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Unless you can answer questions of purpose in a post-human value world, then no. I recently was struck with the melancholy. Time will tell if I recover, but I'm only saying that to leave it open to the possibility that I will. I hold no hope in it, except hope that I am disproven in my new worldview.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« on: March 11, 2015, 04:12:45 am »
I know I said I wouldn't, but I have a legitimate sad this time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pq-S557XQU I no longer see the purpose in my life.

Someone talk to me before I do something stupid. I've already stayed up all night and had to face the reality of a very bleak and painful future from the point of view of an already not-so-pleasant present. What is the point of persevering in the face of the futility that I face? As a human, I'm below average in my capabilities and old-fashioned in my reasoning. If even the best are being replaced, then what hope do I have? And without hope, I cannot function. I don't see how anyone could. It's not even as though I am liberated to do something else, it's more akin to being barred from what I want to do and then enslaved by those who won't do it but won't let me do it because they don't want to pay for me to eat. And even the arts aren't safe anymore, so I have reached an all-new level of purposelessness that makes me just wish I were dead. I... I guess I could hold on for my friends' sake, but what's the point in that? I'd spare them a lot of misery to just let them collapse in on themselves and die of their own accord and myself do the same. Someone, anyone, give me a reason why continuing my life on this wretched sphere is even remotely worth it? ( Don't say pleasure, because I have nearly none. And these were mainly rooted in hopes, dreams, and other meaningless escapisms. Now I am left with a life that has only misery, unless someone can find something to give me reason again. I suppose there's the afterlife and all that, but wouldn't I arrive there much more quickly if I took a shortcut? And even if I go to hell, then isn't that just the same as eternal hopelessness? So how would that be any different? )


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squid kick.

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Domovye? What? Why?

Ents could be fun. No civ for them. Could be nice if we can enslave them somehow. Make capturing and exploiting then worthwhile.

What horrors we already have against us? Do we need to make the mountain of murder that's about to fall on our heads any bigger?

E: Actually might be good idea to pool all plans and information into successor thread.
Because.

Yeah.

Yes.

I don't know where the successor thread is or if it even exists yet.

What I know is I'm having a serious crisis of purpose right now...

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Also... TARN TOADY ONE HAS A DOCTORATE!? WHY AM I JUST LEARNING THESE THINGS!?

... Dr. Adams. Nope, probably never going to call him that ever, especially if I want to continue getting his help on my project...

Also, yeah, I'm sorry for turning this into my blog, I'll go away now and get back to work on the things I'm supposed to be doing.

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Me at a buffet

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It just occurred to me that we have a golden opportunity for all new levels of insidious traps, such as gassing our foes with radioactive gas, or submerging our enemies in a flow of radioactive water... I must make haste and read the wiki faster in order to realize this nefariousness!

EDIT: Some preference quesitons:
  • Deadly radioactive Plutonium: Dust or steam?
  • DRP: Self-detonating? ( as IRL Plutonium is apt to do in some scenarios, especially when made uncleanly... )
    • Hafnium, Silver alloy, Xenotime (Ytterbium ore, as refining is unnecessary and possibly even detrimental) or Cobalt control rods? ( Or all three? ) If so, what alloys of silver? ( Hafnium can be used by itself or in conjunction with tin and other materials to create very effective control rods, not that this will probably matter for sake of my mod, also Hafnium, do to its natural scarcity will probably be achieved alchemaically through !!MAGIC!! !!ARCANE SCIENCE!!* )
    • Thorium, Tungsten, Uranium, or [other] excitation rods? ( Or no excitations rods as all as they are a most dangerous product of !!SCIENCE!! IRL, excitations and fission would more likely be provoked with a concentrated alpha emitter, ie these things or other moderately to highly radioactive elements in high concentration, surrounded by a block of lead that has one miniscule aperture facing the fuel which would be either U235 or P239, but such a fine level of distinction is totally unnecessary as, in game mechanics, it's functionally identical- everything being handled by a complex RAW reaction object.)
    • Any language file modifications we want to add?
    • How prevalent do we want the domovye to be?
    • How "advanced" do we want the domovye to be? Entity level, exotic_pet with adopts_owner, or benign wild animal?
    • An interaction in which a dwarf may become a domovoi. ( Because the beard is strong with them both. )
    • Ents - yay/nay?
    • If Ents, then Ent civilization? ( Or are elves enough?)
    • Should I still include Reapers ( when finished ) or scrap the idea and work on giving dwarves radiation poisioning? ( Also, "dwarfs", what? Apparently that's the correct plural but it feels so weird to type that because it changes the pronunciation. )
    • Anything else?

