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Messages - Bromor Neckbeard

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DF Gameplay Questions / I want a piano
« on: March 03, 2009, 06:26:53 am »
Quote from: Warlord255
I may be wrong, but if you deconstruct the chain while the animal is there, the animal wanders off with the chain on its neck.

This guy is not wrong.  It's a pain in the ass if your supply of metal or rope is limited in any way, because as far as I can tell, you can't get the chain back until the animal dies.

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DF Gameplay Questions / You got knocked the **** out!
« on: March 03, 2009, 06:23:24 am »
Quote from: Martin
Anyone have a fairly bulletproof formula?

I'd cause a single-tile cave-in and station him two tiles from where the cave-in is going to strike.  If he's only hit by the dust, as tough as he his, he should be KOed without actually taking any wounds.

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DF Gameplay Questions / Mayday 4 lyfe yo play DF every day
« on: March 03, 2009, 06:20:51 am »
I use 40d with Mayday's graphics set.  I've tried 40d9, but the speed increase it provides is minimal on my machine, and I like the 40d set's looks better, plus 3Dwarf doesn't work with 40d9.

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DF Gameplay Questions / Red crops
« on: March 03, 2009, 06:18:36 am »
The most common reason I see red crops is because you harvested all the plants, but did not get the seeds back.  I think you get the seeds from eating the plants, but I know you DO get seeds from brewing and DO NOT get seeds from cooking.

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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: Spirits of fire
« on: March 03, 2009, 06:13:05 am »
I was thinking more along the lines of THIS.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

We are promised that this sort of thing will be fixed in the next release, but we won't be around to see it, so whether it matters is largely academic.

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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / But, but, but, what would the elves think?
« on: March 03, 2009, 06:08:13 am »
My hat's off to you, Rhenaya, this is clear and understandable.  If I'd had had this visual explanation of the principles of breaching an aquifer when I started playing DF, it would have taken me a lot less time to finally manage building a fort on an aquifer.

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General Discussion / Nobody ever believes me
« on: March 03, 2009, 06:05:52 am »
I have read the whole Lord of the Rings.  The event that first caused me to do this was when my family drove from Utah to California when I was 9.  Insterstate roads through the rocky desert are mostly BORING, so I read the Lord of the Rings instead of looking out the window.  It's a trifle dry (just like the terrain we were driving through), but it IS the father of modern fantasy.

One of my greatest achievements is reading the entire LotR trilogy (minus the poetry and appendices) in a 24-hour period.  I don't expect anybody to believe me, but, yeah.

I have NOT been able to get through the Silmarillion, though.  For that matter, I haven't been able to get through the Brothers Karamazov.

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Life Advice / Freedom isn't free
« on: March 03, 2009, 06:00:12 am »
Quote from: Jude on March 02, 2009, 08:01:11 pm
Quote from: Strife26 on March 02, 2009, 03:27:08 pm
I'll contend that without protection all of your 'good works' can't happen.

wat

I'm pretty sure that what he was getting at here was that America was entirely full of "true Christians" who would really "turn the other cheek", as opposed to having a vast majority of Christians like Strife, our enemies (who have no such prohibition against violence) would swarm over the borders and destroy us.  There are those in the world who say, "our religion is the only true way and we will destroy all others" and if we didn't have teenagers riding around in tanks and helicopters, they would in fact "destroy all others".  This would not leave a whole bunch of "true Christians" around to feed the hungry and clothe the poor.

That's what I think Strife was getting at.  Keep in mind that religiously I think Strife is wrong on every point, but from a pragmatic point of view, I agree with him on the necessity for every country to have a military.

Oh, and Sean, apparently Hawk Dude is cool with this.  Since his project is now done, I don't think he minds what happens to the topic.  At least he hasn't posted in the topic recently to tell us to knock it off.

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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / This was always part of the plan, Cog.
« on: March 03, 2009, 05:46:56 am »
I draw out my designs, but only in the most general way.  My current fort is basically a square above and below ground, with a moat with a wall on each side.  It's divided into a 3x3 grid of smaller squares, and each smaller square is used for a particular function.  In square 1 I put the magma forges, in square 2 I put the crafting workshops and craft warehouses, on square 3 I put the living quarters, and so on.  If and when I need more space in a particular section, I expand vertically so that each function of the fort stays within its square, but beyond "this function stays on this ninth of the map", I don't really worry about conforming to a design, I just plunk stuff down as I need it.

So it's got a plan on the macro level, but on the micro level I let it grow organically.

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General Discussion / Re: Amazing nature
« on: March 03, 2009, 05:38:59 am »
Quote from: Duke 2.0
I'm sure we have all seen this one.

Is that the little bastard parasite that crawls in a fish's mouth and attaches to the back of its throat and eats most of the fish's tongue?

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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / The next time somebody asks if you're a God...
« on: March 03, 2009, 05:27:18 am »
Quote from: SirHoneyBadger
You're honestly suggesting that the Universe we currently live in...is the gold version?

I think ours is more like v.96.  It still has some bugs in it.

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Creative Projects / It's like being a moderator but without everybody hating you
« on: March 02, 2009, 03:34:32 am »
I like the fact that we now have a "serious business" subforum.  I'm also glad that we got the ability to lock our own topics.  Now, if we could just get an "ignore user" function, this place would be just about perfect.

*Plays "Farewell to Slavianka*

Wow, thanks, Fishers!

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General Discussion / Arr, matey!
« on: March 01, 2009, 03:07:29 pm »
I can't seem to find the link that Jonathan is talking about.  I can find a link that lets you download "The Audacity of Hope", but it's sure as hell not legal.

I don't like audiobooks much myself because I read much faster than I can listen to a guy talking, but they do have one use for me - Long trips in the car.  I'm gonna give this a listen the next time I go out of town.

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General Discussion / It's spelled "Bromor". "Bromor Neckbeard is stupid".
« on: March 01, 2009, 10:46:37 am »
Actually, Strife, you're the second person that said something.  Me, I've got a thing about leetspeak and chanspeak.  And I would be totally cool with a computer virus that would make a terminator or something crawl out of your computer screen and choke you to death like a sort of cyborg Samara if you posted a comment on YouTube.  Naturally, I think I'm the funniest thing since Bill Hicks, but if I'm actually the funniest thing since Dane Cook, then I need people to tell me so I can knock it off.

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General Discussion / Poll
« on: March 01, 2009, 04:27:29 am »
Apparently there are those who'd rather I didn't change my subject line almost every time I respond to a topic.  Okay, I'm not trying to be disruptive, I'm just trying to make things more interesting, and it amuses me.  But I understand that we've all got to get along, and if it bothers a significant portion of the people who bother to vote, I'll knock it off.

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