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the display is really nice and if you dont use all hard-drive slots there is some free space inside which makes it more comfortable temperature-wise when actually placing it on your lap. as i already mentioned, the ventilation can get notably loud. when using headphones or when youre focused on a game it doesnt really matter but ill warn you none the less. the rest of the machine is nice, well made, looks nice and good stats for the price, at least as far as i understand. especially the display is pretty good. oh and another tiny thing: fn-f3 is mute, fn-f4 is sleep and fn-f5 and fn-f6 are volume control, so mute is not directly next to the volume control for whatever reasons, so if such things annoy you, be warned once again ;P

edit: i failed my roll for basic english

i recently bought myself a new laptop. i checked virtually all laptop offers i could find, read up on a lot of hardware and read a bunch of benchmarks and reviews and this was the one that fit my demands best (with some customisation):
http://www.mysn.eu/xmg-p303 (i actually got it from the german site http://www.mysn.de which is virtually the same and there is a uk-site too with .co.uk and maybe some others)
the fan sometimes gets a little loud but otherwise im really happy with the purchase. i think it has a pretty good price/power ratio so i guess ill recomend it and you can reap the fruits of my hours of sifting through laptops

Is there a designated source of the Eerie light, or not? Is it a quality we could give to a tree or something underground? Or is it to do with the Hidden Fun Stuff?

since he has not reworked the whole lighting code there wont be any kind of light sources, because right now, there isnt much of a lighting code at all. so no glowing mushroom-trees yet. the naming indicates its the lighting state of the circus tent just like "light" when you use k on a tile above ground or "dark" when you k in a tunnel.

How do you expect the maximum map height to be affected by the trees on the map? Will the magical highwoods be able to grow more than 15 z-levels, for example?

i assume they will be handled like constructed towers and therefore trees will most likely be able to grow more than 15 z-levels. some technical complications might come up when a tree tries to instantaneously grow higher than what the current map height is but that depends on the exact code in place for adjusting map-height to the terrain. technicaly the solid tiles of a tree should be no different than those of a mountain or tower.

Are you interested in doing a kind of "Mod Spotlight" for Dwarf Fortress as is done with Kerbal Space Program? An example format can be found on http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/content.php/212-KSP-Weekly-September-03-2013

i doubt toady will do anything like that. while he stated that he is in favour of modding in general he (and a part of the comunity) also probably wont want to take time from working on the actual game. also toady dislikes burdening himself with promises that might be difficult to keep (at least i got that impression, maybe he even said something like that himself at some point, i dont remember).

as for threetoe... i have no idea.

edit: as always, typos, misspellings and grammatical errors

Are there going to be flavors for food like spicy, sweet, etc. with preferences for specific flavors?

probably at some point in the future, but probably not with the next release: an overhaul of the farming and food system is planned, however nothing going in that direction has been mentioned as being worked on with the exception of the addition of some new things like fruit, which dont differ from plump helmets very much, concerning consumption, for the time being. once work on this gets done, realism will, as always, be the main guideline with deviations only when the gameplay profits from them.

please use 'limegreen' and not just 'green'. always read the first post of a thread before replying, that should be common courtesy. (not just you, im not trying to be mean, it just bothers me a lot)

im pretty sure the tarn brothers and many other people, me included, deem more content and bugfixing more important than work on something that doesnt really need work, so i think there wont be any xml stuff in the "near" future. for the far future, toady will probably cook up something else for the raws which is tailored to the game and modding and stuff and therefore superior to a solution that is not custom made. so my conclusion: probably no xml ever.

You know, generally anything to do with the UI has been put on indefinite hold, but frankly it's a little embarrassing how little international support DF offers. It'd be nice, and a great way to increase the audience of potential donators.

yes, it would help increase the amount of donations.
no, its not embarrassing to not care about translations as long as there is an english version. english means there is international support, we live in the 21st century. usually, translations are inferior to the original anyways.

also, the water flow mechanisms right now are severely flawed and obviously need a rework at some point. any argument based on their current state is invalid.

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I'm fine with thrown rocks being potentially lethal to a humanoid. There's a reason stoning was (and in some nasty places, still is) a method of execution. Thrown pebbles, not so much, unless you're adding a sling, slingshot, or other such force multiplier to the equation.
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hm, it might be true that they arent pebbles, but i still think they are far smaller than a brick. judging from the distance you can throw them they fit comfortably in a hand.
_my_ legs dont snap like twigs if you throw something like that at me, im pretty sure about that.

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As for the skull being jammed through the brain, I tend to envision that as a fractured skull fragment being forced into the brain, but that's my human rationalization. To the code and the raws, they're probably just interchangeable layers.
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the way you envision it is probably how it is intended, however, that is not how you die if you get hit by a baseball or a small rock.