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Apparently Tennessee is reintroducing cursive writing to its grade school cirriculum, and not to the history cirriculum either. I can't imagine any situation in which a person would need to know this; granted there are still a lot of situations in which people are expected to sign their names in cursive, but if we keep humoring them this outmoded practice will never be phased out (cursive signitures that is, cursive itself has already been phased out most other places). The only time somebody should be learning cursive in school is if they're a college student majoring in history who will need to be reading a lot of old documents.

Quote from: Putnam on June 03, 2015, 03:26:05 pm

why do people think fiction is real

like

they use terminator as an argument against AI

they use jurassic park as an argument against genetics

they're just movies goddamn

Yeah, especially since Jurassic Park wasn't even really about genetics anyway (though it may have been intended to be), it was more about badly designed zoos. It's fundamentally no different from when those people in San Francisco got mauled by tigers that got out of their enclosures

Quote from: SealyStar on May 31, 2015, 05:43:01 pm

Quote from: Bohandas on May 31, 2015, 05:29:20 pm

Apparently Indiana University's rugby coach is named "Sopa Enari". That's a rather unfortunate name. That's like if somebody was named "Fugitiveslaveact Jones" or "Indianremovalact Smith".

Seriously, SOPA was a horrible bill and deserved to die but isn't this comparison a bit like the "nerd blackface" thing people on le Reddit trot out about Big Bang Theory?


It's also just generally a simple combination of syllables that occurs in a lot of languages meaning things like "soup", "sweep", and "it hurts".

Speaking of which... Can someone explain to me why blackface is considered so much worse than any other case in which a person of one race plays a member of a different race, including other cases where the race being portrayed is one that has been historically discriminated against.

Why is it that if I dressed up in blackface people would be extremely offended, but if I dressed up like an asian or a latino then people would be only mildly offended, if at all.

Quote from: utunnels on May 27, 2015, 09:26:17 pm

What if you remove hauling jobs for all but the queen and let her sell tose armor stands?

You know, I've never thought of that, but that could actually work. I mean, she would probably violate her own mandate, but as a queen she can't get convicted. And the platinum statues would deal with the bad thought in no time.
It would be a little bit fiddly with disabling jobs on about 150 non-military dwarves, but what do I have Dwarf Therapist for.
Some of the armor stands are made of platinum though, so I probably can't sell them all in one go.
Oh, and I agree, the battle axes aren't that bad.

Quote from: Avis-Mergulus on May 25, 2015, 05:09:06 pm

Quote from: BlackFlyme on May 25, 2015, 04:56:11 pm

Again, I could write an essay on this, with separate chapters titled "Plot", "Fetishes", "Encounters", "Rules", and probably more.

Do go on, my good sir. A greentext format might be, hmmm, most preferrable, wouldn't you say, old chap?

I don't quite know how I'd be able to sum it up in greentext form, but I could try. I can't imagine it would be all that great though.

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ON the first row of icons, on the far right, is a "change color" Drop box. Either change it then type, or highlight yoru text, then select it.

Heh, shamans. The majority of one of my local newspaper's classifieds are for shamans. Seriously, two-to-three pages for mystics, and only one page for everything else. They all use the same symbols, and sometimes even the same portrait of their "shaman". Either that or one dude has a lot of jobs in the mystic industry.

Thanks for the replies, guys!
So I get that variety is fixed at embark, but to get more of whatever animals are already available, should I buy something and give them a huge profit or just outright "offer" them free stuff. The wiki is vague/uncertain about what "offer" does with other civilizations.

Quote from: SimRobert2001 on May 23, 2015, 12:38:56 am

I looked at my nobles in my town. Something li ke 99% of them are goblins, but when i looked at the civ history, all i get is "Goblin has become a noble in xxxx" There is no mention of a site getting conquered.

Use Legends Viewer or World Viewer.  That tends to make things simpler. 

Odds are good that what happened was that your dwarven civ conquered a goblin site, and dwarvenized the goblins.  Then, because goblins, if they are ever accepted into dwarf or human lands, never starve or die of old age, they tend to take over and build up insane skill levels while they're at it.  Enjoy your legendary lyemaker goblin king of dwarves.