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i'm surprised no-one's mentioned the Energy = Mass*(Velocity^2) part of the equation yet.  I..e, the 10lb adamantine hammer moving at 20 m/s is way better than a 40lb hammer that only gets swung at 5m/s. 

Particularly when splitting wood, sometimes a lighter splitter is better than the 12# maul.  The advantage of the maul is that you don't really have to accelerate it -- just start it downwards.  The disadvantage is that even if you really want to swing it faster than 9.8m/s/s, it gets really goddamn hard.

-- not that i want to hijack the thread with physics.  The devnow entry makes me cackle with glee.

i think -redacted- is actually some kind of digging baddie.  Some sort of burrowing something.

Ah, MB.  I was guessing

Do you think any/many core's are getting checked off this time through?

Er, are you sure about that?  It looks pretty green right now.

Last occurrence of "green" as a verb on the dev log is 12/17/2009.  (or "finished", which has one on 1/11 but no note about greening the associated item)

SO BRINGING IT BACK TO THE DWARVES.

*ahem*

right.

I am going to lose it when this release finally makes it out.  Every day i check for the devlog update, like some damn religion, and every day i hit this thread to find it -- well, to find it full of crap, really.  Could we keep it on the dwarves?  The guys with the magma?  Yeah?  Thanks.  Anyway, where was I.  right.

I'm gonna lose it when this game comes out, carpal-tunnel, forgetting-to-eat lose it.  Reviewing the google doc with all the new features made my jaw drop.  I loved DF already, but it was too easy.  Harder underground?  Infinite sieges?  Maybe even digging monsters?!?  Be still my heart.  I was hoping it could come out over xmas so i could play it without losing touch with my life, but that clearly hasn't happened...   I'm hoping it gets out before january is through but i fear it won't be until mid-feb. 

"Happy Valentines Day, G/F!  I'll see you in a few weeks, gaunt and staring!"

So consulting "The List" -- that ostensible subject of this thread -- i see basically three things.

1) Ropes.  Do we care?  can he just release as is?
2) Underground areas isn't greened out yet.  CLOSE ENOUGH ALREADY
3) Everything else.  Cat bug?  two lines  .  Hydra test?  He probably did it already. Compat issues?  Who cares, everyone's gonna upgrade.  Misc bug reports &c...  Which leaves merging with 40d#. .  As a coder myself, I can see this taking a fair bit of time.

If he takes his weekend days at end of january, then... a few days for 1, a few days for 2, a week for 3 and we're in february.  Damn.  Excuse me, i'm gonna go over to a pledge-a-thon thread...

Any other suggestions?  Thoughts?  Reasons to keep hoping it'll actually come out tomorrow?

DF spits out some interesting junk sometimes.  What's your favorite message you've been given?

Here's mine:
"Thob Ulolamost, Engraver, has given birth to a boy."
"Thob Ulolamost, Engraver,  cancels Load Catapult: Seeking infant"
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