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Finally... => General Discussion => Topic started by: Aqizzar on August 17, 2009, 04:16:25 am
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Peril I say! Peril most dire!
Seismologists warn of possible super-huge earthquake right under the Tarn Household! (http://www.mercurynews.com/nationworld/ci_13132256)
I hope you guys, and anyone else living in the area, have plans for this kind of thing.
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We shall plant nukes inside the fault line and cause it to not quake.
There is no flaw in this plan.
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Tarn Adams: Ah! Finally! Dwarf Fortress 1.0 is finished! Now all I have to do is upload it to the internet and my patient, loyal fans will have what they've been waiting for all these years!
*Earthquake*
Tarn Adams: OH NO! The earth is opening up! NO! My computer with all my years of hard work has fallen into a fissure! Now all my work belongs to the Morlocks. Brother!
Zachary Adams: What is it oh woeful brother of mine?
Tarn Adams: We will venture forth into the earth and defeat the Morlocks and get my harddrive back, for GREAT JUSTICE!
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This is arguably the worst thing to have come out of my head in a while
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This is arguably the worst thing to have come out of my head in a while
What are you talking about? I'd pay to see/read that! XD
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If that's the worst thing, I'd pay in blood (someone elses of course) to see the best.
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Now I feel tempted to write this long, encompassing fan fiction named "Toady Fights the Morlocks" just for the humor value involved.
Also, Earthquake, that's important too.
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Make sure you include the part where we all swear our allegiance, arms, and lives to the name Adams and descend into the Earth with them, only to be slaughtered by foul creatures from the Hollow Core.
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This is all hypothetical, of course?
Obviously, DF 1.0 would be able to transend mere machinery and travel the world, a flying string of code, bringing joy to those with computers powerful enough to reshape the world with a click of the mouse, because I can't think of any other computer that could run it.
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Okay then. We'll need to find the fault line and get some duct tape . . .
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Okay, It's the Juan de Fuca plate going beneath the North American plate, so Island County (Washington) is gonna be flooded good.
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No! Toady calls in the legion of indoctrinated fans who will risk heaven and hell to see 1.0. When they finally reach the computer, a miniature civilization has begun around it, a whole society were each person is represented by a dwarf and does what the game err God tells them to do.
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Damn, and I'm visiting Seattle this week.
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What's unique about the deep tremors, which occur in an area stretching roughly from Olympia, Wash., to Canada's Vancouver Island, is that they reappear about every 15 months.
Bolded for where I live. They've been saying we're overdue for this quake for decades, though, at least over here. I fail to see what the "new data" is, unless it's that it's likely to be centered directly under Seattle instead of slightly off coast as they'd previously thought (which is sort of how it's worded). Even though, either way, Seattle would be super fucked if it happened.
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I bring good news! Today I had the opportunity to have a brief discussion with Steve Malone (one of the seismologists quoted in the article), and he seemed relatively unconcerned with the pending destruction of the city. Possibly because this "news" is really really old, and all of this is media hype. Although most of us probably had that figured.
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I didn't read the article, but I assume they're talking about the Cascadia Subduction Zone.
They've been talking about "the big one" around here since I was a kid. I've been through a few comparatively minor earthquakes (The first was during my 10th birthday party - that was fun) I'm not really afraid of it. It's been ~300 years since the last one and they return every 300-600 years, so one might come in my lifetime.
A 100 foot tall Tsumani sounds intimidating until you realize that you live on top of a ~450 foot tall hill
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I experienced an earthquake once, nothing happened.
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Seattlite speaking.
I'm not too worried. Obviously, a 9.0 earthquake is going to mean refugees and chaos. But it's not the same as it would be in a lot of other places; the building codes here are really strict. We had a 4.something in 2001 and most people were back to their lives the next day. Less a couple years ago meant minor structural damage for people who were effected at all. Besides, my house is in converted swamplands anyway.
Oh, and if you're visiting, get the huge donuts in Pike Place market.
Lastly, when you refer to them as 'the Adams brothers' the Adams Family theme song immediately creeps into my head...
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I don't think comparing a 4.0 to 9.0 is very reassuring. The scale is logarithmic, not linear. That giant tsunami in Indonesia that fucked up the entire Indian Ocean? That was an 8.5. 9.0 has 5 times the energy of that.
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I sleep through 4.5's. 5.0 - I noticed the trembling. 6.0+ Scary as hell. Thank god I don't live on the coast. I do live near it - but on the otherside of a hill range (rather large hills).
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Seattlite speaking.