    Also, is anybody else modding?

    *I don't want to have alchemy as fleshed out as in Masterwork or implemented in any "cheaty" way, I just want the alchemy skill to go to use.3

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Thus is Recorded the Word of the Deus, Asmoth.
1] And lo, for the arrogance of the dwarves drew my ire, and I chose an avatar to guide them into the light once more.
2] However, I was displeased by the state of the fortress as it stood and said unto my avatar:
3] "This place is naught but a hole in the ground."
4] And my avatar did agree with me, and said unto the dwarves:
5] "What the hell have you shower of lazy mushrooms suckers been doing?"
6] And the dwarves said unto him:
7] "Wha'?"
8] And my avatar entered into a mighty fury and struck the dwarves, saying:
9] "You idiots are going to build me a decent bedroom before the end of spring, or heads are going to roll."
10] And the dwarves did so.
11] And so it came to pass that my avatar did see that an especially prideful dwarf had build a tomb which could be seen from both near and far, and he said:
12] "I must have a tomb that is still bigger and grander than that of this pretender."
13] And the faithful among the dwarves did agree, for the Deus must have the best of all things.
14] But my avatar knew that this would not be enough to fully shame the pretender, so he said:
15] "And my tomb shall be balanced on top of that of the pretender!"
16] And the faithful among the dwarves did agree joyfully, eager to be a part of this great work.
I feel the strong urge to one-up you and place my bier on the highest z-level, surrounded by traps that will indiscriminately kill all who dare approach it, those preventing it from being [as easily] destroyed.

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Have I been dorfed yet? I'd like my usual please: One Ringo, preferably a gemworker but any profession will do besides those involving butchering, cleaning, and/or hauling corpses. Metalworker is my second preferred profession if you've got it.

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You see, Haven & Hearth has already created a copyright on Digital Hearths and had trademarked HearthlingsTM, which had been intended to be in the game from the beginning. Since some code already existed for them, they were aptly renamed "hearthpeople" and set to randomly spread amongst compatible entities. The hearths themselves could not be added, lest the copyright be violated.

Are the RAW tensile, torque, etc. values in kPa or some other unit? Also how do you put in molar mass for a material?

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Oh god I think it's kilopascals isn't it? I don't tweak the materials too much, just slapped together parts to make a denser candy/steel mix.
kiloPascals? I can do that, the measures on the Wikipedia are in MegaPascals and GigaPascals. ( Though, to be honest, I'm not sure if I should use GigaPascals, seems like it'd be too big. After all, a MegaPascal would already be kiloPascal2, so a GigaPascal would be like kPa4, which seems as though it'd be a larger number than used in the game and RAWs. ) Know any modding people to ask and do you know if you just input molar mass as is or do things to it first?

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I installed Ubuntu and LXDE on my netbook. It was great for a while, and then my wifi stopped working for no reason. The range slowly diminished until I had to have it in the same room as the router, and now it just won't connect even though it can apparently see nearby networks. That's about as much Linux as I'm willing to experience for a while (this is my third install- I've had to redo the installation to fix the same wifi problem before), although I have to admit that it was blazing fast compared to Win7 on the same computer.
...that's one weird ass problem. Sounds like somebody inserted a "fuck you for using Linux" subroutine into wifi software.
Yeah, seems like they did at kernel level too. :p I have the same problem but persistence pays dividends. Not to mention I can always tether to my tablet.

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Well, possession doesn't count as thought, does it? And a creature doesn't need a beard to be possessed, as evidenced by human and elven adventurers.

Why is everything "inevitable" to everyone you meet in adventurer mode?

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Weest

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