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Yeah I missed the guy making the manslaughter and adultery mod, and the connexion it has with your post for that matter.
I blame version 50.0 for bringing this kind of degeneracy in the forums and I wish this kind of initiative would stay in the rimworld where they belong.

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We had mermaid-harvesting long before Rimworld rolled around into the mainstream, and definitely before 50.0 showed up — what are you on about? And then there was exiling gay dwarves because they were less likely to find a partner, and for a long time the Hammerer would routinely deal fatal or near-fatal blunt trauma punishments to your dwarves for the simple offence of failing to meet a work order.

Your purism is misplaced, and made ridiculous by context.

Vielleicht irgendwann 

The irony is we're both really tall, so any offspring would not in any way be considered 'Dwarfy Ones.'

Hoffentlich irgendwann!

To the winner goes victory

is that inherently true or not?

I have no interesting text formatting magics, except teletype.

ooh, thank you _{(didn’t know that was a thing)}

someone saw how much Radiohead I’ve been listening to and asked me if I was okay lol

A legitimate list, but I propose a different perspective:

What you list as being the biggest annoyances is one of the most endearing features of the game, IMO.  Just about every other video game gives you ultimate and total control over every aspect of your units.  Units in Dwarf Fortress treat your direct commands as 'strongly suggested'.  Most of the vaunted difficulty of this game springs from this misunderstanding of how your commands will be carried out.  Once you figure out that bit, everything else starts to fall into place.  You are not here to control the dwarves, you are here to prod them in the directions you would like them to go.  Even the message you get in Legends Mode when retiring a fort bears this out: "At [TIME] [GROUP_NAME] of [CIV_NAME] at the settlement of [FORT_NAME] regained their senses after an initial period of questionable judgment."  You, the player, are not a deity in direct control of your thoughtless minions.  You, the player, are the nagging little voice whispering in the collective ears of the dwarves, who are trying like hell just to live their lives and not succumb to the idiotic desire to build a massive magma moat around the fort, replete with self-powered pump-stack magmafalls, for the mist, and then a solid gold throne room underneath with trap doors and pumps, in case the mayor makes too many demands, and then...

I agree in part — this was highly endearing to me for my first dozen or two forts, but it eventually lost a good portion of its charm, especially when it’s for STUFF YOU HAVE TO DO RIGHT NOW, like lofty mentioned; building walls and pulling levers

I can live with the broker taking forever to go to the depot and the station command being next-to-useless but a dwarf eighty z-levels down who was just pumping magma being assigned lever-pulling is an absolute pain, especially when the lever is to pull the bridge up on the only entrance of the fort to stop goblins from getting in

edit:
by the way, lofty, I found your criticism and summary enjoyable and insightful to read, I hope you stick you around

stumbled on Seb Lowe’s music, whose lyricism is just excellent, I cannot overstate how good it is
very much a social issues/critique artist, if you don’t mind that sort of thing, and he does it very well, mixed in with some other more standard emotional stuff
I can’t really pin down a cohesive genre summary, but if I had to it’d go somewhere in the middle of rock

‘Ahh, you were at my side all along… my true mentor… my guiding moonlight.’