer bull skeleton in the right front hoof, but the attack glances away!
The bookbinder latches on firmly!
It's now a total melee of undead, dwarfs, pets and military. No-one has a clue who is on what side. 'Side' barely has a meaning at all.

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The axedwarf hacks the goblin scholar frozen ghoul in the head with her (iron battle axe) and the injured part is cloven asunder!
A tendon in the skull has been torn!
The XX(goose leather head veil)XX breaks!
The (iron battle axe) has lodged firmly in the wound!
Finally one of the axedwarves remembers that they're holding a weapon, and uses it effectively. Hopefully this will all be over soon...

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The axedwarf hacks the scholar in the upper body with her (iron battle axe), tearing apart the muscle and tearing apart the heart through the X(cave spider silk cloak)X!
An artery has been opened by the attack!
A major artery in the heart has been opened by the attack!
Unfortunately it turns out she's even less of a fan of learning than Mörul !

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Goden Imushnëlas, Dwarf cold ghoul cancels Seek Infant: Too injured.
There are no winners...

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DF General Discussion / Re: Dwarf Fortress' Negative Representation of Migrants and Refugees
« on: February 06, 2018, 10:37:34 am »
Quote from: thvaz on February 01, 2018, 10:38:52 am
Joke------------------>
                    you

At least I hope it is a joke.
Jokes were outlawed three years ago.

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DF General Discussion / Re: Is playing dwarf fortress ethical?
« on: February 06, 2018, 08:56:53 am »
Even irrational and transcendent numbers can be represented by their properties. For instance it's impossible to write down π, but that doesn't mean I can't do accurate calculations with it

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DF General Discussion / Re: Done with antivirus
« on: February 06, 2018, 08:43:13 am »
Quote from: CrocAndBearLover on February 06, 2018, 06:59:02 am
Nah, it's garbage. It doesn't recognize browser hijackers. OP should use Malwarebytes Anti-Malware, which is extremely good against malware/viruses and marks something harmless as malware only if it's pirated stuff. Fairly good performance as well. The only bad experience I had with MAM, is that some user avatars on this forums considered dangerous.
MBAM all day, every day, for me. And I've been using AV programs since the Norton DOS days

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DF General Discussion / Re: Is playing dwarf fortress ethical?
« on: February 06, 2018, 08:39:28 am »
Quote from: Rolan7 on January 08, 2018, 03:33:14 am
And so it went, along that strange assumption.
For a scientific debate, there was an awful lot of bad logic going on (or in the report at least):

"But the argument strikes Tegmark as flawed. For one, he asked, what would prevent an infinite chain of universes each simulating another below it?"

Nothing, but that doesn't preclude a finite chain either. Just because I had a father and a grandfather, it doesn't mean that history is infinite.

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DF General Discussion / Re: Dwarf Fortress for the BLind: Advice sought
« on: February 06, 2018, 08:24:49 am »
I wonder if DF might work as an 'interpreted' game?

The stories that you love about DF require a great leap of imagination to get from the screen to the narrative. The user interface is an absolute horror show from an accessibility point of view, and the user has to ignore big chunks of stuff and heavily imagineer their way around others.

But perhaps what might work would be for an experienced, sighted DF player to act as an interface to the interface. This would involve describing the environment, reporting on events, answering queries and interpreting actions. A bit like a D&D GM would, for instance, but using DF as the story engine rather than maps, dice and character sheets.

If we were smart, we could make an effort to record the requests and responsse, with a view to at some point using machine learning techniques to replicate the interpreter. And who doesn't want voice-controlled fortresses!

Obviously the big difficulty is having intepreters generous with their time (probably not that hard actually) and synchronising player and interpreter session times (tougher). An alternative would be to conduct them asynchronously, e.g. via the forum, but you might get a glacial pace then.

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DF General Discussion / Re: Dwarf Fortress for the BLind: Advice sought
« on: February 05, 2018, 09:43:38 am »
You could try getting in touch with Barry Ellis (https://twitter.com/OneSwitch) - he's an expert in computer game accessibility, and a thoroughly nice guy.

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DF General Discussion / Re: The Importance of Prejudice
« on: January 30, 2018, 09:23:21 am »
Quote from: GoblinCookie on January 29, 2018, 10:11:03 am
That is because prejudice happens to be a kind of stupidity.  If you successfully support your pattern of thinking with logic and facts then it stops being prejudice.
Prejudice isn't stupidity, it's an evolutionary necessity.

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DF General Discussion / Re: Future of the Fortress
« on: January 30, 2018, 09:21:14 am »
Just a quickie regarding the last devlog - will the new outdoor construction cleaning include roads?
I have a real problem with newly arrived immigrants spewing green all over my nice shiny marble roads! To the point where I now seek out olivine layers :D

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DF General Discussion / Re: The Importance of Prejudice
« on: January 25, 2018, 10:05:56 am »
Quote from: Paxiecrunchle on January 25, 2018, 12:37:03 am
I forget, has positve prejudice been mentioned here yet, like IDK assuming all elves are wonderful singers or such?
Some genius mentioned it...
Quote from: SmileyMan on November 12, 2017, 11:30:29 am
Don't forget it's possible to have positive prejudices as well - all girls are kind-natured, all men are brave, all French people are great lovers etc.

It's also possible to have personal prejudices based on personal experience that don't come from either the standard 'distrust of difference' regarding physical attributes, or cultural knowledge.

So for a gameplay point of view, you could have:

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initial disposition = sum(physical characteristic * (personal experience + cultural knowledge + differences) for all characteristics)
and so a dwarf who dealt with kind elves regularly would soon have the 'personal experience' overwhelming the cultural and difference factors.

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DF General Discussion / Re: Best portable device for playing DF
« on: January 25, 2018, 10:00:03 am »
I have a quad-i7 desktop replacement laptop. I wouldn't want to actually put it on top of my lap though, and on battery it gets about 45 minutes!!!

Runs DF an absolute treat though...

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DF Announcements / Re: Dwarf Fortress 0.44.04 Released
« on: January 11, 2018, 08:32:21 pm »
You fixed my 8 year old stockpile bug!

Will have a go at the new release tomorrow, looks awesome

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DF General Discussion / Re: Is playing dwarf fortress ethical?
« on: January 05, 2018, 08:34:00 am »
You could view your dwarves as domesticated livestock. Modern cows/sheep/chickens/etc. would die out pretty quickly in the absense of human farmers. They are in essence an artificial lifeform that exists to provide a service to humanity, at the whim of humanity.

Therefore vegans can't ethically abandon a fortress.

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DF General Discussion / Re: A look back - DF 0.21.93.19a, circa August 2006
« on: December 01, 2017, 02:30:33 am »
Quote from: Devast on December 01, 2017, 02:18:27 am
It doesn't still happen?
That's the trouble - like 7x7 cave-ins, no-one puts out a list of un-features that aren't there anymore!!!

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DF General Discussion / Re: What do you look for/need in an embark?
« on: November 30, 2017, 10:34:57 am »
I try to find the edge of an aquifer, so that I can create an underground river. No good reason, I just like doing it!

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