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Also, how do people talk to one another? Someone turns their attention to me and I turn into a five-foot ball of nervous tics that refuses to look at them. This even happens with family. The best advice I've ever gotten for dealing with it is "Nervous tics don't exist and you are doing that on purpose."

Best advice I've gotten on it is "Just be yourself." Cliched, but true.

The paraphrased discussion I got this advice from was somewhere along the lines of "Just be yourself and don't worry what other people think. Generally, people will have lower expectations of your social skills than you think they do, because you're a crazy perfectionist who thinks everyone else is just as much of a perfectionist as you are, when in reality people aren't that up tight. You think any mistakes will be instantly noted and written down and you'll be instantly rejected and scorned, when in reality most people are just ok with you talking to them, and these people won't notice or remember any of the mistakes you think are so painfully obvious and terrible." Not the absolute exact wording but hopefully it gets the point across, most people aren't making excessive notes of every little thing you do wrong while talking to them.

So yeah, just be casual and be yourself and stuff. You'll get the hang of it or something.

Hammerflickered managed to wall in the breach before the demons reached the inhabited levels. The only casualties of the swarm was a stupid swordsdwarf who ran down there to "pickup equipment" despite the fact he should've been assigned steel armor rather than the bronze armor he was wearing and running down to retrieve. Why he decided to get the armor just now, when he had months to do so before hand, and now when he was literally removed from the squad and all items in the third caverns was forbidden, is a reason unknown. Probably because he's an idiot.

The rush of demons was slowed due to a couple doors I had placed in the caverns as well as a group of plump helmet men standing near the spire when the demons came up. A bunch of demons are now fighting the plump helmet men, who seem to take no damage from anything the demons throw at them. Everything glances away. Additionally, the FB spike trap has caught the attention of the demons. Many of them are just standing on top of one another staring at the artifact cabinet bait. They're out of range of the spikes, but at least they're distracted.

Probably gonna start a massive military enlisting to train and fight the demons back. It's ~100 demons made of inorganics like salt, ice, and steam, so they should be fairly brittle. I've got enough candy for hopefully armoring my 14 primary melee dwarves, and probably enough bronze for all the recruits.

The magma wouldn't kill the undead by itself anyway, it'd just light them on fire. If the undead got hit by marksdwarf shots or something enough to make the undead collapse while submerged in magma, the corpse would be incinerated. Just the magma wouldn't be enough though to kill any reanimated undead though.

You could try atom smashers. Wouldn't work on large zombies like forgotten beasts and titans, but it could clear all the goblins and dead migrants.

Magma does flow off the edge of the map, right?

Probably, yeah. You could wall off the map edge, although that might be difficult if your caverns is full of anything deadly that you're trying to melt in magma.

Wait....hold on...

There really is a Dwarf Fortress update? I...I always thought it was some sort of Forum joke!

It's real? It's coming out? Wow.

Toady actually wanted to release it July 1st but he decided there was still too many bugs.

Let us maintain our chillaxed composure.

Yay.

Only a couple more weeks 'till the bugsfree release.

Fortress Mode, here I co-ome!

b-but, adventure mode. Non human sites will actually exist. Mountain homes will exist and have roads and underground tunnels connecting them to one another. Adventure! So much world! So much adventure!

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Checkmate, atheists.

Confiscate bibles, make bulletproof vests!

Pass new law outlawing flag burning, make firefighting suits out of flags, arrest fire.

Pass new law outlawing law enforcement, police arrest themselves, then arrest themselves for arresting themselves.