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Creative Projects / I wrote a poem.
« on: September 12, 2010, 08:39:41 pm »
The potato is a small, brown, lumpy thing.
No one considers it beautiful.
Nearly everyone considers it good food.

It is a strange affair.
Potatoes are bland and soft.
In any other food, bland is an insult.

I have a friend who is Irish.
He is resembles the potato thusly:
Neither he nor it make much sense.

This sentence lacks poem.
This sentence lacks meter.
It strives to imitate a potato.

Perhaps that is enough.

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DF General Discussion / Dwarf Government
« on: August 30, 2010, 10:56:47 pm »
So, I've been kinda debating this in my mind.

Dwarves draw heavily from Roman/Greek culture (Devotion to stoicism, pillars and statues and angles and stone in their architecture). Traditionally, these cultures both included senates and whatnot.

Dragon Age has a dwarf council where big stubborn dwarves argue endlessly. Dwarves are fairly community-minded, so the urge to go and vote and argue about politics would come naturally to them.

On the other hand, the MOUNTAIN KING is a really dwarven thing too. So I dunno. What do you guys think?

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Creative Projects / REQUEST: Artifact Beard
« on: August 28, 2010, 04:09:16 pm »
I was hoping that some artist more talented than me (Read: Has hand capable of holding a pen/mouse) might be willing to draw a portrait of my (heavily DF influenced) D&D character.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Help! Dwarfs won't plant plump helmets!
« on: June 30, 2010, 05:08:11 am »
It's odd. They have planted pig tails and cave wheat successfully. I have a whole barrel full of plump helmet seeds.

I even saw a dwarf walk to the barrel and take a pig tail seed out and then plant it.

The problem is not that the plot isn't irrigated; the problem isn't that the seeds are inaccessible; they definitely not forbidden...

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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Polite dwarfs
« on: June 29, 2010, 09:20:58 am »
So, I just noticed my fishdwarf with the "Give Water" job and I was like "oh no someone has been injured this is bad"

He then proceeded out into the field, where my thirsty woodcutter was taking a nap, and gave him the water. The woodcutter is no longer thirsty and didn't even wake up.

What a nice fellow!

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DF Bug Reports / Mortal Wound message given wrongly
« on: April 03, 2010, 12:19:29 pm »
A miner hit me in the chest with a pick, and the majority of the blow was absorbed by my armor. However, my heart was "bruised" and I recieved the mortal wound status.

However, I do not appear to be bleeding, and since after recieving the status I proceeded to kill a few dozen more and spend a hundred rounds strangling the goblin general to death (It took an inordinately long time, I think)

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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / where did my food go?
« on: April 02, 2010, 08:19:13 pm »
Built a kitchen. Started cooking booze.

Produced several stacks of 20-40 roasts, just like always.

The caravan arrives.

I go to the trade screen, prepare to trade them roasts. I only have one stack of 20.

Frantically, I search around. The stocks screen says I only have 20.

Did 14 dwarves (I got some migrants in the summer) seriously eat over 100 units of food in half a year? Or are they chowing down on stacks of 40 roasts as if they were 1 unit?

Does this have something to do with "Cancels eat: job item misplaced" messages I get from time to time?


EDIT: On closer inspection, booze roasts now turn back into booze after a brief period of time. In retrospect I suppose that makes perfect sense.

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DF General Discussion / Structures have names?
« on: April 02, 2010, 04:09:13 pm »
Legends mode has a structures list. Did it always have this?

I was just looking through the names of shops.

"The Violent Sparkles" was a mead hall.
"The Citidel of Incineration" was an armor store
"The entangled butters" was a food store
"The Candy Of Justice" was a clothing store
"The Equivalent Nut" was a food store
"The Ponderous Butter of Controlling" was a clothing store
"The outrageous snacks" was a food store
"The Big Rags" was a clothing store
"The Reclusive Muffin" was a clothing store
"The New Cake of Theaters" was a clothing store.

I would drink at the violent sparkles

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Other Games / Escapist Vote-Off
« on: April 02, 2010, 10:40:14 am »
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/global/tournaments/standings/2-2010-March-Mayhem-Developers-Showdown

Big tournament. Currently, it's down to Valve and Zynga. (Zynga is farmville. Valve is half-life, tf2, etc)

Go and vote! For valve!

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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Down is the new right?
« on: April 02, 2010, 07:31:18 am »
So, in the old old dwarf fortress, you always started to the left of a huge mountain, and then mined right. The further right you went, the more nifty features you got.

In the new one, it's all about moving downward.

This *sounds* nifty but I must confess to one question:

Isn't moving between Z levels a huge pain? I mean, if I have a fort spread across three Z-levels I tend to start to get confused and forget where I put workshops.

With, say, six different features each spanning multiple Z levels, I fee like I'm going to wear my < > keys down.

And designating dozens of updown staircases is such a pain.

I love the new features. Caves full of ant-men is really awesome. Magma seas are awesome. Elf Sweetbread is delicious. I know that having all features on all sites is great.

But moving down seems like using the weakest support (Roguelikes ALWAYS struggle with the Z axis) to hold up the biggest roof.

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General Discussion / Repo Man
« on: March 09, 2010, 10:00:00 pm »
I just saw this movie and it was the most movie I ever had

why did no one tell me about this movie

I feel deprived that I have not already had seen this movie


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Life Advice / Met person with crazy family, need advice
« on: March 04, 2010, 06:24:20 am »
So during Science Olympiad today I met this girl and she seemed really depressed and I asked her why and she told me she had completely bombed her event and I was like "Meh event shevent" but she insisted that her parents would be pissed off and disapointed as hell just like they're always pissed off and disapointed as hell. Then an hour later she was still pretty depressed and then she told me that she was actually sad because her dad had died a year ago today and her brother had called her to say that it was entirely her fault and if she had been a better daughter dad would still be alive. She also mentioned that her mother and stepfather agree with her brother. Then it was time for my event (Nerd pictionary. We got 2 words correct, which put us in third place. I drew one of the words (Cytoplasm) and guessed the other. (Genetic Mutation) Go me. Shiny bronze metal). When I got back she was playing cards and seemed cheerful. Then at the end of the day I saw her calling home to say that the awards ceremony was over and she needed to be picked up and hadn't won anything. She said her stepfather had been like "Why did you not place what kind of stupid not-placing idiot are you."

This sounds really bad what do I do.

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Creative Projects / MOVED: Borderlands Let's Play
« on: February 23, 2010, 07:17:52 am »
This topic has been moved to Play With Your Buddies.

http://www.bay12games.com/forum/index.php?topic=49898.0

OOPS WRONG SUBSECTION MY BAD GUYS

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Play With Your Buddies / Borderlands Let's Play
« on: February 21, 2010, 12:03:42 pm »
hey guys I'm making a Let's Play

http://www.youtube.com/user/ShadowArchmagi#p/a/u/0/SOe9DUM7Yrc

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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Help my migrations have stopped
« on: February 21, 2010, 10:49:25 am »
I'm playing as part of the Zombie Master Forums Bloodlines game, and we're in like our twelfth year or so.

Migrants stopped coming a few years ago. Fortress population has reached 23 and stopped. It's been three years since the last immigrant. I just get a message "THE FORTRESS ATTRACTED NO MIGRANTS THIS SEASON."

Normally, migration increases with fort value, but our moody dwarves have pushed that up to 603,000 so I should think SOMEONE would want to come visit.

Any ideas as to what is going wrong?

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