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I noticed a lot of changes in interface.txt when I ran WinMerge, what was improved there?

It would help if you posted the diff and verified that your previous interface.txt was a vanilla one.

Oh, Jesus. How about this bug? Since it is quite impossible to play.
 

Not fixed yet, but you can monitor it on the bug tracker.

Just marked fixed on the tracker: 0006854: Pulped body parts don't get severed arteries or functional impairment

Probably means a lot more lethality for blunt weapons.

What does quoting an enum have to do with anything? All I'm saying is that items with qualities and decriptions have to have that information stored somewhere. Which means you need to have things like big arrays of individual objects with those properties, instead of things like "a stack of 4,172 logs" as a single C++ object. This undeniably takes up way more RAM, which can indirectly affect FPS. And more directly, many objects requires resizing vectors at times when stack objects wouldn't, causing more reassignment in general which will affect CPU.

Somebody said above that descriptions aren't generates until you look at something. If true, then that helps a lot. But it only partially helps. Quality is tracked all along, and basic "description" in terms of sub-type (like emu leather versus mule leather etc.) is tracked all along, causing similar issues. I.e., you might have a stack of emu leather that gets stored efficiently, but usually you'd still also have like 15 other kinds of leather, thus making it only very partially efficient in small stacks. At some point, small enough stacks might not even help, because stack management might cause more lag then they give you.

This kind of bitpicking is the essence of premature optimization.  All that to "indirectly" improve FPS?  As always: don't trust your intuition, trust the profiler.

Can't you at least try to do something about the sleeping forever part? Valtams point is that they contribute nothing to the whole adventure mode experience if they sleep forever.

Also, what's up with those two armies that I found that had animals in them? The first one I interpreted as a horse theif type situation, but I have no logical explaination for the second one, which includes the animal recruit thing

I keep trying to click these words but nothing happens?

How do you envision conversation?

Do you mean dwarves having conversations in Fortress Mode?

The movie name is also the PowerGoal name -- Road House.

There is bound to be less fps as each of those calculations need to happen also.

It's rarely this simple.  Most of the calculations that happen in a program do not have a significant impact on its performance.  A small minority of the calculations usually cause most of the problems.  This is especially true in a program like DF that's riddled with bugs known to impact framerate.  Don't trust your intuition, trust the profiler.