March 6, 2024: Dwarf Fortress 50.12 has been released.
News: February 3, 2024: The February '24 Report is up.
News: February 4, 2021: Dwarf Fortress Talk #28 has been posted.
News: November 21, 2018: A new Threetoe story has been posted.
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you've hydrogenated my nuts for the last timeBest break-up line ever.
Men aren't spending half an hour every day making their hair look the perfect "just got out of bed no care in the world" ruffle and giving themselves the perfect mm length shadow stubble, clean shave, or beard prune because it makes themselves feel good. They do it because they want others to think they look good.Counterargument: you live in metrosexual hedonistic consumerist corporate-ruled dystopia. Real men don't wash or shave and gain status by ritualistically beating each other's faces to a pulp.
I'm the kind of person that shuts their PC down every day.See, I thought keeping your computer neat and clean was normal. Hygienic. Like brushing one's teeth.
(...)Something about it functionally being stuck in a filing cabinet as opposed to still sitting on your desk means it ne'er gets touched again, y'know?It's the modern-day equivalent of not ever cleaning your room because I won't be able to find anything, mum.
Congratulations! Try hard even though it hurts!Sounds like an ad for Viagra.
Still, its not like time really matters in the gameIt doesn't, unless you want to complete the story line. But then again, why would anyone want to go through the pain. Better watch a summary on youtube or something.
Because USA deals with a lot of bad people. We all know that dictators are bad, except, well.. when they're kind of OK. Even terrorist have become statesman as their abhorrent ideas and actions are white washed. On the world stage some times you have to work with bad people as the only way to affect positive change and or maintain your interests.An argument can be made that perhaps one shouldn't. That this willingness to make deals with the devil to further your own cause is what's wrong with the world. When it happens on a small scale, one runs a risk of being branded corrupt or a collaborator. But if you're large enough, it's realpolitik.
Roughly half kilometer elevation between Bakhmut river (ostensibly current Russian position per deepstatemap) and Chasiv yar (reportedly Ukraine's artillery's position) so an uphill battel if you pleaseCheck your map again. It's more like 500 feet. >If< you assume the worst possible route of advance. But they already control elevated positions west of Krasna Hora and south of Chasiv Yar.
I suspect that going against fortified positions in the mountains would be as bloody as doing so in Urban terrain.The surrounding terrain is hilly, but it's hardly mountains.
What are the news on Bakhmut strategy, we seem to have some conflicting version from Ukraine?Local analysts think the idea is that keeping the town stalls the Russian offensive from developing further inward, which would let them keep the initiative and hobble Ukrainian preparations for their own offensive. Claims in the news that they're grinding the enemy down seem to hold less water now, that the town is in operational encirclement and losses are closer to equal on both sides. But since it's mainly light infantry doing the fighting, the losses may have been deemed acceptable.