I'm not too worried. Obviously, a 9.0 earthquake is going to mean refugees and chaos. But it's not the same as it would be in a lot of other places; the building codes here are really strict. We had a 4.something in 2001 and most people were back to their lives the next day. Less a couple years ago meant minor structural damage for people who were effected at all. Besides, my house is in converted swamplands anyway.
Oh, and if you're visiting, get the huge donuts in Pike Place market.
Lastly, when you refer to them as 'the Adams brothers' the Adams Family theme song immediately creeps into my head...
Are you referring to the Nisqually Quake (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_Nisqually_earthquake)? That was a 6.8, which is much bigger than a 4. Still, I was riding a motorcycle with my father when it happened, and we didn't even feel it. :P
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A 9.0 is probably going to punch building safety protocol in the groin and sleep with its mother. That's some serious earthquake right there. I hope Toady isn't eaten by the earth.
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Yes, I realize 9.0 is a fuckload. Still, this is a well-prepared zone. If nothing else, Obama will won't want to like like Bush when he dealt with Katrina. :)
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Well I would gladly take up arms and join the Adams brothers fighting in the pits of hell to get DF v1.0.
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When the earthquake hits, it'll be coming in a wave, as it reaches the adams residence, the two brothers, who are standing outside, clasp a warhammer together. The wave retreats. Into Crossbow range.
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Theirs is the hammer that will pierce the heavens.
I was mucking around on a beach when I felt my first earthquake. It knocked me flat. It was something about a 4.0 as well, I believe.
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Man, I can barely remember it, but I was playing in my sandbox in Wellington at the age of 3, I think. My mom rushes outside and screams
"Jack O'Mally, age 265 currently residing on Mars!" Or something to that effect. "Are you okay?"
How is it I barely noticed a 2.5? Seriously, the fridge was halfway across the freaking room.
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Maybe it has something to do with epicenters or seismic waves or some other gobbledy-gook.
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All I know is that afterwards I spent ten minutes crouched under a doorway to make my mom calm down.
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Must have been annoying.
Anyways, should the earthquake happen, we all know that, as in Katrina, where thousands of volunteers flocked to their favorite places and reopened them within months, we must do the same in order to ensure the coming of our Holy Grail.
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Ha, you guys and your earthquakes. There are technically earthquakes where I live, but I've never felt a real one, just very slight shudders in the ground occasionally. Even those make the news though, and everyone's like "ololol i survived the ohio earfquake im so funy"
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Man, living in Michigan sucks even more now. We never get hit by natural disasters! Ever! It's so boring!
A shudder every now and then would spice things up, but we don't get any...
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Man, living in Michigan sucks even more now. We never get hit by natural disasters! Ever! It's so boring!
A shudder every now and then would spice things up, but we don't get any...
I know your pain buddy. The general DC and Maryland area gets nothing. No tectonic plates, a column of rising hot air drives away all storms and all the famous people go to New York.
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Man, I can barely remember it, but I was playing in my sandbox in Wellington at the age of 3, I think. My mom rushes outside and screams
"Jack O'Mally, age 265 currently residing on Mars!" Or something to that effect. "Are you okay?"
How is it I barely noticed a 2.5? Seriously, the fridge was halfway across the freaking room.
2.5 earthquakes occur all the time and tend to do very little damage. Did you really mean 2.5, or was this one unusual?
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I believe, the standard procedure is to mount your refrigerator to the wall, in the same manner as a top-heavy bookshelf...
Anyway, I've slept through earthquakes that made the news. Maybe it's a gene or something. ;)
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Living on a fault line could be fun.
The thought that, any day now, the plates could shift...
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All I know is that afterwards I spent ten minutes crouched under a doorway to make my mom calm down.
They last like maybe 1 minute. 3 minutes tops in case of an aftershock (or the first wave being a foreshock). Oh and, If is one of the larger one 7+, the doorway isn't going to protect you.
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All I know is that afterwards I spent ten minutes crouched under a doorway to make my mom calm down.
They last like maybe 1 minute. 3 minutes tops in case of an aftershock (or the first wave being a foreshock). Oh and, If is one of the larger one 7+, the doorway isn't going to protect you.
At 7+, nothing short of having a safe room will save you. the doorway is your best bet when there is nothing better around.
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I live in california, to much fire, and earthquakes, and the possibility of a volcano erupting from one of our mountains and L.A. might get hit with a huge earthquake.
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I think your best best is a soil area with minimal structures, trees and underground stuff.
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Man, I can barely remember it, but I was playing in my sandbox in Wellington at the age of 3, I think. My mom rushes outside and screams
"Jack O'Mally, age 265 currently residing on Mars!" Or something to that effect. "Are you okay?"
