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DF Suggestions / Re: Overhaul Fractional Bars from Melt Object
« on: June 18, 2016, 06:01:29 pm »
Volume?

Bars could be represented in cubic meters of material. Smaller bars could be smelted together into larger ingots, up to a certain limit dependent on material.

Fractional bars, in this sense, would cease to exist. Instead, melting down an object would produce 1/10th the volume of material used to make it, shown as its own bar. Example: Say an iron sword has 30 cm3 of iron in it. Melting that down would produce a 3 cm3 iron bar. You could then order all iron bars smaller than x cm3 to be combined into one (or more) ingot(s) at a maximum of x cm3.

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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: What's going on in your fort?
« on: May 21, 2016, 08:57:39 pm »
Quote from: Random_Dragon on May 21, 2016, 08:05:14 pm
eggplant brutes
What the fuck.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« on: May 14, 2016, 12:43:06 am »
This hit me hard, and I'm not sure who or what to believe right now.

It's a long read, if it matters to you. I just... don't know.

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General Discussion / Re: ♪ The Great Music Thread ♫
« on: May 07, 2016, 06:59:03 pm »
The Second Dream

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« on: May 07, 2016, 12:59:51 am »
Spoiler (click to show/hide)
I'm not sure how many of you were affected by Monty's death, or if anyone here even knows of him, but every day since his passing over a year ago, my thoughts will eventually find their way back to him.

I'm always wishing I could bring him back somehow, even though I know it's not possible. Monty was, is, and always will be a legend, a legend people can follow and one day surpass, but moving forward never felt as hard as today.
I believe that the human spirit is indomitable. If you endeavor to achieve, it will happen given enough resolve. It may not be immediate, and often your greater dreams is something you will not achieve within your own lifetime. The effort you put forth to anything transcends yourself, for there is no futility even in death. -Monty Oum

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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: What's going on in your fort?
« on: May 05, 2016, 10:51:33 am »
At some random point, my entire embark decided to reset itself (all non-open space tiles reverted to what they were on moment of embark), trapping my dwarves within stone walls, but not killing them outright. All 49 of them were trapped in rock.

So, I had to use DFHack to teleport one of the dwarves free, who then proceeded to re-dig the whole fortress, saving everyone from starvation. Also, the bug ended up revealing the entire map, including the Circus. Unfortunately, this bugged out a number of buildings, furniture, and zones, resulting in little being able to get done. I wasn't about to re-place all of my stuff, so I had to abandon the fort after retiring and reclaiming it, which made more problems than fixed.

And so ends the 1 and a half year saga of The End of Time, died to a map reset.

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DF Suggestions / Auto Cut Gems
« on: February 09, 2016, 11:32:34 am »
Why is this not a thing yet? There's literally no reason to not cut every gem you dig up, so why is cutting them so counter intuitive and time consuming?

If this does become a thing, make sure stone and ore don't get cut as well, just gems.

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General Discussion / Re: Does the Internet discourage intellectual discussion and debate?
« on: December 15, 2015, 04:30:49 pm »
Nah, what you're actually talking about it school. School discourages intellectual discussion and debate, the students never learn how to hold an argument in turn, and then they become self-centered bigots with anxiety issues few of them realize they have.

Why do you think most arguments inevitably degrade into festering mounds of hate spittle? No one wants to admit they may be wrong as they obsessively guard their ideals and opinions with fury and abandon. They never learned how to learn, and instead were taught to shoot down and ignore everything that goes against anything they already know.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« on: December 08, 2015, 12:13:55 pm »
"One life... is not a long time..."

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General Discussion / Re: How to fix the country thread discussion: USA
« on: November 24, 2015, 01:12:02 pm »
Ooooh. This looks like fun.

  • First order of business: Remove a zero or two from the military budget. Order all troops to come home. Gradually phase out military presence as a whole.
  • Second order of business: Completely gut the education system and rebuild a new one from scratch, one that actually has legitimate scientific study backing its theories.
  • Third order of business: Officially declare the KKK and similar supremest groups as domestic terrorist organizations.
  • Fourth order of business: Rework copyright laws to protect individuals rather than corporations. DRM and similar consumer restriction practices will lose most of their influence.
  • Fifth order of business: More gun control.
  • Sixth order of business: Stop the U.S jerking itself off like its some long lost holy land. This kind of nationalistic masturbation is unhealthy.
  • Seventh order of business: Further separation of church and state. There's not nearly enough if politicians are flinging Bible quotes at each other; stupid Republicans.
  • Eighth order of business: Encourage people to aid homeless individuals.
All I have so far.

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DF General Discussion / Re: Signs that you play Dwarf fortress (way) too much
« on: November 05, 2015, 11:56:41 am »
2142: This is totally not a Battlefield reference.

2142 for real: You don't have a refrigerator, just barrels everywhere.

2143: People vanish after leaving your property.

2144: You can cook literally anything within 5-seconds.

2145: You can buy anything with the "meals" you cooked yourself.

2146: The walls of your house are full of engravings depicting historical events neither you nor anyone else know about.

2147: You go prone when someone walks through your "square".

2148: You store all of your personal belongings on one "square".

2149: Your house has a Trade Depot.

2150: Trees on your property grow at a ludicrously fast rate.

2151: You bury your deceased pets in above-ground solid platinum sarcophagi.

2152: You get happier when walking by well-made furniture.

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General Discussion / Re: Thoughts on Technological Immortality
« on: November 03, 2015, 01:14:52 pm »
The human brain does not run on binary, does not have software, and is in a state of constant physical change. Your consciousness will never leave your body, brain, and mind because it literally can't.

Digital brains do not physically exist. They are data, and data requires an interpreter in order to be used. All of it is binary software on a static hardware medium.

OP has been playing SOMA.

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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: Force siege?
« on: November 03, 2015, 12:41:58 pm »
Sieges in 40.xx have an actual world source, which requires groups to pathfind toward your land from an already existing civ. Before, sieges literally created the necessary creatures to attack your fort, which could then be forced through DF Hack.

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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: Could someone explain... The thread where we muse over what causes certain wtfs.
« on: October 27, 2015, 12:12:53 pm »
Can someone explain to me why any two creatures cannot stand up while occupying the same tile, but one tile can contain a literal infinite amount of items/objects/creatures, regardless of size?

Why can't I build walls on constructed floors, but I can on smoothed floors?

Why do objects fall through magma pipes unharmed, vanishing once they reach the Semi-molten rock layer?

Why do dwarves refuse to place things in bins/barrels/jugs when hundreds are available and needed in multiple stockpiles?

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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: Bedroom Designs...
« on: October 26, 2015, 08:05:33 pm »
My dwarf quarters used to be 3x3, independent rooms branching off a really long hallway.

Then I saw this image: http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/File:Dwarven_Housing.png

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