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1 & 2.  You probably shouldn't have to draft any dwarves your first year unless you're building your fortress in a hostile area.  You might see a couple of kobold thieves or goblin babysnatchers, but no big attacks.  Personally I only train a single Marksdwarf until I really feel the need for a larger army.

3.  A moat will work against all attackers except flying ones.  I've personally never been attacked by giant eagles or whatever, the vast majority of stuff that will attack you is goblins and kobolds.  If you have a single decent Marksdwarf firing from behind cover (Fortifications, especially elevated Fortifications), he can hold off a dozen goblins with ease.

Personally I like to wall off a large outdoor area, then build a moat around the wall.  This provides you with a good safe zone to cut trees and/or gather herbs without worrying about your workers being attacked.  You can seal your fort off from the outside world entirely.

4.  In my opinion, it really doesn't matter that much.  A wall and/or moat should prevent any invaders from getting to your front door, but if they do, you can always forbid the door, which locks it.  If your fort has a water source and underground farming, you can just leave the door locked and practically nothing can get in.

5.  Under the "Orders" menu, there's an option that can be switched from "Dwarves can go outside" to "Soldiers can go outside" to "Dwarves stay inside".  However, this isn't a perfect solution, because even if they're forbidden from going outside, they will still go a few steps outside to pick up loot, then realize that they're not supposed to be there, so they go back inside.  This usually results in numerous unnecessary deaths in a hail of goblin arrows, so I use a moat/drawbridge (with the lever deep inside, NOT next to the drawbridge) in combination with the "Dwarves stay inside" option.  This DOES work to get woodcutters, herbalists, etc inside quickly if you spot enemies, though.

Hygeine?  Lad, I take a bath once a year whether I need it or na.  Why, just last autumn I was chopping down a tree, and the damned sky started pourin rain all over me!  If ye want yer dwarves to take showers so bad, put a waterfall in yer dinin room so the mist washes em clean, tha's wha our mayor does!

Now as for your medic suggestion, I approve.  Maybe some of our herbalists could use the alchemy or farmers' workshops ta trea wounds and make em heal faster.  I'd like ta think tha once ye get ta Legendary Alchemy skill, maybe ye could even brew somethin tha would let em heal spinal injuries.

Gizmodo has the best one that I've seen.

I want a t-shirt that says "I trust Zack Snyder" on the front and the stained smiley logo on the back.  I haven't seen that preview yet, but I hear that I'm going to at midnight tonight.  Just an hour and a half to go.

With regards to LASD's spoilered text, I'm fine with it.  There's some elements in the comic that won't necessarily fit on the big screen, especially with time constraints.  I'm thinking of the minor characters that were only peripherally-related to the main story.  If there's no Black Freighter in the movie, do we really need the newsdealer and the comic-reading kid?  Stuff like that.

Thanks, Mithaldu.

And, yes, I get made fun of online on a daily basis for having a 56k connection.  It's okay, make all the jokes you want, I deserve it for being stuck in medieval days.

This has probably occurred to you, but is it possible to disconnect it from the Internet when you're not specifically using Internet functions?  If some Russian botnet haxx0r has a keylogger or something installed on your machine, it's not going to hurt you as much if you don't allow it to do anything.

I'm gonna have to agree with the guy that said "chillax".  It causes the opposite of the desired effect when somebody says it to me.  It just immediately fills me with the impulse to explode in a furious orgy of violence like a disgruntled postal worker.

"Yo, dude, chillax."

"No, how about YOU chillax... IN THE BURNING FURNACE OF HELL!"

Favorite?  I've got lots of words I like, but off the top of my head, "hardtack".  It just makes me giggle like Beavis and Butthead every time I hear it said aloud.

"So, Durin, what's for dinner tonight?"

"Well, Bromor, you can choose between plump helmet roast with minced plump helmet, plump helmet biscuits, or hardtack."

"Heh heh.  Hardtack.  Heh heh."

"Yeah, that's what I said, what's so funny?"

"Nothing!  Nothing's funny at all.  Heh heh.  Hardtack."