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When engraving a memorial slab at the craftsdwarf's workshop, is there any way to determine which units in the list might come back as ghosts and which won't?  Pets and enemies do not return to haunt the living, but often have very similar names to the dwarves in the fort who do.  Most of the time, the deceased can be recovered and entombed, but there are a lot of raising bridges in this fort, and a rather dangerous waterfall that has killed more dwarves than any invasion so far.  All unrecoverable.

If you're in a rush, and want a single 1x1 clean hole with magma in it, just equip the unfortunate miner with a copper pick, and everything will disappear before too long.  I usually just dig a maintenance tunnel and build walls around each magma well location, eventually re-purposing the area into weapons storage or something, so the tunnels don't go unused forever.

I had a dream as I was falling asleep where I was splicing 2 wires together and got shocked.  I immediately jumped awake as my whole body twitched.  It was so soon into the dream, that I sort of still thought I was not yet asleep.  I was obviously shocked to find out that I was indeed already asleep.

A book about Advancements in Badger Training sounds like it would naturally be a Dwarven best seller.  But if I'm not mistaken, advancements in various sorts of animal training are more related to what your animal trainers are doing than your scholars, and won't end up in their books.

I believe in free will because the mind seems to be independent of the body.  When we dream, we have a dream body, and experience dream worlds.  So I think there's much more to us as living beings than just the physical aspect of cells, chemicals, electric energy, etc.  The mind is not a physical thing, and can't be measured.  The brain can, but it's not the mind.  I see it as like a car and a driver.  If the driver were the mind, and invisible, we would still be able to see the pedals and other controls move around, and how that results in the car operating out on the road.  In a similar way, we can see all the chemical / electrical signals and activity in the brain and how they result in movement and emotion, but that's just due to our mind operating our physical body.  We're not actually observing the mind itself.  Recognizing this independence of body and mind, I can choose to act despite emotion, and despite hardship, going against the grain in life.  Or I can do what is easy and familiar.  It very much feels like a choice I consciously make.  I suppose there can be the illusion of conscious choice, but that would imply everything else is similarly an illusion, and so all things being equal, there is still equally valid conscious choice occurring in that illusory world. 

I know not everyone will agree with this, and that's fine.  I just wanted to share why I personally believe in free will.

Actually, my spoiler comment above reminds me
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I wouldn't mind assigning all of my animal dissector migrants to power a fort's machinery, as this facilitate a use for these dwarves. Perhaps even a giant hamster (tame), if such a thing were possible. Apologies if this is more line with a suggestion, but this has actually confused me for a while.

I don't see why someone couldn't pretent pumps are treadmills and have those migrants pump water through some water wheels to generate power for the machinery. 

He self-indicted after just walking in front of the house with the tools? Big brain advice from the sis too.... Aaah I want to cackle except we live in a postfactual age and I can smell dumb bullshit coming from 120 miles away... This should be the perfect trojan horse... If this guy is guilty imagine how much worse it would be to break and enter some official shit... I'm afraid to find out how galaxy brains will twist themselves to "relate" these two incidents together. Not even gonna name the other one.

I suppose he would be guilty of conspiracy to commit an assassination, rather than actual attempted assassination.  Certainly a big difference between the two.  I don't know if there are any penalties for simply planning a crime though.  That borders on the line of a Minority Report sort of dystopia, whereas up until the act has been committed, I think people can come to their senses and change their minds.  It sounds like the presence of the security team was enough of a catalyst for this guy to do that.  But there also seems to be a gray area where the crime has started but was not completed where some sort of consequences would be useful as a deterrent to others.  Like if you shoot at someone and miss, that seems more of a crime than just shooting at a trash can, even if the results are the same.

Will there ever be Randomly generated Martial Arts? Will dwarven children ever play-spar with each other and get combat experience?

I don't know about future plans, but if you're interested in Dwarven fighting techniques, this thread is great:
Kisat Dur: the Dwarven Martial Art

Given the wide array of combat options, I suppose it's in a large part, up to the player to create or follow a particular fighting style.