How is it I barely noticed a 2.5? Seriously, the fridge was halfway across the freaking room.
2.5 earthquakes occur all the time and tend to do very little damage. Did you really mean 2.5, or was this one unusual?
Actually I was guessing. Whatever it was, I think it freaked my mom out pretty badly and I didn't feel a thing.
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The effects of an earthquake can be greatly exaggerated if you're on the second floor of a rickety house. What you might barely notice outside might seem huge from the attic. Not to presume anything about your state of affairs, but if you're living in a very poorly maintained building or shotgun house with little foundation, that would do it.
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Considering a large percentage of houses in Wellington are built into the side of enormous hills, that's pretty likely.
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Toady, send me the source code so I can keep it safe in case everything around where you live is destroyed. As completely programming-illiterate, I couldn't do anything with it besides stare in awe at the matrix-like nonsense because it's the source code to Dwarf Fortress.
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Of course he'll survive.
And then he'll be the Road Warrior.
And then when he rebuilds society, he'll make a game about it.
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Wonder what the forum would be like. Changes, I'll bet.
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No! said forum. I have to kill the raiders!
No forum, you are the raider.
And then forum was a post apocalyptic biker.
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Toady could save any potential damage to his magnum opus by simply backing up all his work on some cd's, and then storing them in a bank's safety deposit box someplace across state lines, far away from the fault line. The only problem with this idea would be that he'd need to repeat this every so often in order for his data to remain up-to-date.
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Toady could save any potential damage to his magnum opus by simply backing up all his work on some cd's, and then storing them in a bank's safety deposit box someplace across state lines, far away from the fault line. The only problem with this idea would be that he'd need to repeat this every so often in order for his data to remain up-to-date.
He's said before that he has physical backups in remote locations.
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He's said before that he has physical backups in remote locations.
Seriously?
Though I wouldn't expect any more, given what we know of him.
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This may be a stupid question, but there ARE regular backups of the code to other machines, preferably occasional off-site backups as well, right?
Yeah, frequent backups, located here and there.
I think he said elsewhere that he shouldn't lose more than a week (of work) even if his apartment burns down or whatever. But yeah, that might have changed depending on how often he gets to move backups to other locations.
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Man, living in Michigan sucks even more now. We never get hit by natural disasters! Ever! It's so boring!
A shudder every now and then would spice things up, but we don't get any...
I know your pain buddy. The general DC and Maryland area gets nothing. No tectonic plates, a column of rising hot air drives away all storms and all the famous people go to New York.
Actually, you guys had that heavy snow February '08 (or at least in Virginia we did) where school was cancelled for a while. It was pretty awesome, but I may have a biased opinion as it was probably only the fifth time I've seen snow, and that was the most I've seen in a while.
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WE MUST SACRIFICE BLOOD TO THE EARTH GODS IN ORDER TO APPEASE THEM AND END THEIR RAGE
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We (Michigan) actually had a tornado not to long ago, and there are the occasional blizzards.
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We (Michigan) actually had a tornado not to long ago, and there are the occasional blizzards.
PSHT! Those tornados never hurt anything. It's like "OH! A Tornado! We'd best flee for our lives!" and then we flee, and then we come back only to find that the tornado took one look at us and decided to just flounder about in the stratosphere than come down and actually hurt someone.
The blizzards are the only things actually coming close to being any fun. They don't come around as often as I'd like, but when they do, they throw snow down with such density that you can't see 5 ft in front of you. The roads are covered in snow despite it constantly being moved out of the way, and along with the snow, so do granules of ice so sharp and whirling about so quickly that exposed skin will be left raw for days afterward.
It's unfortunate that the very worst that they do is occasionally down a power line or send some trucker off the road. Otherwise all they do is provide business for the THRONGS Of snow sweepers, snow shovellers, snow throwers, and snow mobile salesman.
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Otherwise all they do is provide business for the THRONGS Of snow sweepers, snow shovellers, snow throwers, and snow mobile salesman.
Even nature deems it necesary to provide economic stimulous.
Down in the UAE, the worst you can get are flash floods and earthquakes, which seem to happen whenever we are away. If a flash flood happens on a school day, then you get a rainday, or so my older sister tells me. We had snow once too.
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Here in England, we're essentially disaster proof. Our climate is just too temperate to really cause any damage apart from the occasional flood. On top of that, very few poisonous animals and few large dangerous animals.
Until England get struck with the EUROPE COLDING and merge with Europe proper.
Hahaha
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