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That would be my hope. There should be less telepathy and more scope for treachery.

Doesn't it depend a bit on having suitable gods willing to curse mortals in the first place? Maybe you didn't get any prickly dieties.

Sounds very gamey to me, but I suppose we all want different things from DF. If you want to delete z levels and have that function called "set explosive" that's cool.

That was so bad it almost worked.

Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked what became known as the Pentagon Papers in 1971 and stayed in the country, explains why he believes Snowden did the right thing in fleeing the US. He also compares what the NSA is doing to the Stasi.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/daniel-ellsberg-nsa-leaker-snowden-made-the-right-call/2013/07/07/0b46d96c-e5b7-11e2-aef3-339619eab080_story.html

I broke out the 4-pen for some colour magic. The writing and numbers coming through from the back of the page add unexpected texturing.



Photobucket is unresponsive for me today so I tried tinypic which turns out to be pretty cool. For some reason I had the impression that it was going to shrink the image but this is 1:1 from the page I scanned.

There should be no alerts, no interruptions, and no judgement by the game of whether a creature qualifies as an enemy.

The game already makes judgements as to whether something is your enemy, Weenog. If it didn't, you'd never be attacked (or always be attacked) and that is not the case. What you're arguing is that the game should never explicitly broadcast whether something is your enemy, and that is debatable.

The game is in ascii and not everyone has perfect vision. A large creature with claws and teeth in front of an adventure might not be as immediately obvious as it should be to a player because it's just another coloured (differently coloured if you're lucky) symbol in a literal forest of coloured symbols. The fact that a green archer is more difficult to notice than a blue axeman is an arbitrary difficulty added by the interface.

Having a toggle option of "prompt me whenever an armed individual enters my field of vision" or even "prompt me whenever a potentially dangerous creature enters my field of vision" doesn't sound unreasonable to me and needn't be condemned as the game holding your hand. In that case the game isn't telling you that something is your enemy, it's just saying "Hey, did you notice this obvious thing?". I think that's the spirit of EHat's suggestion. The challenge should be in defeating your enemies, not noticing them standing right in front of you in the first place (if they are hiding that's something else entirely, I agree). Using an alligator in a river isn't the best example, because they are ambush predators and it's entirely realistic not to notice one. That's their thing.

Explosives make fortifications obsolete. Fortifications are a big part of the game.